Blog à destination des élèves du collège Joliot Curie (69500 Bron) mis en place par M. Hattais (Anglais) et Mme Parisi (Italien) en 2013
Tuesday, December 04 th Interpretation (3) I think the author wanted to provoke people with his painting. For him, everybody can be racist. The title is “The Problem We All Live With”. Everybody is responsible. To protect Ruby, the canvas is the symbolic...
Read moreWednesday, November 28 th Interpretation (2) The tomato: The tomato may represent an eagle, the symbol of the United States. It hit the wall and made a splash of blood. It can represent the blood of black people during slavery and the end of a racist...
Read moreTuesday, November 27 th Interpretation of the painting The school things: Ruby has 2 copybooks in her hand, one brown book and one blue with white stars. She has a ruler and two pens. I think the ruler is for the new rules of desegregation. She has the...
Read moreMonday, November 26 th The painting by Norman Rockwell It’s a hyper-realistic painting because there are many details. There is Ruby in the middle. She has school things in her hands. She is escorted by 4 policemen, two marshals on the left and two on...
Read moreWednesday, November 21 st The 2nd day of school The demonstration was* more violent because: - the demonstration was blocked but the demonstrators threw* a tomato at Ruby. They target ed her. - there were* more people. - there was* the name of a racist...
Read moreTuesday, November 20 th The first day of school Afro-American people couldn’t live in the same neighbourhoods so Ruby had to drive to school. They couldn’t study in the same schools so there was a violent demonstration. The parents were racist; the director...
Read moreWednesday, November 7 th The laws of segregation (2) Afro American people couldn’t play checkers in the same parks. They had to sit at the back of buses. They had to use different bathrooms in gas stations. They had to study in separate schools. They...
Read moreTuesday, November 6 th The laws of segregation Black and white people were separate in public places everywhere in the USA: They had to watch movies in different cinemas. They couldn’t wash their hands in the same water fountains. They had to sit at the...
Read moreMonday, November 5 th At the school I think the scene takes place at school in the 1980’s. There was* a demonstration against the school. Maybe a teacher punch ed the children in their classes. They were violent. I suppose a teacher was* unfair because...
Read moreMonday, October 15 th The brave / courageous Aaron Aaron didn’t cry. He never shed * a tear and he never said* “ouch”. He closed his eyes and he cut* his hand. In his interview he said* he wasn’t* a superhero, he just imagined his family again to sur...
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