WOMEN OF PROHIBITION - Le blog de Miss

AXE 2 : Espace privé et espace public / Private and public sphere

Women of Prohibition

Key question : How did American women’s place in society change with Prohibition?

The public sphere is where the free discussion and debate of ideas occurs, and the private sphere is the realm of family life.

Historically, women and people of color have often been excluded from participation in the public sphere in the United States.

Mission 1: Cultural Background

Read the Cultural file on Prohibition and complete the worksheet

LISTENING COMPREHENSION

CONNECT ON YOUR EDPUZZLE ACCOUNT TO PERFORM THE LISTENING COMPREHENSION

HOMEWORK:

Being a woman in the 19th century

Download the following document, read it and summarize the content in your own words

FOCUS 1 : The Women’s Crusade

MISSION 1: Describing a photograph

MISSION 2: Listening comprehension

Eliza Thompson's crusade

Listen to PART 1: from 0.00 to 1.34

Watch part 1 of the documentary and recap what you have understood in French.

Listen to PART 2: from 1.35 to 5.51

Take notes, then download the following document and translate

Reading comprehension

Doc 2: Guardians of family virtue

TEXT and VOCABULARY

COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS

THE CONSEQUENCES OF PROHIBITION

LISTENING COMPREHENSION

Useful vocabulary before watching the video

A bootlegger, a smuggler = un contrebandier (personne qui vend de l’alcool pendant la prohibition)

To bootleg, to smuggle = faire du traffic de…

Moonshine = alcool de contrebande

Booze = alcohol

To booze =picoler

A bribe = un bakchich, un pot-de-vin

To repeal an amendment = abroger un amendement