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décembre 2014

Melany's story "The Choice"

dans la catégorie Literature

I am ready. I waited for that day during my all life and here i am. I take my conditioned behaviour and i mixe up myself to  the people in the street. He send me the adress: it is quite close so i have to walk. During my life, i learned to imitate condioned people, since i learned my particularity. They tried on me but it didn't work. I am lucky but now i have to help babies like i was to have the life they want.

I arrive at the adress. This building look like the others but i can guess the inside is not like the others. I knock and then i waited. I ear some noise behind te door and someone open it. He is like i always imagine him: old, tall, just like a leader. He invites me in and talks to me directly: he wants me to enter in the school of the capital with the students visitors. He tells me that the director has something that he wants  and my mission is to pick up that thing. He doesn't want to tell me what it is but i understand: i'm the new guy. He packs me some things and this is it: i am a resistant.


Writing workshop. Lola's story

dans la catégorie Literature

      Big brother was like every day, in his chair with his beer and his pizza, he was watching peoples through the TV. I can't supported his behaviors, every week, every hour, every minute of my life, I am disgusted of him and his actions, I want to kill him, burn him or dismember him to give all the parts of his body at the families which he has destroyed. But I have to wait some days and after, I will become an happy widowed. There are so many years I wait this moment. But if that fails..... *voice in her head* :
'Oh nooo Elena, you can't imagine that ! You have to do it.. for you and for the society, come on Elena !'
Oh my god I am absolutely agree with myself... Oh no I don't know !! What I have to do ? And if all I think I know was just an accumulation of illusions, if the world was nothing and me I was just a little part of this nothingness. I am lost in my mind and in this incomprehensible world. *voice in her head* :
'Don't worry Elena, everything is goooood, you are a strong women ! And if you want to do something, you can do it, and you have to do it. So, kill your husband Big Bro.'


Writing workshop 1L- Caroline's story

dans la catégorie Literature

  I took my time of surveillance three hours ago. I have got nine screens to shake at the same time, but the town is still calm where my cameras are. So annoying a job. I am yearning for someone to do something wrong, anything which must be suspect and let me alarm the Thought Police. Even when we make mistakes, we are not punished and have the fun to see an inhabitant arrested. That might seem cruel, but we are all alone, can not laugh or have hopes : we will do the same things, see the same people all our life; we learn to not care about people we are watching.

  An other hour has passed. George used the alarm once, because of two persons who looked a little to close. Those are the rules : whenever people are too friendly with each other, whenever someone seems to be thinking too much, we have to call the Thought Police. That time, both were married and really astonished to be checked in public; but sometimes, we find some rebel.

  A man has been daydreaming at his window for three minutes. Two more and I will ring the alarm. He moves : bad luck for me. I continue my work. Damn boring day!


Regulating designer babies

dans la catégorie Genetics

HOMEWORK TS

Do you believe the pratice of designing babies should be allowed? In which context?

Answer in a comment (10/15 lines). 

Remember: if you mention a hypothetical situation, you should use WOULD / COULD / MIGHT (more in your copybook)

We will select a few answers in class and proceed to a correction


Speed debating: Reality shows, American culture and its reach worldwide.

dans la catégorie Media


ONLY FOR THE 1ereS3 and 4 !!!! (There is a previous post for 1S5)


 Here are the topics you debated on in class. Write a 15-line essay on your assigned topic and post it as a comment. Make sure to leave your name and your topic number.

Topic #1

Reality TV shows largely contribute to the social and economical evolution of a society.

Discuss and base your arguments on specific examples.

Topic #2

Do you believe that a show such as Teen Mom could be as successful in France as in the US?

Why ? Why not ?

Can you think of successful shows that could never work in other countries ?

Topic #3

“Reality shows” do not really exist. The mere observation of people change their behavior.

Discuss

Topic #4

Do media shape culture or merely reflect it ?

Topic #5


Most reality shows are sending the wrong message to youth as well as adults today .

Discuss

Topic #6

  Fact: Most TV shows are imported from the US.

Do you believe that this fact contributes to the Americanization of other societies ?


What did you think of that book?

dans la catégorie Literature

Express your thoughts with precision!

Here are words you can use to give your opinion on a piece of creative writing or a novel.


AUSTRALIA: The teacher's true or false

dans la catégorie Australia

Can you get a perfect score?

Click on the image to play the game.


South Africa vs. America

dans la catégorie The Daily Show


Speed debating: Reality shows, American culture and its reach worldwide.

dans la catégorie Media

ONLY FOR THE 1ereS5!!!!


 Here are the topics you debated on in class. Write a 15-line essay on your assigned topic and post it as a comment. Make sure to leave your name and your topic number.

Topic #1

Reality TV shows largely contribute to the social and economical evolution of a society.

Discuss and base your arguments on specific examples.

Topic #2

Do you believe that a show such as Teen Mom could be as successful in France as in the US?

Why ? Why not ?

Can you think of successful shows that could never work in other countries ?

Topic #3

“Reality shows” do not really exist. The mere observation of people change their behavior.

Discuss

Topic #4

Do media shape culture or merely reflect it ?

Topic #5


Most reality shows are sending the wrong message to youth as well as adults today .

Discuss

Topic #6

TV shows tend to reflect our lifestyles and culture.

How can this be true as most of those shows are imported from the US ?

Do you believe they contribute to the Americanization of other societies ?

Discuss.


Gattaca's alternate ending

dans la catégorie Genetics

Do you believe that we should allow designing babies for medical purposes?


England Has Avoided Eric Garners and Michael Browns by Doing What the U.S. Won't

dans la catégorie Activism

Go read this acticle on the following website, it offers an explaination on the US judicial system and why the officer who killed Mikael Brown was not indicted.

http://mic.com/articles/105964/england-has-avoided-eric-garners-and-michael-browns-by-doing-what-the-u-s-won-t?utm_source=huffpost&utm_medium=social


The New Yorker's cover, Dec 8th

dans la catégorie Activism

The New Yorker cover for the Dec. 8 issue references the grand jury decision not to indict Ferguson, Missouri, cop Darren Wilson.

Research: What monument is represented? Where is it located? 

Think: What message is the editorial team trying to convey?