Toutes les salles agrégation

Matière	Enseignant.e	Semestre	SALLE	Jour	Début	Fin	Semaines
Restitution	MOREL Julien	1	A409	Mardi	09:00	10:00	46-50
Linguistique TC	GOUDET Laura	1	CETAS	Mardi	10:00	12:00	38-50
Phonologie	HANCIL Sylvie	1	A408	Mardi	12:30	13:30	38-50
Littérature TC (Melville)	ROMANSKI Philippe	1	Préfabriqué 1	Mardi	14:30	17:00	38-43
Littérature TC (Webster)	BATAILLE Sylvaine	1	T107	Mardi	14:30	17:00	45-50
Synthèse	CABARET Florence	1	A510	Mardi	17:00	18:30	38-40
Synthèse	GILLARD-ESTRADA Anne-Florence	1	T107	Mardi	17:00	18:30	45-47
Version	TISSUT Anne-Laure	1	L312	Mercredi	10:30	12:00	38-50
Thème	MULLEN John	1	L312	Mercredi	09:00	10:30	38-50
Littérature TC (Ashbery)	GARDES Yves	1	A409 sauf S42 : A510	Mercredi	12:30	15:00	38-43
Littérature TC (Forster)	ROMANSKI Philippe	1	A409 sauf S47 : L213 et S50 : A401	Mercredi	12:30	15:00	45-50
Civilisation TC (Home rule)	VAUGHAN Géraldine	1	A409	Mercredi	15:00	17:30	38-43
Civilisation TC (Obama)	BENOIT Luc	1	A409	Mercredi	15:00	17:30	45-50

Salle pour cours de thème mercredi matin

Nous serons dans L312 (bâtiment Lavoisier). Le cours de version à 10h30 sera dans la même salle.

Captain Cook agrégation anglais 2020 post 23 controversy

Controversy over commemoration of Cook’s expeditions.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/17/hes-a-barbarian-maori-tribe-bans-replica-of-captain-cooks-ship-from-port

Captain Cook agrégation anglais 2020 option civilisation post 22: mariner's instruments

When in Alaska, Cook makes a present to one of the Russian fur traders of a "Hadley's octant". In today's times of GPS satellites, this kind of instrument is of course long forgotten, but at the time could be a matter of life and death for sailors. This eight minute video shows how an octant works.

Thème agrégation septembre 2019

Some students have been sending in their translation for the first passage in the booklet, an extract from one of Anna Gavalda's novels (see blog post below, September 4th). I will try to get them back to people before the class: I generally manage this, but  it is not absolutely guaranteed.

If you receive your work back, you will see that it is marked by a system of negative points (points faute) in which you lose more for more serious mistakes, with grammar problems generally counting as worse than vocabulary problems, which in turn count as worse than register problems.

Someone asked me what the marking scale represents. It is of necessity rather approximate. When the agrégation translation papers are marked a whole team of markers get together and discuss in detail how many points should be taken off for (almost) every conceivable mistake. This takes a long time and a whole team of people and is obviously not possible for our practice translations. So all I can say is 1) the most important thing is to never make the same mistake twice, and in the case of grammar mistakes in particular make sure that the grammar book is thoroughly consulted and that you are sure you have absorbed the grammar point in question (grammar is hard). 2) The students who passed the agrégation with very little difficulty were, by the end of the year, getting around 30 negative points on a translated passage. Over 95 is definitely getting to be problematic.

The suspension of parliament

Interesting times

https://www.liberation.fr/planete/2019/09/10/boris-johnson-perd-son-sixieme-vote-d-affilee-avant-de-suspendre-le-parlement_1750327

Captain Cook agrégation anglais 2020 option civilisation: post 21: crash course

This ten-minute video has a rather particular tone, but is far from being without merit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yXNrLTddME

And, while we are on short videos, here is a very short one on ... 18th century cooking!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdmPIpQZPRg

One view of where Brexit goes next!!

Thème (préparation agrégation, M2)

Bienvenue à la préparation de l'agrégation. Les cours de thème pour la préparation à l'agrégation ont lieu les mercredi matin à 9h. Les six premières semaines, des étudiants M2 recherche suivent également ces cours.

Vous trouverez ici la brochure des textes à traduire, et les instructions sur comment faire. Vous pouvez me poser des questions par mail si besoin.

Apportez le premier texte et votre traduction à la première classe, le 18 septembre.

Captain Cook, agrégation anglais 2020 option civilisation, post 20, controversy

In the Southern hemisphere, Cook is quite frequently in the news. Here is a short article about  a very recent example.

This longer article does not speak of Cook, but of the subsequent massacres.

France 24

Demain j’interviendrai quelques minutes à la télévision pour parler de la situation politique britannique.  À 14h sur France 24 français et à14h30 sur France 24 anglais ...

General election?

Things are speeding up: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/sep/02/brexit-no-10-boris-johnson-ignore-legislation-block-no-deal?CMP=share_btn_fb&fbclid=IwAR31Q9G7vcZpGrurFF2XgSOFkRmaK6hvB-6y2mN7SreTD7OyfXGRFJZ9fOA

Culture, heritage, post-colonial policy

All of these questions are involved in this facsinating political and cultural heritage article about the possible return of the Parthenon marbles from London to Greece.

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/aug/31/greece-sculpture-swap-athens-partheon-elgin-marbles-boris-johnson

Captain cook agrégation anglais 2020 option civilisation. Post 19: recreating Cook's expedition

In the 1990s, a replica of Cook's ship Endeavour was built. It is in fully working order, and can be visited in Sydney. In keeping with a rising trend over recent decades of the interest in "experience" as an object of historical study, a recreation of a part of Cook's first expedition was undertaken a few years later, with a crew of volunteers. This series followed the example of a large number of "historical reality television series" such as "The 1900 House" or "Victorian Slum", which have turned out to be far more popular than had been expected.

The series on Cook's ship is entertaining, as well as having high quality historical content. It opens up a large number of key questions, which you will be looking at in more detail in class and in your reading. Episode 1 is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qo73ByQFoE&t=7s

All the episodes are worth a look, but as you are probably short of time, I do recommend you use one of the many sites which will convert YouTube videos to MP3 files. In this way you can listen to the episodes while knitting  a victory scarf in preparation for your success in the agrégation (for example).

Constitutional crisis

Britain is living through the most severe political and constitutional crisis for many decades, perhaps even centuries. Here is one historical approach to the present situation:

http://theconversation.com/mps-are-threatening-to-barricade-themselves-in-if-boris-johnson-prorogues-parliament-heres-why-they-should-be-taken-seriously-122591?utm_source=facebook&utm_

Captain cook agrégation 2020 option civilisation, post 18: history of the Royal Navy

Frequently, insufficient emphasis is put on the fact that Cook was a military man. This video is episode 3 of an excellent documentary broadcast by the BBC, on the history of the Royal Navy. It shows how horrific eighteenth century wars were, and their importance in transforming the economy and kick starting the industrial revolution. The first part of this episode deals with Cook, and the politics of his expeditions, but the whole episode is well worth watching. Episode 2 of the series is good, too, but deals with an earlier period.
You will find the video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVDuOQVP08o&t=25s

Although the video has good visuals, if you do like I do and use one of the many websites which converts youtube videos to MP3 files, you can listen to it while jogging in the early morning.

Captain Cook agrégation anglais 2020 option civilisation. Post seventeen: questions

Some questions to be thinking about. Some can easily be solved with a quick internet search? Some have no generally agreed answer ...

Why did Cook and his crew have an enormous technological advantage over the native peoples of Tahiti, Hawaii, New Holland etc?

Why did the different peoples die from European diseases, and not the Europeans from their diseases?

Why were Cook’s instructions secret both for the first and the third voyages?

Why did he have just one ship on the first expedition, and two on the second and third expeditions?

Why were there soldiers on board all the expeditions?

What light does Captain Cook’s story throw on the question of the role of the individual in history?

What would you make an axe with if you didn’t have any metal? What about an arrow?

Brexit season 2: Is Winter Coming?

If you  are following the somewhat confusing situation with the British Conservative government and Brexit, you might be interested in some amusing comment from comedian Mark Steel:

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/no-deal-brexit-lib-dem-jo-swinson-corbyn-johnson-a9061271.html?fbclid=IwAR3hoiS5Et-KAVygtAEV3gV8LqPhiNaF1ez-f3xnythH5DcqZi9n3RyIQeA 

Captain Cook agrégation anglais 2020 post sixteen: music

As Cook began his voyage in 1769, his sponsor the earl of sandwich and his milieu might well have been listening to the concerts of the latest music. Like this piece, out that year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Qyp9-Dy49Y

Captain Cook agrégation anglais 2020 option civilisation. Post fifteen: A folk song

The expeditions of Cook have inspired a number of songs over the years. Not all of them are of high quality! This is perhaps one of the better ones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGZlN9EpF3s

Brexit saison 2

If you are unsure what is going to happen in the Uk this autumn, you are not the only one, as the country faces its biggest political crisis for decades, and the Conservative party, the oldest political party in Europe, shatters.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/aug/11/mps-opposing-no-deal-brexit-will-need-new-tactics-report-says

200 years ago: Peterloo

One of the most important protests in British history happened just 200 years ago.
The BBC has made a radio programme about it.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00076tg

Captain Cook agrégation 2020 option civilisation post fourteen: the invention of racism

Naturally to understand the complexity of first contact between "the West" and the native peoples of the places visited by Cook, it is essential to have some idea of where racism came from and how it works. This BBC documentary (part one of a three-part series on the history of racism) is helpful. You will find it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcrcflTCu4Q&

Parts two and three, which are about the 19th and 20th centuries, are also good, but less of a priority when studying Cook's expeditions.

Don’t hesitate to use one of the many sites which will transform a YouTube video into an MP3 file. Then you can work while practising your golf swing. 

Captain Cook agrégation 2020 option civilisation post thirteen: first contacts

No doubt the most important part of Cook's story is the first contacts made with peoples who had not been in touch with the "Western world". By the end of the nineteenth century most peoples had had contact: but not all. This video shows a very recent experience of first contact between a few members of a tribe which had been completely isolated, no doubt for over a thousand years. Naturally today, when the aim of western first contacters is not specifically to take the land, the situation is different, but still thought-provoking. This video is only a few minutes long.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYEoLw93qvk&app=desktop

Captain Cook agrégation anglais 2020 option civilisation post twelve

The SAES  has published a bibliography on Cook's travels. Do not feel intimidated: nobody reads everything!

http://saesfrance.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/2020-AGREG-BIBLIO-COOK.pdf 

Captain Cook agrégation anglais option civilisation post eleven

There is a huge amount of material online about Captain Cook's journeys, and I will be putting together a guide to help you through this jungle (I even found a video which claimed that Cook's journals proved the earth is flat!) Obviously, one must pay attention to the provenance of any material. This is from the British Library website, and concerns the indignenous aboriginals reaction to Cook's arrival.

https://www.bl.uk/the-voyages-of-captain-james-cook/articles/an-indigenous-australian-perspective-on-cooks-arrival

Captain Cook agrégation anglais 2020 option civilisation post ten

For reading the journals themselves, which are rather long, I recommend reading the second and third journeys first, and then the first journey. The accounts of the second and third journeys are more accessible.

Captain Cook agrégation anglais 2020 option civilisation britannique post nine

Over the summer you will be getting familiar with the different subjects on the programme of the agrégation. I highly recommend this round table organized by the British Library in London on the death of Cook. It shows some of the important questions raised. The sound on the video is bad at the beginning but quickly gets better. Listen out in particular for questions raised by a Hawaiian woman ( if I understand correctly) at the end.

The video is here https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UcCCbvXB164&

Don’t hesitate to use one of the many sites which will transform a YouTube video into an MP3 file. Then you can work while doing the family shopping.

Captain Cook agrégation anglais 2020 option civilisation britannique post eight

This may appear a little technical, but it was a matter of life and death to Cook.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_distance_(navigation)

Captain Cook agrégation anglais 2020 option civilisation post seven

Not everyone can go off to Sydney to climb aboard the replica of Captain Cook's  Ship the Endeavour (which I will be doing next week)! But next best is to absorb the atmosphere with this virtual tour.

https://www.sea.museum/anmm_files/VirtualEndeavour/Virtual-Endeavour.html

Captain Cook agrégation anglais 2020 post six

To understand Cook's crew, his voyages and  their consquences, we need some idea of what life was like in 18th century England.  I highly recommend this general book.

The Penguin Social History of Britain: English Society in the Eighteenth Century (Anglais) Broché – 25 octobre 2012

de Roy Porter  (Auteur)

Captain Cook agrégation anglais option civilisation 2020 post five

This short comic video is not about Captain Cook, but it could have been.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wxLPJM0kos&app=desktop

Captain Cook agrégation anglais 2020 option civilisation post four

One of the major questions posed by Cook's voyages is the future of the australian aboriginal peoples. This series of documentaries will give you some good information. There are a number of episodes, but episode one is essential.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_u0eQOPIwQ

concours civilisation GB

If you are planning on taking the CAPES or agrégation in 2020, you need to be thinking about revising, among other things, your knowledge of British history.

You could do worse than start with the history of Wales, covered in these excellent documentaries:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfKYqjempvc&t=100s

Réunion d’information agrégation anglais Rouen 2020

le mercredi 5 juin à 14h30 en salle A 510 il y aura une réunion d’information pour toutes celles et tous ceux qui voudraient suivre la préparation pour l’agrégation d’anglais en 2020. ( interne ou externe). Veuillez faire circuler cette information.

Exceptional newspapers today

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/may/22/desperate-deluded-doomed-what-the-papers-say-on-mays-new-brexit-deal

Revue française de civilisation britannique: Home Rule

Vient de sortir! Notre revue sur la question du Home Rule.

https://crecib.files.wordpress.com/2019/05/hr-1.pdf

Captain Cook agrégation anglais 2020 option civilisation post three

There will be a huge number of commemorative activities to mark the 250th anniversary of Cook's voyages. They will be very varied in  nature and in politics, and the debate should be very lively. Here is a site where you can begin to explore what is going on. 

http://jamescook250.org/ch-3-1st-pacific-voyage-1/commemorations-2019x/

Captain Cook agrégation anglais 2020 option civilisation post two

If you are in London at all, do not miss this small but essential exhibition at the British museum.

https://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/exhibitions/reimagining_captain_cook.aspx

Captain Cook agrégation anglais 2020 option civilisation post one

I will be teaching this option at Rouen, so I am now myself beginning to study it in detail. I will put up here on this blog useful resources, mostly videos.

I recommend converting  the videos to Mp3, to allow you to listen to them while driving, doing the shopping or tidying your home, playing golf or waiting for a bus. This is what I do.

This collection of posts does not replace a serious bibliography, which the SAES normally makes available a little later in the year. In any case, it is essential to read the framing document (here http://media.devenirenseignant.gouv.fr/file/agreg_externe/57/9/p2020_agreg_ext_lve_anglais_1107579.pdf )

and the journals themselves.

Modern language teaching in the UK

is in difficulty https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/may/11/language-exams-how-hard-are-they-and-is-there-a-crisis

L3 Popular music slides and recordings

I do not have all the recordings of all the classes. But on popular music, I posted the first class recording a couple of weeks ago. 

You will find the second class recording here: 

And the slides accompanying all three classes are here :

Just click here

podcast history of British popular music

Café débat Brexit

Aujourd’hui à 17h A401 UFR de Lettres, j’anime pour une association étudiante ACEL un café débat sur le thème du Brexit.

Entrée libre!

How to write about (popular) music ?

This book came out, full of advice about how to write about (popular) music. I wrote a review of it.

Review of : Marc Woodworth and Ally-Jane Grossan (Eds), HOW TO WRITE ABOUT MUSIC , Excerpts from the 33 ^1/3 series, magazines, books and blogs with advice from industry-leading writers, Bloomsbury Academic, New York and London, 2015, 414 pages.

Not a book you get bored with.

Review by John Mullen, Université Paris Est Creteil

Marc Woodworth and Ally-Jane Grossan (Eds), HOW TO WRITE ABOUT MUSIC , Excerpts from the 33 ^1/3 series, magazines, books and blogs with advice from industry-leading writers, Bloomsbury Academic, New York and London, 2015, 414 pages.

Not a book you get bored with, though you might feel irritated almost as often as enlightened. This volume is made up of a large number of short writings on Western popular music, (mostly canonical but sometimes underground), along with endless advice from writers on what to do if you want your writing for fans to be published and paid for. It has been put together by the editors of the 33 1/3 series, an endeavour now counting a hundred books, each analysing one music album from recent decades.

The book has three different aspects. Firstly, it is indisputably itself a rock object. Filled with short and pithy productions with soundbites[1] and neologisms galore, it is often unbearably hip. Right from the foreword, packed with exclamation marks, you know what you are in for. It has all the rock attitudes: sentimentality (“our beloved 33 1/3 series”, write “for love or not at all”); hyperbole (this series has “revolutionized contemporary rock criticism”); melodrama (“great albums still completely fuck my whole life up”; you should write about music “in exactly the same way that you would write a suicide note”); and contradiction (advice from “people who themselves avoided all the advice anyone ever gave them”). The music writers are interviewed as if they were themselves minor rock stars (“How did you land your job?” “How is music writing different?” “Where do you find inspiration?” “Who is your dream interview subject?” “Which three songs, two objects and one novel would you take on a desert island?”) One writer “would so love to take Oscar Wilde out to karaoke”, innit?

Secondly, this is a manual for would-be writers on rock and pop music, featuring a few hundred short paragraphs of advice from a few dozen authors (“expert advice from our writers”). Although the back cover exclaims that the tome is “crammed full of stellar advice”, the tips given are of extremely uneven quality. Some are embarrassingly obvious (for an album review “begin by listening to the disc in question several times”; for the artist interview “don’t read from your notes too much” and in general “Use Google to check your facts”, and “don’t trust Wikipedia as your sole source”). Some are just not interesting (“What was your biggest mistake?” “I totally trashed an album in my college newspaper that later became one of my favorites”; “How has the field of music-writing changed ?” “It’s better in some ways and worse in others - very difficult to say”). One section is actually labelled “offbeat advice” although its contents is sometimes less than wacky (“I always file on time”; “I try to have a clear picture in mind of who reads what I wrote”). In the last pages, one of the star writers seems to undermine the whole exercise: “I think that reading other music writing is often a trap”.

As well as the tips from “industry-leading writers”[2] the reader is provided with a series of “writing prompts” – practice exercises for budding writers (Write an album review about a group you know nothing about; go to a concert and write about it to deadline, write a 2 000 word essay that explores your connection to a single song). Useful for college courses on music writing (I’m assuming such courses exist). Clearly, the editors felt there were a lot of people who would buy a book aimed at helping them to get published. Some of the advice may serve its purpose, this is difficult to judge.

Finally and mostly, the volume is an anthology of 48 pieces of writing on a vast variety of Western popular music of recent decades (with one or two older themes). Different kinds of articles each get a chapter: album reviews, concert reviews, artist interviews, personal essays, artist profiles, scene analyses, musical analyses, “cultural criticism”, and experimental writing (including novelettes based on music albums, and an extract from a graphic novel about Black Flag).

As a whistle-stop tour around today’s journalistic writing on popular music, the book stands up very well. You can read chirpy concert reviews written as if we were all young (“She’s like Chris Ware, except not, except totally.”). The style is sometimes enjoyably creative (“So much sass! Pickup trucks! Dads who are gonna beat up ex-boyfriends! I’LL TAKE IT.”) True, there is also analysis you might find more pompous than illuminating (“Sociology … is an obvious functional drag, particularly when it subverts the move qua move by means of opaque non-magical causality.”) But much of the writing is good. There is an insightful piece on Enya, and a thoughtful piece on computers and music. The best contributions  are those which deal with how the creation of a sense of mythology through music works in Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven”, with the emotional power of drumming and in particular that of The Who’s drummer, Keith Moon, with the “mumfordization of pop”, with Radiohead’s image and music and with dance clubs in Kosovo. An article on how The Beatles chose instruments for “Strawberry Fields Forever” gives a fascinating glimpse of the different factors involved. The application of music theory to Kate Perry’s “Teenage Dream” is very convincing. And one of my favourite pieces speaks against the rock consensus in defence of sentimental music.

Several articles go into on what particular albums meant to particular young people (the writers) at a particular time. This category varies from the touching to the pretentious. But all in all, there is much which is worth reading if, as I have said, accompanied by an editorial tone which is unbearably hip and with practically no analysis of what hip is and why it is. One occasionally gets an image of the music writer as someone who wants to be ever so rock n roll, yet still be at home for the kids every evening, rather than in a rickety old tour bus hundreds of miles away.

The book gives opinion and analysis from 41 men and 4 women (and the 4 women write less than the average male contributor). A less generous or more feminist reviewer than myself might be tempted to suggest the book be re-titled “How men have written about popular music”. This points up a major flaw, since in all the plethoric advice about how to write about music, the question of what to do if you’re a woman writer is not mentioned. This is all the more surprising as one of the editors has previously written a book on women singer-songwriters, so must presumably have a feel for gender issues in the business.[3]

There is plenty to please and educate in here. Many people who read this review are used to writing about music in a less hip manner, since there are in reality many ways of carrying out such a task, but it does us no harm to see how the other half lives.

John Mullen

This review is a draft version of a piece which was written for IASPM Journal.

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[1] “Keep your overhead low and your expectations lower”; “He plays [drums] like D H Lawrence writes”; “Music writing is the crack cocaine of non-fiction writing”; “You could say Punk rock is anger’s schmaltz.”

[2] For an analysis of the industrialization of popular music criticism, and a general view of changes in content due to this industrialization, see Thomas Connor and Steve Jones, “Art to Commerce: the Trajectory of Popular Music Criticism” in IASPM@journal, vol 4 N° 2, 2014, available online www.iaspmjournal.net

[3] Marc Woodford, Solo: Women Singer-Songwriters, New York, Dell, 1998.

Commemoration

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/apr/22/we-must-teach-tolerance-says-stephen-lawrences-mother

L3 What is high culture doing, meanwhile?

One of the most popular (!) events in British high culture... is the series of promenade concerts every year. Here is a review of this year's:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/apr/17/proms-2019-comment-little-to-challenge-or-feel-exceptional

L3 popular culture: illegal raves

On Youtube there are a lot of documentaries about popular music, and many of them are very good (in particular the ones made by the BBC, in the "Britannia" series see here :  https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=BBC+Britannia

And I just discovered this one, on the illegal rave culture in the 21st century in the UK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3t3YnVgY9k&t=159s

The British papers

L3 Popular culture- popular music

We will be having two more classes on popular music. Here is the recording of the one just before the Easter break.

Just click here 

keywords: United Kingdom, popular music, podcast, lecture, cultural studies

Agrégation 2020 option civilisation

If anyone is already thinking about Captain Cook, why not get into the atmosphere by listening to some of the music the British élite were listening to at the time.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pnTESOMJfM&list=PLF90F5207F0F1074A

L3 Popular culture: recordings and slides

You will find here the powerpoint we saw in class on the history of  TV and radio
And here is the recording of the second class on TV (I am still looking for the first one).

Moving onto cinema, the powerpoint is here.

And the Mp3 recording of the class on UK cinema is here.

CAPES chronologie

History is not just dates ... but history is also dates. A good little book for a few euros, if you are not familiar with it.


https://www.amazon.fr/Chronologie-th%C3%A9matique-Grande-Bretagne-2e-%C3%A9dition/dp/2091911062/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_fr_FR=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&keywords=chronologie+th%C3%A9matique&qid=1554382957&s=books&sr=1-1

agrégation: House of Commons procedure

To be more precise, this is what can happen to a bill.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_of_Parliament_(UK)#Stages_of_a_bill

L3 Popular music: Folk and singing about work

In the 1960s, Ewan Maccoll worked on making a new folk music from the lives of ordinary workers. Along with Peggy Seeger. He produced a series of "radio ballads" many of which are available on YouTube, such as this one on fishing folk.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zarl3ecTM_s&list=PLPDCrD_igZmvsd7bvrZSWm4V9BIg2qrUH&index=3

L3 Cultural history

If you want to know more about cultural history, but in French,

see here

https://johncmullen.blogspot.com/2018/04/lhistoire-culturelle-ou-en-sommes-nous.html

Master MEEF Final classes

I hope your written exams went well. We are moving right on to preparing the orals. From the point of view of British civilization, this is not a huge change. I am going to give a little more revision of history in class, and then move on to looking at sample "dossiers", which I will have printed tomorrow.

This week we have a class on Wednesday at 11am in L210, and a class on Thursday from 3.30pm to 6.30 pm (with a short break in the middle) in L315.
Our final  class is on the 24th April at 11am in L210.

There  are themes I have not really had time to revise in class. Here are classes from 2014 on the history of gay rights and identities in the UK. they are not quite up to date, as gay marriage has been authorized since (first in England, Wales and Scotland, and then in the Republic of Ireland - though it is still illegal in Northern Ireland).

https://johncmullen.blogspot.com/2014/12/l1-bloc-2-social-and-ethnic-identities.html

I also recommend this lecture on the Liberal party by an (establishment but fair-minded) lecturer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44ir_D_hD-M&t=78s

Historic front pages today

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/mar/28/im-off-how-the-papers-covered-mays-resignation-offer-and-the-indicative-votes

Fascinating and precise documentary about sikh immigrants to Britain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXKrnUAF7eM

Mémoires héritage ruptures

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-47701876?ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=facebook&ns_campaign=bbcnews&ocid=socialflow_facebook&fbclid=IwAR3uBS_6Po8z7vEm35UVEJ7u6ITjAcEwlA_ViQ6GYB5I-5BUHsmSUPvcfGQ

Brexit

what happens next? This article is a good summary, though it inexplicably omits the obvious option of a general election.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/mar/23/brexit-what-next-critical-week-indicative-votes-revoking-article-50

L3 Popular art/ high art

As we have seen the separation of high art dynamic and popular art dynamic is not so simple. Here is a website with one thought-provoking example. Just click here

MEEF CAPES anglais Idée du progrès podcasts

You will find here the talk on industrial progress. Just click here. 
You will find here the talk I gave on democratic progress:  just click here

In case you prefer audio formats, you will find here an MP3 of the comments on the dossier on Ireland (which is a little further down on this blog). Just click here

Homework MEEF

I have just sent back to students the homework with comments. I have five left to mark which I will send tomorrow at the latest. The mail I send to Mme Yahi came back undelivered.
Once again, good luck for the week's events.

CAPES revision

Best of luck with the written CAPES exams.

You will find here the PowerPoint on the British media

You will find here the PowerPoint on multiculturalism

You will find here the PowerPoint on social wage and welfare progress

This weekend I will add some more recordings of classes.
I will also email you individually your homeworks with a few comments. Note that the mark I give is for the UE of the Master, it is not an estimation of a mark in the concours.

You will find at earlier dates (ie below) some other podcasts and PowerPoints from my classes, etc, including

-a corrigé of the Homework dossier on Ireland.

- some podcasts about the seventeenth century.

- a set of podcasts « Britain since the Romans »

- a collection of news articles on themes connected to « mémoires/héritages/ruptures »

- the class and PowerPoint on mémoire/héritages/ruptures.

- a long article on remembering world war one

mémoire héritage ruptures, contexte international

https://www.letemps.ch/culture/restitutions-doeuvres-dart-africain-inquietent-marche-lart?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=article&fbclid=IwAR0r04_a7Vij8pY1wE4lcAwf5ryQHac9zIJuekobdGNr4jVj_4l9dUSfs9E

M1 LÉA homework

Congratulations on having survived your classroom test. You have now only the homework, which you must send me by the 10th April.

See here http://johncmullen.blogspot.com/2019/03/m1-lea-evaluation-2eme-semestre.html

Master MEEF CLASS TOMORROW

The class tomorrow is in L210!

US news

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/16/maryland-archaeology-study-slave-woman-dna-pipe-sierra-leone

MEEF CAPES marking

It is taking me a long time to mark your homeworks, but some progress is being made. By a very long way the two main problems were not talking enough about what Mary Holland, Tony Blair and David Cameron were trying to do and the methods they were using to try to persuade people, and not showing enough knowledge about the history ( in particular what the British government did during the famine and what happened at the first inquiry into Bloody Sunday, why there was a second one etc.)