Parody + end of the cartoon + beginning of Strange Fruit

25.01.2011 …

By English Prof

Hey,

today we first watched the video that you can find in the "For Fun" section again about the "Blackberry". Here is what we said as a warm up:

The document is a parody of new technology and more precisely about brand names. There are puns on words about "blackberry", "apple", "orange" which are also fruit.
It's funny because of the puns on words but also because the situation is grotesque.

Then we talked again about the cartoon and here is what we said about it:

Procédé de traduction: le passif -> be + p.passé
The chains were taken from the negroes.... = On a oté les chaines....
They were given ropes instead = On leur a donné des cordes à la place.

Information about the KKK:

- founded in Tennessee
- ku klux - comes from the Greek - it means circle (private, secret society)

... (to be written by Cindy)

Then we began to make some oral comments about the tone of the song Strange Fruit.

HW: learn your lesson and vocabulary.

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cindy

01/26/2011 09:59

Stange Fruit by Billie Holiday The singer conveys a lot of emotions through her song, thanks to the melody, her voice, her attitude and her lyrics. The melody is slow, low and conveys a melancholy feeling. The topic is very serious and Billie Holiday is committed/involued Her voice is powerful.She sounds as if she were about to cry.Her eyes are empty when she remembers the neckti/lynching party and the suffering on the black people. Her voice conveys both pain and hatred/sorrow and anger when she pounds on/stresses some important words. As for her attitude, she grimaces and her mouth is often twisted. She wails at the end of the song to express her suffering.She is very sensitive. The lyrics evoke a lynching party:"black bodies hanging".But the scene is in contrast with some words with a posotive connotation:"southern breeze","swing"... We cannot but sympathize with her when she refrains from crying/when she is on the verge of tears. When she has tears in her eyes.

English Prof

01/26/2011 14:43

Thanks Cindy for the update. It will allow Laetitia and Lydia to catch more quickly. Please make sure you correct some of the mistakes you made while copying the board. Take care, Mr Hattais.