November in Review & Youth Stand Up for Human Rights !

credits: UN

https://www.standup4humanrights.org/

Human Rights Day is observed every year on 10 December. It commemorates the day on which, in 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. 

This year, it celebrates the contribution and promise of young people who change the world for the better.

"There are more adolescents and young adults alive today than at any other time in human history and they are generally better educated, healthier and have greater access to technology and information that can be leveraged to stand up for human rights."

credits: UN

https://www.un.org/en/

Youth participation is essential to achieve sustainable development for all. Empowering youth to better know and claim their rights will generate global benefits.

This Human Rights Day highlights the role of young people and their participation in social movements to stand up for human rights and bring change.

Teachers can find UN materials here and some resources and activities in posts of mine written on this blog to celebrate Human Rights Day!

My usual readers know I usually write in English, French and Portuguese. In November, my posts were written in English and French.

And now, time to the review of the most popular posts of November.

Here are the most popular posts of the last month:

History of Europe : The Fall of Berlin Wall : resources 

La BD : On fête l'anniversaire d' Astérix en cours de langues : La Fille de Vercingétorix, par Toutatis ! 

World Science Day For peace and Development ! 

Traditions : Family & friends : Happy Thanksgiving ! 

World Philosophy Day : resources 


Schools : CRC30Years : The 30th Anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child : resources 

Christmas season is there. Hoping you are enjoying to teach your new students! Oh! I see! Time for tests! Remember, students are much more than tests! Be kind, they are fighting for our rights!

"Never too Young to Save the World."

G-Souto

06.10.2019

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November in review : the most read posts of the month & Gaston Lagaffe

Gaston, au delà de Lagaffe

 Franquin © Dargaud-Lombard, 2016

http://www.bpi.fr/agenda/gaston-au-dela-de-lagaffe

My usual readers know I love comics. I write often on my blog. Lucky Luke was the last one I think: Éducation : On fête les 70 ans de Lucky Luke dans la salle de classe? But there are other.

This time, the introduction to my review of the most read post of November is Gaston Lagaffe, the hero created by French cartoonist André Franquin.

At the Centre Beaubourg, in Paris, there is a good  exhibition : Gaston, au de-là de Lagaffe. 

Some information: 

Apparu pour la première fois le 28 février 1957 dans les pages du journal de Spirou, Gaston Lagaffe fête ses soixante ans en 2017. 

Version Originale par Franquin GREG Jidéhem 
© Dupuis 2016

http://culturebox.francetvinfo.fr/

"C’est en lisant des histoires américaines que j’ai appris à dessiner comme à peu près tous les gars de ma génération."

Franquin, citation sur son premier dessin 

Le 'héros sans emploi' créé par Franquin pour animer le journal devient très vite l’un des personnages majeurs de l’épopée Spirou et, sur plus de 900 planches, un véritable classique de la BD.

Gaston, au delà de Lagaffe

 Franquin © Dargaud-Lombard, 2016

catalogue

https://www.dupuis.com/

"L’exposition proposée par la Bibliothèque publique d’information pose un regard neuf sur l’importance de ce personnage qui aura entraîné son créateur très au-delà de la BD jeunesse ; le gaffeur se révélant avec le recul subversif, militant, beatnik, écolo et au final porteur de questionnements très emblématiques de notre époque sur la manière de vivre en société."

Planches et éditions originales, dessins inédits, photographies, inventions et gags en tous genres permettent de redécouvrir un Gaston si proche de chacun d’entre nous, derrière lequel débordent tout le talent et l’audace d’André Franquin.

You have more information here.

Education:

If you are planning a school trip to Paris, you have enough time to prepare a visit at Centre Pompidou to see the exhibition with students.

It will be a fantastic educational resource to teach comics to your students. They will love it.

The exhibition ends on 10 April 2017.

Price: free

The catalogue online

Outils:

Pistes pédagogiques exposition

Gaston au-delà de Lagaffe is the introduction to the compilation of the most popular posts of November. 

Here are the most popular posts of the last month:

Sciences education : here comes the 2nd Supermoon

Schools : World Science Day for Peace & Development 2016 : resources

Education : World Philosophy Day : Past and Present 

Schools : Universal Chidren's Day 

Schools : Thansgiving, a traditional holiday 

Escolas : ler O Código da Vinci, versão juvenil 


Christmas season approaches. You have plenty of tests to evaluate. Be brave! 

Well, I will be back to posting some ideas and educational resources. 


G-Souto 

08.12.2016
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Schools : Thanksgiving ! A traditional holiday in US : Resources

Thanksgiving

illustration : credits Peter H. Reynolds

https://www.facebook.com/peter.h.reynolds

Thanksgiving is celebrated in USA on the last Thursday of November. Families and friends gather around tables to feast and give thanks. 

Thanksgiving Day is an annual national holiday in the United States and Canada celebrating the harvest and other blessings of the past year. 

In the US Thanksgiving is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November while in Canada nearly one month and a half earlier (second Monday of October). 

Thanksgiving has deep roots in religious tradition, but nowadays it is primarily celebrated as a secular holiday.

This holiday has origins dating back nearly 400 years when early American settlers met the Native American Wampanoag people.

Google doodle: Happy Thanksgiving 2016

https://www.google.com/doodles/

"Evocative of American folk art, with quilt-like patterning and simple shapes, today’s Doodle, rendered in a rich harvest-colored palette, is an ode to this season of togetherness."

Thanksgiving Day traditionally kicks off the 'holiday season' in the United States. The day was set in stone by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939 and approved by Congress in 1941. FDR changed it from Abraham Lincoln's designation as the last Thursday in November (because there are sometimes five Thursdays in the month).

• The traditional history:

It was 1620 in Plymouth, Massachusetts when Mayflower colonists and the Wampanoag forged a partnership of necessity. Decimated by an epidemic and wary of the mightier Narragansett, their nearby enemies, the Wampanoag and the newcomers become allies. 

Thanksgiving

illustration of the mythological first Thanksgiving of 1621

Universal History Archive / Getty Images

http://time.com/

The pilgrims were unfamiliar with Massachusetts’ natural resources and ill-equipped for survival - but Tisquantum, an English-speaking Patuxet Wampanoag, taught them how to hunt, gather shellfish, and plant corn, beans, and squash. 

Tisquantum helped the Plymouth colonists learn to cultivate corn

https://en.wikipedia.org/

Following harvest in the fall of 1621, the settlers and the Wampanoag, celebrated what’s considered the “First Thanksgiving,” a three-day feast with wild duck, goose, turkey, deer, and barley ale.

Greetings card

https://www.thanksgiving.quotesms.com/

• Thanksgiving or Turkey Day:

Turkey has become the traditional Thanksgiving fare because at one time it was a rare treat. During the 1830s, an eight- to ten-pound bird cost a day’s wages. Even though turkeys are affordable today, they still remain a celebratory symbol of bounty. 

In fact, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin ate roast turkey in foil packets for their first meal on the Moon.  

Thanksgiving vocabulary

http://00.edu-cdn.com/

Education:

Thanksgiving is a great time to be thankful and appreciate who you have and what you have. 

It is a time for families to meet, socialize and enjoy each other's company, sometimes the only opportunity in a year. 

Some prefer it to Christmas because of less emphasis on consumerism. Thanksgiving, for most, is also a start of a four day weekend which is great, too.

Typical Thanksgiving food includes: pumpkins, yams (sweet potatoes), cranberries and of course an enormous turkey. Scientists recently discovered that Turkey contains a chemical called tryptophan, which causes sleepiness, which explains some, but not all of the napping that Americans do on Thanksgiving day. 

Thanksgiving meals famously include leftovers for the days or weeks after the meal, so you may be eating Turkey for a while. 

Most importantly, the president of the United States, officially pardons a live turkey every year in a televised ceremony, meaning that he or she will not be eaten this year.

So, to my usual readers from the United States, and they are in a great number - thank you! - Happy Thanksgiving to all!

G-Souto

24.11.2016

update 27.11.2025

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Google Doodles

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