video: A brief history of the USA from Bowling for Columbine, by Michael Moore
if you are interested in the film, have a look at the film's website here




1 THE PILGRIM FATHERS ( this topic will be studied in November)

click here for the webquest

HOW TO BAKE A PUMPKIN PIE?
Watch the video on this site and fill in the worksheet

2 NATIVE AMERICANS

use the documents you were given . If you need more information, those links might be useful

group 1 : see video in your class's common files on kwartz (euro anglais/native americans)

group 2: Native Americans and nature
details on totem poles here
have fun creating the group's totem pole, print it and EXPLAIN it to the class. click here
native american houses:here
shamanism here

group 3: The buffalo
a video here


group 4:detribalization

Indian Boarding Schools

group 5:The trail of tears
a video here  + webpage here

group 6:The Navajo code talkers
official website here: http://www.navajocodetalkers.org/

group 7: Native american traditions
find out, show and explain what the following things are:
a dreamcatcher, mocassins, a tomahawk, a scalp, a pow wow, a bow and arrows, a teepee, a calumet....

group 8: FAMOUS PEOPLE
WHO WERE POCAHONTAS, SQUANTO, CRAZY HORSE, GERONIMO?
about POCAHONTAS: a funny way to introduce her story here
WHO was David Stern Crockett? (work with group 5 at some point )



3 THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR

SEE THAT TRAILER FOR A VIDEO GAME (btw, it's a PEGI 18 game, which means people under 18 can't play that game)
interesting part until 1.10 min.



4 SLAVERY

a) The Triangular trade

b) The UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
INTERACTIVE JOURNEY HERE




VIDEO: the undergound railroad :


 
c) The Alphabet of slavery: a poem

   5- the MELTING POT
a) Why is the Usa called "a melting-pot"?

where did people come from? why did they leave their homelands? click here to complete your worksheet


From the Old World to the New World : THE MAKING OF THE USA

1- A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (from Bowling for Columbine, by Michael Moore)


+remise en ordre des dates clés de l'histoire américaine

 2- description of the illustration "Welcome to the land of freedom"


KEY WORDS: deck of a ship / the background / the Statue of liberty / the harbour / IMMIGRANTS
LIBERTY ISLAND

3- WEBQUESTS
 webquest 1: quand et pourquoi les gens quittaient-ils leur pays pour partir vivre aux USA?


 webquest 2: EXPLOREZ ELLIS ISLAND ici, et cherchez d'éventuels ancêtres ici





 

7 - THE HISTORY OF THE USA THROUGH the eyes of FORREST GUMP
 

The Events These were the events covered in the movie:

• Early Rock'n Roll - Elvis (from 1955 on) (Hound Dog - 1958)
• Desegregation of the University of Alabama (Govn. George Wallace) (1963)
  assassination of J.F. Kennedy (1963)
• Vietnam War - (use of Napalm) (1960-1973)
• Anti-War movement (March on Washington) (1969)
• Civil Rights Movement (Black Panthers, SDS) (1960s)
• the moon landing (1969)
• John Lennon ("Imagine") (1971)
• The Watergate Scandal - Pres. Nixon's resignation (1972)
• outbreak of AIDS (1970s)

1° CLICK HERE TO FILL IN YOUR TIMELINE WITH THE PRESIDENTS' NAMES

2° THE FIFTIES: Why does Forrest wear braces on his legs at the beginning of the film?

3° another wave of immigration: the Puerto Ricans

 

DOWNLOAD WORKSHEET HERE
 

4° THE SIXTIES Black Americans, the Hippies, Landing on the Moon

5°THE ICONS of MUSIC AND CINEMA