IMAGINATION / Dystopia
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vendredi 15 novembre 2019
par agnesueur
par agnesueur
Dystopia in the school library... and elsewhere
As part of your assignment to be confronted with more dystopian works, or references to dystopia and the link with their author’s contemporary times, you will present a work around dystopia.
You will review what you have read, listened to, watched... ; explaining (spoiling just a little, for (...)

mercredi 6 novembre 2019
par agnesueur
par agnesueur
Good night & good luck
Here is a short video, referring to the anti-communist hunt in America under Mac Carthyism, and more precisely in Hollywood, to prepare for the watching of Good night and good luck.

mardi 8 octobre 2019
par agnesueur
par agnesueur
Squealer’s speech : the power of words
In the extract " Napoleon’s coup", pick up the rhetorical elements that Squealer uses to persuade the other animals.
Recap the figures of speech used and their effect on the audience. Afterwards Squealer was sent round the farm to explain the new arrangement to the others. "Comrades," he (...)
vendredi 20 septembre 2019
par agnesueur
par agnesueur
Cold War dystopias : Fahrenheit 451 & 1984
Describe the picture (+ type), analyse the elements (colours, position of the elements, attitudes…) and explain its link with the quotation. Describe the pictures (+ type), analyse the elements then explain the link (...)
jeudi 12 septembre 2019
par agnesueur
par agnesueur
Animal farm in PDF & cartoon
You can download the 44 pages of the novel here