SEQUENCE 5: THE BRITISH ROYALTY!

Hello everyone, j’espère que vous avez passé de bonnes vacances (...enfin) et que vous et vos proches vous portez bien.
Nous entamons aujourd’hui une nouvelle séquence! Je me suis basé sur certaines de vos conversations en classe qui portaient sur les actualités des membres de la famille royale anglaise, et je me suis dit: pourquoi pas?
L’idée de cette séquence sera de vous faire découvrir et mieux comprendre l'existence de la famille royale britannique et surtout répondre à la question suivante:

"IS THE BRITISH ROYALTY STILL RELEVANT?"

"Relevant"= pertinent. La Monarchie Britannique a-t-elle encore une utilité aujourd’hui? Pourquoi les Britanniques ont-ils encore besoin d’un roi ou d’une reine? Vous avez peut-être déjà quelques idées de réponses, mais nous allons explorer cela petit à petit...

To start nicely, let's talk about some facts about the British Royal Family. You can try to answer yourself (in the comment section) or by searching on the Internet (you can!)

WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THE QUEEN?

I / QUIZZ

1) The question you always ask: how old is Elizabeth II?
a. 79 years old
b. 87 years old
c. 94 years old

2) What is the real title of Elizabeth II?
a. Queen of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
b. Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms.
c. Queen of Great Britain and English Colonies.

3) Elizabeth's coronation took place in 1953! It was special because...
a. She was the first woman to rule England.
b. It was the first televised coronation.
c. She was not married when it happened.

4) What is the name of the House* of Elizabeth II? (*House= name of her family)
a. Tudor
b. Stuart
c. Windsor

5) One of these sentence is fake, which one?
a. Elizabeth is also Queen of Canada and Australia.
b. When she was young, Elizabeth worked as a mechanic in a car factory.
c. Elizabeth had three husbands during her reign.

6) What is the Queen's official residency?
a. 10 Downing Street
b. Hampton Court Palace
c. Buckingham Palace

7) If Elizabeth II dies, who will the next king?
a. her husband, Philip.
b. her son, Prince Charles.
c. her grandson, Prince William.


II/ FAMILY TREE:

Here is a very simplified family tree of the Windsor Royal Family (simplified because I didn't put everyone!). Try to find on Internet the name (and titles) of the different members:

1. Elizabeth II, Queen of England.
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6.
7.
8.
9.

III/ PERSONAL OPINION: (1 or 2 sentences)

Do you think kings and queens should be a thing of the past or should they still exist? Why?

CORRECTION DE LA COMPRÉHENSION ECRITE

Correction de la Compréhension Écrite (cliquez ici pour retrouver l’article original):

INTRODUCTION 

What is the subject of this article? Summarize it in one sentence.
This article deals with a collage made by Beyoncé in 2019 for Black History Month.

What is Black History month?
Black History month is an annual period of commemoration around African-American History.

QUESTION 

What did Beyoncé do for Black History Month in…
2016: She released the hit single “Formation”.
2017: She revealed her pregnancy.
2019: She posted a collage with African-American figures on her website.

RESEARCH ON INTERNET

Give very small information in one sentence about these people mentioned in the article
Aretha Franklin was an American singer and civil rights activist.
James Baldwin was an American writer, poet and activist. 
Maya Angelou was an American poet, memoirist and civil rights activist.

Give a summary in 1 or 2 sentences about the subject of these 2 books mentioned in the article 
The Children Blood and Bones is a story about Zélie Adebola, a girl who must restore magic in the Kingdom of Orïsha (a fantasy version of West Africa).
The Hate U Give is a story about a girl named Starr Carter who tries to speak about the death of her childhood friend who was shot by a white police officer.

TRUE OR FALSE ? 

 Justify by quoting the text - you can copy-paste

Black History Month is in March.
FALSE: “I remember being a kid in school and doing creative projects like this every February”

The collage was displayed in a video clip.
FALSE: “with a photo collage on her website”

Beyoncé’s song “Formation” is an important song for African-americans.
TRUE: “she dropped her hit-single-turned-black-anthem “Formation”

All the people featured in the collage are black activists.
FALSE: “Not everyone featured in Beyoncé’s collage is a traditional activist.”

Iddris Sandu is the creator of Snapchat and Instagram.
FALSE: “ Iddris Sandu, a 21-year-old tech genius who created the algorithms for Instagram and Snapchat.”

Beyoncé’s collage doesn’t feature Martin Luther King, Malcom X. and Rosa Parks. 
FALSE: “Malcolm X, Rosa Parks and Dr. King (all of whom are featured in Beyoncé’s collage)”

EXPLAIN IN FRENCH  

How did the author of the article used to celebrate Black History month at school?
L’auteur de l’article se rappelle qu’à l’école le Black History Month se célébrait avec des projets comme mémoriser le discours “I Have a Dream” de Martin Luther King, des dissertations sur les progrès faits depuis l’esclavage en Amérique ou bien des collages avec des personnalités importantes de l’Histoire Afro-Américaine.

According to the author of the article, why is Beyoncé’s collage “different”?
Même si ce collage comporte les grandes figures de l’histoire Afro-Américaine, celui de Beyoncé est différent parce qu’elle y inclut des membres de sa famille, des personnalités Afro-Américaines plus récentes ou encore des personnalités qui ne sont pas réellement des activistes au sens traditionnel du terme mais qui contribuent tous à promouvoir la communauté Afro-Américaine. 
En résumé, Beyoncé ne s’intéresse pas qu’au passé mais aussi aux personnes qui travaille en ce moment-même pour le futur de leur communauté.

RESUME DE LA SEQUENCE 4

C’est quasiment la fin de cette séquence sur la musique Afro-Américaine et je souhaitais transformer en jeu un petit résumé des différents styles de musique - que j’ai pris de le temps de dessiner pour vous. Répondez dans la section commentaire, même si vous n’êtes pas sûr(e)s ou si vous n’avez pas tout trouvé.

You have to find the name of different styles of African-American music. 

- The number of strokes (traits) corresponds to the number of letters. 

- They can be 1 or 2 words. 

You can answer in the comment section !

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BILL WITHERS (artist)

Bonjour à tous, aujourd'hui un exposé de ma part. Il y a quelque temps je mentionnais l'artiste Bill Withers dans cet article, et je viens d'apprendre récemment sa mort (liée à un problème cardiaque et pas au covid-19). Voici une petite présentation d'un artiste humble qui a eu plusieurs hits et influencé durablement la musique à sa manière.

BILL WITHERS 

Bill Withers was a Soul singer mostly popular during the 1970s.

He was born in West Virginia in a mining town. He suffered from asthma and stammer (bégaiement) in school when he was young. When he started to write songs, his stammer diminished.

He was working in factories in Los Angeles and spent his free time in jazz clubs. He presented his songs to a music publisher and had an enormous success with "Ain't no sunshine" in 1971.

He had other hits during his career, like Lean on Me (1972). The video underneath is from a concert in 2015 with Stevie Wonder.

After several years of tours (tournées) and concerts, he decided to retire in 1985 from the scene. He will continue to compose more songs, like the very famous "Just the two of Us" (which was famously covered (reprise) by Will Smith)

He created with his wife a publisher company to manage his discography. He died on March 30th, 2020 at the age of 81.

BEBOP (musical style)

Un autre exposé d'un de vos camarades. Je rappelle que les consignes se trouvent ici, et que la date limite est aujourd'hui 3 avril !

THE BEBOP REVOLUTION IN NEW YORK

Bebop was born at the beginning of the 1940s, from the desire of Blacks to save jazz from commercial recuperation by Whites, at the end of the Swing era.

In New York City, young Black musicians asked themselves questions and began to transpose through jazz the changing mentality of the Black community.

They felt the need to break out of the confines of the swing big-band tradition. If it allowed them to earn a living, they wanted to go further artistically and claim an avant-garde art.

Dizzy Gilepsy (1917-93)

This is how a music called be-bop or re-bop or bop2 was born. After food work, the musicians get together late at night for jam sessions that went on all night long in the clubs. It was at Minton's Playhouse, in 1941, that an audacious rhythm

section was hired to animate jam sessions with Thelonious Monk on piano and Kenny Clarke on drums.

Trumpet player Dizzy Gillespie came more and more often. As for Charlie Parker, who was performing Monroe's Uptown House, so Monk and Clarke were picking him up to join them. Swing musicians were gradually being excluded, discouraged by musical criteria that were too high (tempo, harmony).

Charlie Parker (1920-1955)

Jazz bop is becoming a complex, intellectual, militant music, often reserved for an audience of insiders and music lovers. Jazz critics have published a lot of articles disillusioned in trade journals about this post-war era.

- By Noé Delin

SCOTT JOPLIN (artist)

Aujourd'hui un autre exposé d'une de vos camarade. Je rappelle que les consignes se trouvent ici, et que la date limite est aujourd'hui 3 avril !

Scott joplin is a pianist but also an Afro American composer who was born

on November 24, 1868 in Texarkana and died on April 1, 1917 in New York.

I will first explain to you how Scott Joplin started in music, he first wanted to play the piano because he was fascinated by the piano of one of his neighbors and he started to play this instrument from the age of 8.

So he started playing the piano and learned the basics of piano without

teacher or method. The German professor Julius Weiss was aware of the

talent of Scott Joplin and offered him a piano as well as piano lessons.

The musical work I have chosen is "The Easy Winners", the title of the

composition refers to athletes who easily win a sporting event. The cover depicts

baseball, football, horse racing and sailing scenes .

I chose this work because it is one of his most popular works and it was one

of the four recorded in 1940.

The musical structure of this work is a classic balance between its strains, its

moods and in its progression of its quiet softness.

- by Belaid Siham.