| Session | Première | Terminale | C1/C2 extension | Bac pro |
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| 1. Whose land? Before the colonies | Guided description with five prompts. | Add modals of deduction: it may have been painted to... | Analyse the painting as a construction of national memory (Art et pouvoir). | Describe the picture orally in pairs. |
| 2. Jamestown, 1619: an assembly and the first enslaved Africans | Timeline with three dates to complete. | Explain the paradox in a paragraph with whereas and while. | Discuss how national stories choose a starting date (1607, 1619 or 1620). | Present the two events orally in one minute. |
| 3. Plymouth, 1620: the Mayflower Compact | Key words highlighted, three questions. | Compare with Rousseau's Social Contract (1762). | Read the full text on the Avalon Project and discuss its religious vocabulary. | Compare with the rules of a workplace or a team. |
| 4. Owning the land: Locke, deeds and the Walking Purchase | Table with words to sort. | Write a paragraph with however and nevertheless. | Read Locke, chapter V, and discuss the limits of a theory of property. | Link to land registers and contracts today. |
| 5. From harvest to holiday: how Thanksgiving was made | Read the quotation with a glossary. | Compare Winslow and Lincoln: aims and audience. | Discuss invented traditions (Hobsbawm) and national myths. | Present a three-date timeline orally. |
| 6. Other voices: a National Day of Mourning | Short extracts with glossary. | Write a balanced paragraph. | Read the full speech and analyse its rhetoric. | Debate in pairs with given arguments. |
| 7. From the colonies to 1776: who was included? | Timeline 1215, 1689, 1765, 1776. | Paragraph comparing two quotations. | Read Locke and Montesquieu and discuss their influence and their blind spots. | Oral role play of the town meeting. |
| 8. Final task: Thanksgiving, a celebration to keep or a myth to rethink? | Article frame with prompts, 150 words. | 250 words, two points of view. | C1/C2: 400 words with concession and rebuttal, quoting Wamsutta and Lincoln. | Role play in pairs with role cards. |