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Unit 2: The Race to the White House (1ère AMC)

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Unit 2: The Race to the White House (1ère AMC)

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Timeline:

January 15^th 2024: The Primaries began.

July 15-18^th 2024: The Republican Convention

August 19-22th 2024: The Democratic Convention

November 5^th 2024: Election Day

December 17^th 2024: The Electoral College will meet to vote for the winner.

January 20^th2025: Inauguration Day

-To vote: To go to the polls

-Primaries: Elections to choose a candidate.

-Running mates: candidates running for President and VP for the same party

-To campaign: To express your policies and ask people to vote for you.

-Platforms: Party Policies

-Tickets: the pair formed by the candidates for President and VP.

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Who is Kamala Harris?

The document under study is an extract from an article published on the US Government Website on July 24^th, 2024.

It is about how Kamala Harris turned from Vice-President to presidential candidate.

We have learned that Harris was born in 1964 in California from immigrant parents. Indeed, her father was Jamaican and her mother was Indian. She has a sister. Unfortunately, her parents divorced when she was young and she was mainly raised by her mother.

She was chosen over Biden as the new Democratic candidate because people started to worry about Biden’s mental and physical health and capacity to serve the country for four more years. Therefore, on July 21^st 2024, Biden officially announced his withdrawal from the race, that was when Harris started her campaign. She officially was nominated during the Democratic Convention on August 19-22^nd.

Nevertheless, Harris will be facing several challenges in the race to the white house: she is a woman and a person of color. On top of that, she started her campaign only 4 months before Election Day, it is a very short period of time.

In order to have more chance to win, she would have to choose a white and old man as a running mate, someone who would have more experience than her. Eventually she chose Tim Walz.

Homework: Learn the lesson.

Unit 2: The Race to the White House (1ère AMC_gr2)

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US Presidential Elections Explained, The Telegraph

The document under study is a video from The Telegraph, a British media published in 2016. It deals with how the American Presidential Elections work.

We have learned that the acronym P.O.T.U.S. means President of the USA. (FLOTUS means First lady of the USA). In the American Presidential Elections, there are 4 main events : The first is Primary election, then the Conventions, then Election Day, finally Inauguration Day.

The Primary Elections usually take place from January to June of the year of the election. During the Primaries, each party select their candidates for the elections. On the Conventions, the candidates that have been selected make a large meeting to announce their candidacy and their running mates. Then, on Election Day takes place usually in November, the citizens vote for their candidate. Finally, Inauguration Day takes place at the White House, in Washington DC in January.

A Caucus State is a state in which citizens gather in meetings to vote openly for their candidates during the Primaries such as Iowa.

A Swing State is a state in which the population often change their preference for a party.

Homework: Learn the lesson.

Unit 2: The Race to the White House (1ère AMC)

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Unit 2: The Race to the White House, The 2024 American Presidential Elections -- Make America Vote Again!

Theme 2 Representations

Topic 1: Every Voice Counts

The two main parties are the Democratic Party (the Democrats). Its color is blue and its emblem is a donkey. For the Republican Party (The Republicans), its color is red and its emblem is an elephant.

This Year’s Candidates:

For the Democrats: Kamala Harris as president, she is 59 years old.

She is currently Vice-President for Joe Biden since 2021. She is the first woman in this role.

She was Senator for her home state: California from 2017 to 2021.

She used to be Attorney General of the state for six years. She campaigned for the presidential Elections in 2020.

Tim Walz as Vice-President, he is 60 years old.

A former high school social studies teacher.

He was a former American football coach in Nebraska.

He has been Governor for the state of Minnesota for 12 years. Minnesota is his wife’s home state.

For the Republicans: Donald Trump for President. He is 78 years old. HE used to be president from 2017 to 2021. He was a rich businessman. He lost the election against Joe Biden in 2020 and contested the results.

John David (JD) Vance, Vice-President. He is 40 years old.

He had a difficult childhood in Ohio. He used to work in finance. He went to law school. In 2016 he published a successful memoir. It interesting to note that he used to criticize Trump before accepting his support to be elected as a Republican Senator in Ohio in 2022.

The Election:

It takes place every 4 years.

The traditional date is the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November (This year it will be on November 5^th)

The Voting Process:

In each state Citizens vote for a ticket. è the popular vote

Each state has a fixed number of votes in the Electoral College.

Nationally, the Electoral College votes for the President è The official winner.

What is paradoxical is that a candidate can receive more votes from the citizens, however, in the end, lose the elections because the states they won have fewer Electoral College votes.

(We will continue the study of the document next week. Be ready!)

Homework: Learn the lesson.

Unit 1: Social Networks (1ère Générale)

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Unit 1: Higher, Faster, Stronger (Tle G1)

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Unit 1: Brave New World (1ère AMC)

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Unit 1: Brave New World (1ère AMC)

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Unit 1: Social Networks (1ère Générale)

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Pigeon Post:

First used in 1140s. They would use homing pigeon to send their messages. Pigeons were raised in a certain location so that they became very familiar with the place. The next step was to travel with one of the pigeons to another place and whenever we needed to send a message to our original location we had to attached a message to one of the feet of the pigeon and thanks to its homing abilities, the pigeon would naturally go back to its original home.

Printer:

Invented by Johannes Gutenberg in 1436, the printing press with replaceable wooden or metal letters.

Writing machine or typewriter

Invented around the 19^th century. The ancestors of our current keyboard and computer. It facilitated writing any kind of documents. Mainly used by professionals: writers, journalists, secretaries… Before starting to be used for personal correspondences.

The Mail Post:

Since the mid-19^th century, national postal systems have generally been established as government created fees on some articles.

The Telegraph:

It is to send telegram, that uses electrical signals conveyed by telecommunication or radio transmission of coded messages: Morse. Created in the mid 19^th century.

All the other inventions made to communicate from afar:

The landline phone, text messages, e-mails, fax, RSS, newspapers, the TV, the radio, Wifi, Bluetooth, cellular, cellphones, smartphones, Social Media…

The Dangers of the Internet

The document under study is an article published on the Daily Mail on November 30^th 2013. It is about a picture posted by Julie Anne Culp, who posted a picture on her Facebook account to teach her students about Internet safety. In fact, her picture was liked more than 300,000 times and shared more than 30,000. In addition, her picture was even reposted by many celebrities and Photoshoped/modified. It became quickly viral to a point that it became instantly a symbol and an important example of how dangerous Internet is. Especially on how quick information circulates and the vastness of viewers that can repost and modify our posts.

(We will continuen the study of the article next time.)

Homework: Learn the lesson. Be ready for an Oral Comprehension of the theme of the Chapter.

Unit 1: Brave New World (1ère AMC_gr2)

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Unit 1: Higher, Faster, Stronger (TG1)

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Unit 1: Brave New World (1ère AMC)

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Unit 1: Brave New World (1ère AMC_gr1)

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Unit 1: Brave New World (1ère AMC)

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Unit 1: Higher, Faster, Stronger (TleG1_gr2)

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Group 3

In the 1920s, Paris was the center of the intellectual and cultural, artistic and political life. On top of that it was a very crowded city with 2,9 million inhabitant, including Irish celebrities such as Samuel Beckett an Irish novelist who was the nephew of an athletes who competed in the Paris 1924 Olympics. In 1924, Ireland could finally participate to the Olympic Games under the Irish banner for the first time.

Group 4

The Tailtean Games took place in Dublin, one week after the Olympics in 1924. It was the biggest sport event attracting up to 5000 competitors which was 2000 more than the Paris Olympics. The athletes were mainly Irish. The origins of the sport event lead back to an Irish legend, they first took place in Teltown in honor of Queen Tailte. They look alike the Olympics and it took place every four years. The goal was to unite the country, help forge an identity and create a feeling of belonging.

Group 5

Pierre de Coubertin was strongly against women competing at the Olympics. In fact, as for him it was a male-only competition. However, women could compete in tennis, golf, archery, swimming and gymnastics. In 1924, they were only 135 women athletes. Nevertheless, in 1922, Paris hosted a competition event for women in track and field with the help of a feminist activist named Alice Milliat. Eventually, the International Olympic committee instead of letting women participating in smaller competitions, they allowed them to participate to the next Olympic Games in the track and field discipline.

Group 6

In 1948 London Olympics took place after WWII. There were the first disabled athletes in wheelchairs practicing archery. This was the beginning of the Paralympics that developed fully in Rome in 1960 with 23 countries that represented by almost 400 disabled athletes. On top of that, there were disabled women athletes who participated to the competition as well. It enabled disabled people to integrate better into the society. Back then, women were still discriminated against because they were supposed to stay at home and take care of the household. They were not supposed to practice sport outside the house.

Group 7

The Games have evolved throughout the time: more and more women are represented, there are more and more countries that goes along with the increase of diversity in the Games. Back then athletes used to be amateurs, however, there were more and more professional athletes who started to compete in the Games. In fact, during the Cold War period, these athletes were used as a form of soft power to promote their own countries. On top of that, the globalization of TV more precisely, in color, expanded the audience of the Games. In addition, the sponsors also helped in the expansion of the Games as a whole.

Homework: Learn the lesson.

Unit 1: Social Networks (1ère Générale)

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Unit 1: Social Networks (1ère Générale)

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unit 1: Higher, FAster, Stronger (Tle G1_gr1)

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Group 3

Group 4

The Tailteann Games took place in 1924 in Dublin following the Paris Olympics. There were 5000 Irish athletes from which there were 6 Gold medalists (there were 3000 athletes in the Paris 1924 Olympics). They were modeled the same way the Olympics were with grand opening and closing ceremonies with athletic events and cultural competitions. The Tailteann Games were then organized every four years. The goal of these games was to unite all Irish athletes under one unique ceremony and forge their identity and their feeling of belonging.

These games were created 632 BC y an ancient Irish Kings. There were in Telton organized as funeral games honoring his mother Queen Tailte giving its name to the completion.

Group 5

At the 1924 Paris Olympics, there were 3000 athletes but only 135 women were represented. In fact, Pierre de Coubertin was against women competing in the games, as for him it was a male-only competition. However, women could compete in tennis, golf, archery, swimming and gymnastics. However, in 1922, Paris organized a Women’s World Games in track-and-field discipline. As a result, in 1926, the International Olympic Committee decided to let women take part in track and field competition.

Group 6

The first Olympics took place in 1948 after WWII in London. It was the start for disabled to take part in the games. They competed in archery tournament. This competition became annual. Then, the first official Paralympics took place in Rome in September 1960. There 23 countries represented and 400 athletes. On top of that, women disabled also participated in the games. Thanks to the development of the Paralympics, people started to open their eyes on the reality of disabled people, to help them integrate the society better and to stop treating them differently. Besides, the Games help to stop discriminating people against and encourage equality between the two genders. Even though, it took time for women to be fully represented as in 1996 they were only 34% of them competing. However, they were allowed to compete in all the disciplines. Women were under-represented because they were supposed to stay at home and take care of the household and seen as weaker than men.

Group 7

At the time it was only amateurs athletes who took part in the Olympics. However, at the end of WWII and the beginning of the Cold War, more and more professional athletes started to take part in the Games as a form of soft power with the different countries competing against one another. In addition, with the invention of the TV in color commercialization grew and sponsorships followed, hence the Games changed. Moreover, 1988 was the first time athletes competed without any restrictions and where the Olympics were filled with professional sports such as basketball, and golf… In addition, For the first time in 1999 Irish athletes were financed by the government and had access to world class facilities at a sport campus. Besides, the International Paralympic Committee was created in 1989 which brought a focus on normalizing Paralympic sports and the expansion of its media profile. The 2012 London Games helped Paralympians to have a larger social impact with a larger audience and therefore a international profiles.

Homework: Learn the lesson.