cafe70 - Café pédagogique

L'exécution de Michael Morales en Californie vient d'être repoussée car un jugement exige
que, selon la loi, le condamné ne souffre pas. Comme aucun membre du corps médical
n'accepte de participer à l'exécution, la sentence ne peut donc pas être exécutée.
Lisez ces infos, qui pourraient conduire à l'abolition de la peine de mort:
- from the San Francisco Chronicle
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/02/23/EXECUTE.TMP
- from the New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/23/national/23execute.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
- from Xinhua (China)
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-02/23/content_4217724.htm
- from the Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1715952,00.html
Voici des sites avec des cartes, des explications et des statistiques pour tout comprendre sur
la peine de mort aux USA:
http://teacher.deathpenaltyinfo.msu.edu/
http://www.trinity.edu/~mkearl/death-5.html
http://www.justicelearning.org/viewissue.asp?issueID=3# (with a good timeline, click
"interactive timeline" on the right)
http://www.aclu.org/capital/facts/10534res20050429.html (Q&A)
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?did=199&scid=15 (history)
http://justice.uaa.alaska.edu/death/history.html ( plus statistics)
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/cp.htm (last official statistics)
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?scid=5&did=184 (race of death row inmates
executes since 1976)
Un document en pour faire réfléchir les étudiants de bon niveau:
http://www.activevoice.net/pdf/Deadline%20Resource%20Guide.pdf
Et l'incontournable site de Michèle Henry, avec une webquest :
http://www.ac-nancy-metz.fr/enseign/anglais/Henry/deathpen.htm
http://www.ac-nancymetz.fr/enseign/anglais/Henry/webquests/Death%20Penalty/deathpenwq.htm
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- Walk the Line
Walk the Line is James Mangold's movie about Johnny Cash, his life and the music of the late
60's, with a love story and splendid actress Reese Witherspoon. I'm not sure this film will
captivate the students, but I think you may enjoy it as a holiday entertainment. The actors do
their own singing and playing and the review are rather good. It will be released on February
15th in France.
If you want to use it in class, the BBC offers an audio file with an interview of Reese
Witherspoon about the music in the film. The page is complete, with questions to think of
while listening, a script and some vocabulary
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/radio/specials/1446_entertainment/