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ARE AMERICANS SAFE?
AXE 5: FICTIONS & REALITIES
GUNS in the USA: Delusion or necessity?
KEY QUESTIONS:
Are Americans safe?
Why do Americans feel the need to own a gun?
What is the social cost of gun ownership?
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MISSION 1: BRAINSTORMING
What do you know about guns in the USA?
Have a look at the following questionnaire and debate with your classmates...
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MISSION 2 : THE II AMENDMENT
Document 1: The 2nde Amendment of the US Constitution.
MISSION 3: The NRA, a very powerful lobby
MISSION 4: a very powerful lobby
DISCUSS:
Look at the following cartoon and describe it quickly.
What is the author's goal?
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to peck at = picorer
MISSION 4: On your own
Gun crime statistics
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Listen to your teacher and write the missing figures or dates...
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Listen to Emma Gonzalez's powerful speech and react...
If you want to learn more about the "MARCH FOR OUR LIVES" movement, CLICK below:
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Since 2018, we've mobilized millions of young people to demand what is rightfully ours: A future free of gun violence.
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to endorse a candidate = soutenir un candidat, an endorsement = un soutien, the stakes = les intérêts
Doc 3: Evan, Sandy Hook promise
READING COMPREHENSION:
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Mass shootings in the US: 2022 could be the second-highest year | CNN
This year is likely to be the second-highest year for mass shootings in the United States on record, according to data compiled by the Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit that tracks gun violence ...
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/11/23/us/2022-mass-shootings-tracking-second-highest/index.html
Watch this video and answer the questions on your worksheet.
Debate in class.
THE COLUMBINE MASSACRE
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NO GUNS ALLOWED...
Watch this video and answer the questions on your worksheet.
Debate in class.
Background information
Following a shootout at a school in Parkland, Florida (February 14, 2018), youth organized a movement and protests for increased gun control in the United States on March 24, 2018. These Parades were called March For Our Lives and brought together more than a million people. The most important took place in Washington DC and one of the spokespersons was Emma Gonzalez, a survivor of the Parkland killings.
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How Parkland Students Are Taking on Politicians in the Gun Control Battle
It's lunchtime on a Tuesday, and the kids are piling into a pizzeria booth in Coral Springs, Fla., to plot a revolution. "The adults know that we're cleaning up their mess," says Cameron Kasky, an ...
Background information
The shooting of Aurora (a suburban Denver town, hence the name of Denver Shooting) took place in a movie theater on the night of July 19 to 20, 2012. The gunman killed 12 people and wounded 70. The journalist mentions this event earlier in the interview.
THE DENVER SHOOTING
Gun Country, Michael Murphy, 2014
Mission 1: Do research on Michael Murphy
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The anamorphic sculptures by artist Michael Murphy | Collater.al
Michael Murphy is an American artist known for his anamorphic sculptures and for the Perceptual Shift series of three-dimensional installations. Michael Murphy is an American artist who lives and ...
https://www.collater.al/en/anamorphic-sculptures-michael-murphy/
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Online portfolio featuring the work of sculptor Michael Murphy
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Gun Country: A Map Of The USA Consisting Of 150 Toy Guns
Conceptual artist Michael Murphy recently created a controversial installation called Gun Country, which creates a map of the contiguous United States consisting of 150 toy guns. The plastic guns ...
https://www.boredpanda.com/gun-country-installation-usa-map-michael-murphy/
Gun Country, 2014
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1200 Black Ping Pong Balls Form a Deadly Assault Rifle
For one to truly appreciate this new installation by artist Michael Murphy, one must view it from a specific angle. Called , the sculptural work consists of a sea of 1,200 ping pong balls, painted ...
https://mymodernmet.com/michael-murphy-damage-ping-pong-balls-gun/
Mission 3: Read about Andy Warhol’s painting entitled Gun and find out why Andy Warhol decided to paint this Gun?
Gun, Andy Warhol, 1981
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'Gun', Andy Warhol, 1981 | Tate
Medium Acrylic paint and silkscreen on 2 canvases Dimensions Support, each: 1782 x 2286 x 40 mm Collection ARTIST ROOMS Tate and National Galleries of Scotland Death emerged as a distinctive theme ...
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Valerie Jean Solanas (April 9, 1936 - April 25, 1988) was an American radical feminist and author best known for writing the SCUM Manifesto, which she self-published in 1967, and attempting to ...
Listen to the GUN CULTURE vocabulary and practice your pronunciation