a few streets away /property taxes/ to have access to/ extracurricular activities/to fund/how come ?/to grow up/neighbo(u)r/slavery/to solve/to require/to improve/ neighbo(u)rhood/district/AfricanAmerican/underpaid/overcrowded/Tutor/ the Civil War/opportunities for success/

to block from/decades/to divide/to own a home/investment/insurance companies/to deny loans/a handful of universities/top/to get a college education/ really scarce/to build wealth/to prevent(them) from getting a college education/a low-interest loan/a wealth of opportunities/

real estate market/investigation/low-income/middle-income/to lend/to inherit/home values/

implicit bias/ prejudices/to inherit/not to be aware, to be unaware/to manage to/against all odds/to graduate/resume/White sounding name/twice/callbacks/areas of life/unemployment rates/area of life/evidence/incarceration rates/ disparities of wealth/political representation/

challenge/unfortunately/solve/single person/slavery/to acknowledge/to support/Jim Crow laws/to affect/to support/to increase school funding/to require/to make better/equal opportunities/

Vocabulary game#1

Vocabulary game#2

2 Complete the sentences (use the future). Utilisez le futur pour compléter les phrases.

If you come from a white family,..

If you come from a poor African American district, your school…

If your family lives in a redlined district, banks…

If your name sounds black, your resume….

If you are Black, the incarceration rate …

If you acknowledge your prejudices,…

If school fundings do not depend on property taxes anymore,

If everybody changes their attitude, we ..

SAY THEIR NAMES by Kadir Nelson

WRITE AN INTRODUCTION :

1 What is the title of the document ?Game#1

2 Who created it ?Game#2

3 When was it published ? Game#3

4 What is the question ? Game#4

DESCRIBE THE PICTURE :

MLK AND HIS HERITAGE, HIS BIOGRAPHY

Passive /active form MLK

His biography

STRUCTURE DU PASSIF : Be+participe passé

Présent : He is incarcerated

He is being interviewed

Simple past : He was arrested. They were monitored

Present perfect : He has been asked..They have been told

Past perfect : They had been stolen

Passive/active #1

Passive form tenses#2

The Passive form#Donald Trump

Source pour les informations de l’exercice 2

Let’s Go to the Movies

Game#1

Game#2

Game#3

GAME#4 : object pronouns

Game#5 : object pronouns

CONSENT/ABUSE

Black Lives Matter

Discover the June 22 2020 New Yorker cover about George Floyd and read about black victims

Build a vocabulary list about violence and justice :

accuser de meurtre/ accuser/arrêter/assassiner/ battre, tabasser/bombarder, tuer par bombe/ commettre un meurtre/condamner à la prison/ condamner/lyncher/menacer/tuer par balle/

Learn the vocabulary of justice

The simple past passive or the present perfect passive :

simple past passive : il y a une date, et l’histoire est terminée. Be au simple past + participe passé
present perfect passive : l’histoire est en cours, elle est toujours vraie, elle n’a pas de conclusion au moment où je parle. Have au présent + been + participe passé

Choisissez la forme qui convient : Attention, il y a aussi des formes actives…. Réfléchissez au sens des mots.

Entraînez-vous ici :

Reprenez les phrases et complétez-les ici :

1 MLK ________ in Memphis, Tennessee, 1963 (to assassinate)

2 Malcolm X _______ his own biography (to write)

3 Some scholars _______ the graves of enslaved people by looking for periwinkle ( a blue flower used in cemeteries). ( to find)

4 George Floyd _______ by a policeman in Minneapolis on May 20, 2020. The policeman ___________. He _________ with murder. (to kill/to fire/to charge)

5 David McAtee _________ by the police on June 1st 2020 (to shoot)

6 Rodney King ________ by four policemen in 1991. The action________ by a witness. None of the policemen________ in California. (to beat/to film/to convict)

7 Emmet Till _____ by two men in Mississippi in 1955. The men_______not guilty ( to lynch/to find)

8 Hundreds of people _____ from Selma, Alabama, in 1965. A 25 year old activist______ . Dozens ______ by the police. The Voting Rights Act________ that year. ( to march/to die/to injure/to pass).

Kadir Nelson, Once Upon a Time in the City of Angels.

Key (solutions): 1 was assassinated 2 wrote 3 found 4 was killed/was fired/has been charged with 5 was shot 6 was beaten /was filmed/was convicted 7 was lynched /were found 8 marched/died/were injured/was passed

I HAVE A DREAM : listen to the speech