Rosa Parks

An extraordinary person who stood up against racism

These days were harder for women

Courageous

A national hero

Got on a bus / put money in the slot / sat at the front / refused to move / driver called the police / got arrested /

December 5^th 1955.

1984: received a prize / award “Woman of courage”

Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr and JoAnn Robinson organized a bus boycott

Black people continued the boycott => success.

3 laws changed:

       1 = Black and White can sit where they want

       2 = the bus drivers must respect all riders / passengers

       3 = Black people were allowed to apply to drive buses.

Martin L. King Jr Peace Prize

Monday, December 11^th 2017.

Emmeline Pankhurst was a political activist who fought for the cause of women and especially their right to vote. She lived in the UK from 1858 to 1928 / from mid-19^th century to the beginning of the 20^th century. She devoted her life women’s rights as she spent her life fighting inequalities. She was also a wife and a mother who risked her health, her life, and her money. To be heard from the rest of society, she and her friends (fellow suffragettes) committed petty crimes like breaking windows, setting fire to letter boxes or chaining themselves to fences / railings. Emmeline Pankhurst never thought she was a criminal, on the contrary, she believed she would become a lawmaker: “We are here not because we are lawbreakers, we are here in our efforts to become lawmakers”.

Emmeline Pankhurst

We are not law breakers, we are law makers      Political equality for women

Lit touch paper        Completely …                 forever               Feminist

Changed the understanding of women’s place          Traditional law

Political activist              Created a movement of women for women

Woman’s vote         Wife, mother    Suffragette        Peaceful        Remember

Limits of conventional                 Campaigned to success               Freedom

Responsibilities              Vital to political progress                   Democracy

She gave the women of Britain the first political voice           Security

Kicked down doors for women         Physical and moral courage

Wednesday, November 29th 2017.

Oral comprehension – Winston Churchill’s speech

This document is a radio broadcast of a speech by Winston Churchill , when he was British Prime Minister, in 1940. Here he was speaking / talking to / addressing the British population / citizens because he wanted to tell them not to give up facing the war and its terrors. First he explains that he has nothing else to offer but “blood, tears, toil and sweat” because he wants to say that the period to come is going to be terrible. He offers to wage war on three levels: in the air (with planes dropping bombs), on land (with men, soldiers, troops and tanks) and at sea (to access the French coasts). He doesn’t name his opponent who is in fact Hitler’s Nazism, but he refers to it with the metaphor of “monstruous tyranny” to state how inhuman his enemy is, and why they had to fight.

His will to win over Nazism is perceptible in his repetition of the word “victory” five times. The impression that we have from listening to him is one of optimism in spite of the fact that he talks about war.