ARE AMERICANS SAFE?

par Miss CONRARD  -  3 Septembre 2023, 10:18  -  #NIVEAU TERMINALE

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?

 

MISSION 1: BRAINSTORMING

What do you know about guns in the USA?

ARE AMERICANS SAFE?
ARE AMERICANS SAFE?

MISSION 2 : THE II AMENDMENT

Document 1: The 2nde Amendment of the US Constitution.

Document 1: The 2nde Amendment of the US Constitution.

Document 2: What is the 2nd Amendment?

MISSION 3: The NRA, a very powerful lobby

to peck at = picorer

to peck at = picorer

Document 3: Learn about the NRA

MISSION 4: On your own

Gun crime statistics

ARE AMERICANS SAFE?
SPEAKING TIME
WATCH THE VIDEO BELOW
1. Summarize what you have understood in English
2. What is the goal of this document?
3. Did you find it convincing?

 

Doc 3: Evan, Sandy Hook promise

ARE AMERICANS SAFE?
VIDEO TIME
GUNS WITH HISTORY

Watch this video and answer the questions on your worksheet.

Debate in class.

READING TIME

THE COLUMBINE MASSACRE

 

ARE AMERICANS SAFE?
MUSIC TIME

NO GUNS ALLOWED...

Watch this video and answer the questions on your worksheet.

Debate in class.

ORAL TIME
Comment on a political cartoon by OLLE, a Swedish cartoonist, 2011

1. Make a full description of what you can see.

2. Comment on the speech bubble.

3. What does this American woman embody?

4. What is the cartoonist's goal?

 

ARE AMERICANS SAFE?
EXTRA DOCUMENT
The Parkland shooting

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.

 

ARE AMERICANS SAFE?
ARE AMERICANS SAFE?
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ARE AMERICANS SAFE?

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

THE DENVER SHOOTING

GUN ART
Does Art play a role in public debate?
Gun Country, Michael Murphy, 2014
Gun Country, Michael Murphy, 2014
Gun Country, Michael Murphy, 2014

Gun Country, Michael Murphy, 2014

Mission 1: Do research on Michael Murphy

Mission 2:
Read the following article and collect information about Michael Murphy’s piece of art.                   
What is the artist’s goal?
EXTRA READING

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

Gun, Andy Warhol, 1981

On your OWN: Watch the following video
HOMEWORK: Learn more about Valerie Solanas and recap what you have understood.

Listen to the GUN CULTURE vocabulary and practice your pronunciation

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