Woodstock + Committed singers

Hi guys,

today we first talked about the video clip by 30 seconds to Mars "This is War". You can watch it again below:

I forced you'all to speak so that you could watch it entirely and you finally did quite a good job in the end with very interesting interpretations, ideas, and comments. I wish you did that more freely and spontaneously all the time for ALL of you... What do you think if someone volunteered to make a complete written presentation of what we have said orally...?

Then we continued the class with a quick recap of your research about the different singers that I had asked you to look up and we concluded this part with the viewing of an extract from the Woodstock festival.

Here is what we wrote today in the copybooks:

"to be written by ..."

Finally, you had to perform the poem "Strange Fruit" and to give each performance a grade, justifying it. Unfortunately many of you hadn't prepared it correctly; so some presentations were really awkward and even lame... please, prepare yourselves when you come to class... I really hate it when my students behave like slackers...

HW:

- être sûr de pouvoir faire la prestation demandée (connaître par coeur le poème et l'avoir mis en scène [ = déplacements, ton de voix, gestes symboliques, transmission de message, ...]).

- se préparer au contrôle de vocabulaire qui approche...

- réviser en vue du contrôle de fin de séquence qui aura lieu juste après les vacances de Pâques.

More information about... Woodstock here.