Hey guys,

today we first worked on how to create an atmosphere starting just from your senses and impressions and our little experiments... ;)  Creepy, wasn't it?

Here is what we finally said:

Narrating starting from your sensations and feelings


The desert island:
 

Arriving/landing: by boat, by airplane.

I came to the desert island by plane but it crashed into the ocean. I felt cold and wet.
 

Reaching the beach: I managed to reach the beach walking in the sand. It felt like biscuits under my feet.

 
Getting into the forest: I felt lost and exhausted. I was injured/hurt/wounded. My eyes hurt. I felt as if I were blind, but I knew I was in the forest. It felt dry and like twigs under my feet.

 
In the forest, first meeting with the natives: I was taken by people to their camp. They fed me soup with mysterious ingredients. It felt as if I were eating human eye balls and a warm beating heart.





Structure: Exprimer une émotion/sensation
    

The 5 senses:
Touch -> to feel
Smell -> to smell
Taste -> to taste
Hearing -> to sound
Sight -> to look … + adj
                               + like + nom
                               + as if + phrase (prétérit modal)

Ex: It feels strange and mysterious
       It smells like vinegar
       It tastes as if it were dead fish

  
Then, after revealing the real objects from the bag, we continued the lesson with a recap of your homework about Joseph Conrad and we began to study an extract from one of his biggest success: "Heart of Darkness". 

Here is what we have begun to say about it:

Heart of Darkness:

 
Type of narrative: 1st person narrative. The point of view is Marlow’s. It’s an internal focalization.
 

Who: Marlow and his men (pilgrims) + the natives.
Where: On a river, into the forest, in the wild/wilderness (a wild dense jungle)
When: At night
 

What: Marlow is looking for a friend (Kurtz) who may be lost/ may have been kidnapped. As he sails up the river, he feels as if someone were watching and following him. In this imagination, it sounds as if the natives were preparing a ceremony/sacrifice. Because of the heavy foliage and the dark, he feels as if he were blind.
    Cf. : « bodies swaying »      Sense of sight
            « eyes rolling »            Sense of sight
            « feet stomping »        Sense of hearing


Additonal vocabulary:

A steamer
A steam-ship
A roof
(to) sail = to go by boat
(to) manage to = (to) succeed in ...

HW:

- pour mercredi, vous devez répondre aux questions 2 à 5 de la fiche guide de compréhension du texte.

- faites-vous des fiches de lexique par thème. Je vais bientôt ramasser des classeurs pour vérifier que le travail est fait correctement.

Documents:

- Téléchargez le texte ici.

- Téléchargez la fiche de compréhension ici.

Hi guys,

today was the last test before the end of the term. I'll try to correct it asap, i.e. before your "conseil de classe".

I'll keep you posted about it.

Until then, take care.

Mr Hattais.

Hey guys,

today we first finished correcting your tests (essay and translation). Here is the list of link words that were used in the essay:

"to be written by Sarah / Aurianne"

Here is the correction for the translation (English original text + our proposal):

"to be written by Sarah / Aurianne"

Then you took a vocabulary test and you then had to analyse and compare two drawings by Normal Rockwell that you can see again below:

Click to enlarge

Here is the chart we began to draw about the similarities and the differences between the two documents:

Similarities :

- Same artist
- American flag
- Women = the same girl (Rosie)
- masculine + feminine elements (trousers, clothes....)
- Short red-haired girls
- Not housewives
- look strong/ determined


Differences :

- They don't really look alike
- She has less muscles
- Not the same activities
- Their attitude (static / movement)
- symbol for Hitler (Mein Kampf)


-> Symbol :

They both embody the woman and her evolution during and after the war .

HW:

- Préparer des notes pour le commentaire (Identification, Description, Analyse, Contexte, Opinion, Elargissement) de l'une des deux images, au choix. Il serait quoiqu'il arrive judicieux de faire référence à l'autre oeuvre dans votre Analyse / Contexte / Elargissement... Quelques élèves seront notés sur leur intervention.

- Vous pouvez regarder ces reportages que nous visionnerons probablement Mercredi également en partie pour clore la séquence. Cela pourra vous donner des idées d'analyse:

Hey guys,

today we studied an extract from the movie "Pearl Harbour" and your role was to identify the similarities and the differences with Stella's story.

You can watch the extract here again: 

Here is the chart that we ended up drawing:

HW:

- actualisez vos fiches de vocabulaire.

- vous aurez un contrôle de vocabulaire sur le thème de la séquence 2 (Love during the War) le jeudi de la rentrée (03/11/11) + vous aurez également un devoir sur table très prochainement (probablement le 2ème jeudi de la rentrée 10/11/11).

- Préparez vous à parler de la leçon en début d'heure. Je veux des volontaires et apprécierais que ce soit des élèves qui ne parlent pas souvent qui prennent la parole de façon à ce qu'ils puissent augmenter leur note d'oral. Certains sont en danger d'avoir de très mauvaises notes...

Hey guys,

today we first warmed up about the possibility to maintain a love relationship during the war and here is what you said:

Then we continued with summing up what the Blitz was and we jotted down a few words to remember:

Finally, we started reading a new text about Stella, Philip and Joe on the farm. Here are the notes that we took to remember the first elements of the story:

HW:

- être capable de faire le compte rendu du texte sur ce que nous avons compris pour le moment.

- préparer des notes pour répondre à la question suivante en anglais à l'oral: "What would you do if you were Stella? Leave the farm and break up with Joe or stay and break up with Philip? Explain why." (2-3 minutes)

Documents:

- Télécharger une copie du texte ici.