1ère LLCE year programme

 

Thematic  : Love/ Friendship / Relationship between the individual and the group/Being confronted to difference

Full Text reading : The Curious Incident of the Dog in the night-time By Mark Haddon

1) Love in disguise :

- Two Poems By Wendy Cope : First date SHE/ First Date HE

- An Extract From The Importance of being earnest By Oscar Wilde

- An extract from As You Like it By William Shakespeare

Videos :

As You like it, summary

Act 3 scene 2, Royal Shakespeare Company

As You like it, full 1936 version

The importance of being earnest, plot summary

Extract of The importance of being earnest

2) The individual and the group : A never ending Struggle

- An extract from They called me Number One By Bev Sellars

- Photography : Barack Obama And Joseph Medecine Crow being awarded the Presidential Medal Of Freedom

- Photography:A young Boy

-Tracks, Louise Erdrich Chap. 1.

- An extract from Three Day Road, Joseph Boyden

Videos :

Native American Film review

Video : An unbreakable code

3) Being Confronted to difference : Odd couples in love and friendship :

-Study of the painting By Jean-Michel Basquiat : Dos Cabezas (p.105)

- The Green Book ; trailer

Four extracts :

- Dignity always prevails

- KFC scene

- letter to his wife

- Dr Shirley helps with diction

- An extract from Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck ;

- Poem Bright Star, John Keats.

Thematic  : Imagination at Work : Scary Imagination/ Dystopias Utopias/ creative and visionary imagination

Full Text Reading : Three Short Stories By Edgar Allan Poe : The fall of the house of Usher ,The tell-tale heart and the Murders of the Rue Morgue.

1) Scary imagination : The Gothic genre 

• An extract from Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley

• An extract from The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, by Stevenson