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In Flanders Fields 1915
World War I poem
http://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-41759999/world-war-one-poem-spelt-out-in-poppies
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-34784719
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6BlOkpdkg8[/youtube]
http://lewebpedagogique.com/erasme/2012/05/12/in-flanders-fields/
http://www.greatwar.co.uk/poems/john-mccrae-in-flanders-fields.htm
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-28654710
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead.
Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If yOU break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/13847223
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If you break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
Dans les champs de Flandre, les coquelicots fleurissent
entre les rangées de croix qui marquent notre place
Et dans le ciel, malgré le rugissement des canons
L’on perçoit encore le chant des courageuses alouettes.
Nous sommes les Morts et pourtant quelques jours auparavant
Nous regardions l’aurore poindre et le soleil rougir en
Se couchant. Nous avons aimé et étions aimés et aujourd’hui
Nous gisons dans les champs de Flandre.
Reprenez notre combat contre l’ennemi:
De nos mains qui chancellent, nous vous confions
Le flambeau qui sera vôtre et que vous tiendrez haut.
Si vous ne croyez plus en nous qui mourrons, jamais nous
Ne retrouverons le repos dans les Champs de Flandre
Où fleurissent les coquelicots
*** The Little Carpet Boy *** World Day against Child Labor ***
The true story of a little hero
Which country?
Which name?
Recap !
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/06/world-day-against-child-labor/100317/
*** Concours Paper Planes 2013 *** 6°2 *** 4°3 ***
Château de Joux, detail by André Roz
Winter
Is
New
The
Evening
Rises
Lucas Macarol Collège Lucie Aubrac 6°2
6°2 Collège Lucie Aubrac 2012-2013 Marie André-Milesi Paper Planes
CapucineLongchampt Collège Lucie Aubrac 6°2 2012-2013 Concours Paper Planes
Cinzia Cassanelli Clara Senot 6°2 Collège Lucie Aubrac
Rémi D Valentin A-A Eliott B Concours Paper Planes 2013
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Looking for Eric by Ken Loach -under construction-Collège et cinéma
1)Underline 5 similarities between Ken Loach’s life and work and Gustave Courbet’ s life and work.
2)Choose 5 sentences or more and ask as many questions as you can.
Gustave Courbet was born in La Vallée de la Loue (Loue Valley) in Franche-Comté on June 10th 1819 .He studied in Besançon and Paris. His family wanted him to study law but he preferred drawing and painting. He spent a lot of his time in museums copying a huge amount of paintings and eventually stopped studying law. He was politically involved in La Commune and was attributed the destruction of La Colonne Vandôme.
He liked saying “Courbet sans les courbettes”.It means that he was a very straightforward person with a lot of personality- at times, too much!He wrote many interesting pamphlets and letters to explain his viewpoints about painting. He didn’t want to work for the Académie des Beaux-Arts and refused any type of promotion linked to the government because he wanted to be a free “thinker”.
He had a son who died when he was 25 years old .
He was condemned by the French government and put in prison. He died in exile in Switzerland on December 31st 1877. The debate about his responsibility or the absence of responsibility in the destruction of the Column is still going on.
His painting has the realism of every day life:
-people at work
-people coming back from a burial
-ordinary people at a burial
-hunting scenes with realistic details
-ordinary people by the riverside
-nudes with realistic details
-portraits and landscapes of his region
The common key-word and denominator between the two people is r e a l i s m .
Ken Loach was born on June 17th 1936. He started studying law and eventually became a comedian. He is interested in shooting films and documentaries about daily life.He becomes the reference for “docudrama”, a mixture of fiction and documentaries.
He wants to show the difficulties of people in today’s world. The words which best sum up his work are= dark and gloomy, depressive and depressed, depression, gloominess and darkness.
He usually resorts to ordinary people rather than real actors.
He likes shooting films about the working-classes.
Kes (1969) is a film about a young boy who trains a kestrel in an ordinary working-class family with very ordinary people.
-cinema as a tool for understanding our world
-cinema should inform, educate and high light our human condition
-cinema should stress important elements in people’s daily life=
their problems in their jobs and their family relationships.
-cinema should serve politics, ethics and economy more than entertainment.
– “Humour is essential to our humanity”. “It is a question of survival.”
– Football is part and parcel of social life in working class families
Regions shot by the artist:
Sheffield, Manchester-Liverpool , Glasgow.
http://www.visitengland.fr/destinations/find/yorkshire/dg.aspx