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2014

Fil des billets

Share your opinion with your classmates.

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Ellis Island interactive tour

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 Enjoy the virtual visit !






 http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/tour/


Andy Warhol's mini-bio

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TASK 2_Designing the exhibition's poster _2

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Explore this wall to see the selection of paintings you can choose from to create your poster. Once you have chosen it, you will have to be ready to justify your choice to the class. You will have to describe certain parts of the painting, as you justify your choice. Remember that the painting is only one part of the poster. Think of the text and title that you may want to add.

TASK 3_selecting the multimedia documents for the exhibition

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Your group has to select multimedia documents to include in the exhibition. Those documents are here to help visitors gain a better undertsanding of the exhibition and of Pop Art.
They can be audio, video documents or could be links to an interesting webpages. You,may also want to broaden the exploration of Pop art beyond paintings and explore other forms of art.
To present your selection, you will use "padlet", a tool that will make your presentation look attractive. ( http://padlet.com/)
All you need to get to work in the attached documents.
First of all, you will have to organise your groupwork, each member working on a part of the sources.
Here are some linkd to explore :

TASK 4_Reviewing the exhibition in TIME magazine

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 In order to write a review of the exhibition, you will have to :

- explore the section on Pop Art to get general information about this art movement,
- have a look at the paintings on show ( see the interactive wall)
- go through the help sheet "how to write an art review",
- write an article about 200-250 words.

Marilyn Monroe, 1962

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Observe this famous Wahrol's painting, entitled Marilyn Monroe, 1962 and then use the guidelines in the attached document to build up your analysis.

Pronunciations of [a]

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Here is the list of words you are going to hear.
Listen to the list and repeat the words.
Complete the grid handed out in class.



gap- affluent - famous - walk- places - savings - watch 

- popular - matter - any - wanted - make - wander -

 market - calm - warned - negative - activity - quality -

 suitable

Recording an audioguide

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After our visit to the Centre Pompidou, you will have to record your own audioguide.

In the attached document below, you will find a copy of the handout that I'll give you on Monday, 4th Nov. In the document, you will find some guideline to do your task.

Here, you can also listen to a real audioguide and get some inspiration !


The Velvet underground's tribute to Warhol

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Lou Reed & John Cale with their band the Velvet Underground, were greatly helped by Andy Warhol. He virtually launched them onto the musical scene. The band performed at the famous Factory, Warhol's headquarters, which was the artistic place to be mid-1960's.

When Warhol died in 1987, Reed & Cale composed a tribute album "Songs for Drella". Drella was the nickname given to Warhol by a friend of his and is the contraction of Dracula and Cindarella.

 You can listen to the album here : 15 songs (with French subtitles) dedicated to Andy Warhol.


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