1- AFRICAN AMERICANS IN US HISTORY 

SLAVERY

• The Transatlantic Slave Trade

• African American spirituals

• The Underground Railroad

• Abolitionists

Harriet TUBMAN

 

Frederick DOUGLASS

 

  Sojourner TRUTH

 

• The Civil War & The Emancipation Proclamation

• Spirituals

Louis Armstrong: Go Down Moses (1958)

 

The Staple Singers: Wade in the Water (1968)

 

SEGREGATION & THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

• Jim Crow Laws

 

• “Separate but equal”

 

• The Freedom Riders

 

• “Sit-ins”

 

• School integration

 

• Civil rights leaders

Martin Luther King Jr

 

• The Civil Rights Movement & Protest songs

Sam COOKE

"A Change is Gonna Come"

Billie Holiday: Strange Fruit

The Black Lives Matter Movement

 

2- PRACTICE YOUR GRAMMAR 

• Obligation / Absence d’obligation, Permission / Interdiction, Possibilité / Impossibilité au passé 

 

• La voix passive 

• De la voix active à la voix passive 
• De la voix passive à la voix active
• Prétérit ou present perfect ?

3- CULTURE TIME 

• FROM SLAVERY TO DESEGREGATION 

TIMELINE (fait par Elizabeth Prévost-Kaboré)

 

 

• GET TO KNOW NORMAN ROCKWELL

• THE PROBLEM WE ALL LIVE WITH

  • App 1 (adapted from Estelle Recht’s app) 

  • App 2 : how to describe and analyze a painting