Oral presentation guideline
Tronc commun Bac
L/ES/S
The exam
• T ES / S:
• You will randomly pick 1 of the 4 notions:
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Myths and heroes
Places and forms of power
The idea of progress
Spaces and exchanges
• You will have 10 minutes to get ready to present
the notion, find an essay question to talk about 34 documents you have studied for 5 minutes.
• Then you will have to answer questions for 5
minutes
The exam
• TL
• You will randomly pick 1 of the 4 notions:
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–
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–
Myths and heroes
Places and forms of power
The idea of progress
Spaces and exchanges
• You will have 10 minutes to get ready to present the
notion, find an essay question to talk about 3-4
documents you have studied for 10 minutes.
• Then you will have to answer questions for 10 minutes
• You can have access to your documents (with no notes
on them)
Prepare a plan in advance
• For each of the 4 notions:
(1 worksheet by notion)
• Find a definition (in a dictionary)/ explain what the notion
means for you, in which context will you develop it? (write
it down on a separate worksheet for each of the 4 notions)
• Find 3-4 documents from the lessons that you would like to
talk about.
• Write their titles / author / page number on the
corresponding worksheet.
Example:
Notion: The idea of progress.
• Definition: a movement toward a goal or to a
further or higher stage.
Growth or development; continuous
improvement. (selected from dictionary.com)
• For me, progress involves an effort to change
an unfair situation, to have more equality…
Documents
• The documents I have chosen:
• - desperate housewives opening credits (paintings)
• The 2 texts from the bac 2014: Erin Kaye, Closer to
home and The NY Times August 10/2012
• « The punch press operator » book p48
• So my key ideas will be: men/women stereotypes, men
and women at home and at work / + the role of
machines in the evolution of these roles and
stereotypes
The Essay question / Guideline:
• Find an essay question or guideline that will
help you make a link between the documents
and the notion.
• Ex: To what extent/how have the stereotypical
roles of men and women evolved, what were
the key factors of progress in the
representation of men and women in our
society?
Develop / Demonstrate
• Find 2/3 titles for the 2/3 parts of your
demonstration
• Write 5 key words next to the documents you
will mention in each part of your
demonstration.
• Write a conclusion to answer your essay
question (recap): we have shown that… It
appears that…
Ex: plan for demonstration
• Part 1: The ancestral roles of men and women: stereotypical
representations
– Paintings: motherhood / chores / private sphere for women.
Original sin, temptation.
– Text 1: running the house (woman) / support the family (man)
– Text 2: women careers, ambition, stay at home dad
• Part 2: The role of machines (technical progress) in allowing
more equality between the genders at home and at work ( can
be separated into 2 parts)
- Paintings: consumer society, easier chores, less time spent at home, need
more money to buy more, 2 incomes
-Punch press operator: Machines: more powerful that men, women can do
rough tasks as well, manpower replaced by mechanical power.
Industrialization.
Conclude
• We have seen that…
• It clearly appears that…
• Social progress is linked to technical progress.
• Changes in society like the 2WWars or consumer society
also changed the traditional roles of men and women.
• Ouverture: de nos jours / dans l’actualité / dans d’autres
pays…
• Today, however, women haven’t reached parity yet (their
salary is still inferior, they need to claim what is theirs…)