English · Lycée général (C1 to C2), Bac pro (B1 to B2)
Session 8: Final task: Thanksgiving, a celebration to keep or a myth to rethink?
Read one step, do it, then move on.
Step 1
Recap check
Recap check
Name two founding texts studied in this sequence.
Who was excluded in 1776?
What happened in Plymouth in 1970?
Answer key
The Mayflower Compact (1620), the Declaration of Independence (1776).
Women, enslaved people, Native nations.
The first National Day of Mourning.
Step 2
Objectives
Use the whole sequence in a structured production
Present several points of view before giving an opinion
Step 3
Documents
Step 4
Task 1
Choose task A or B.
Step 5
Task 2
Prepare: three facts, two points of view, one quotation.
Step 6
Task 3
Peer review with the grid.
Step 7
Gap-fill worksheet
Word bank: commemorationdispossessionmemoryallianceperspective
A public ceremony to remember is a .
Losing one's land is .
A national can change over time.
In 1621 the gathering sealed an .
Each group brings its own .
Answer key
commemoration
dispossession
memory
alliance
perspective
Step 8
Homework
Write the final version of your article or prepare your role card (five key words).
Answer keyModel answer: title, introduction with a question, one paragraph per point of view with dated facts, a nuanced conclusion (on balance...), a reporting structure such as is said to have.