The Wild West - Westerns by Jeanne Farthouat https://padlet.com/jeanne_farthouat/vh5unu41kpj8 How has the representation of Indians evolved in Westerns? en-us 2019-05-19 19:41:31 UTC 2025-03-30 20:17:33 UTC hello@padlet.com Golden rules jeanne_farthouat https://padlet.com/jeanne_farthouat/vh5unu41kpj8/wish/361532263 2019-05-19 19:42:40 UTC https://padlet.com/jeanne_farthouat/vh5unu41kpj8/wish/361532263 Your task jeanne_farthouat https://padlet.com/jeanne_farthouat/vh5unu41kpj8/wish/361532304 Follow the steps depending on the extract attributed to you.

Your final work will be the format of your choice. Only constraints:
  1. Your work will be WRITTEN expression
  2. Minimum 200 words
  3. Make sentences, not lists or key words
  4. Something that you can print or I can print (if you send it in advance). 

To do this work, you will have 2 computer room sessions : 
  • 1ère G6 (ES2&S2) >>> Monday, May 27th
  • 1ère G3 (S1&L1) >>> Monday, June 3rd
]]> 2019-05-19 19:42:52 UTC https://padlet.com/jeanne_farthouat/vh5unu41kpj8/wish/361532304 STEP 1: The poster jeanne_farthouat https://padlet.com/jeanne_farthouat/vh5unu41kpj8/wish/361533420 What do you expect in the movie?]]> 2019-05-19 19:51:16 UTC https://padlet.com/jeanne_farthouat/vh5unu41kpj8/wish/361533420 STEP 1: The poster jeanne_farthouat https://padlet.com/jeanne_farthouat/vh5unu41kpj8/wish/361533823 What do you expect in the movie?]]> 2019-05-19 19:54:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jeanne_farthouat/vh5unu41kpj8/wish/361533823 STEP 1: The poster jeanne_farthouat https://padlet.com/jeanne_farthouat/vh5unu41kpj8/wish/361533915 What do you expect in the movie?]]> 2019-05-19 19:54:55 UTC https://padlet.com/jeanne_farthouat/vh5unu41kpj8/wish/361533915 STEP 2: The plot jeanne_farthouat https://padlet.com/jeanne_farthouat/vh5unu41kpj8/wish/361534027 Make research on the plot of the movie. 
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1003119_broken_arrow]]> 2019-05-19 19:55:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jeanne_farthouat/vh5unu41kpj8/wish/361534027 STEP 2: The plot jeanne_farthouat https://padlet.com/jeanne_farthouat/vh5unu41kpj8/wish/361534210 Make research on the plot of the movie.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/little_big_man

Jack Crabb (Little Big Man) tells his story where he did everything to survive and became all the stereotypes of the West (homesteader, Indian, Christian man, soldier, Indian again, gunfighter, Indian again, etc.).]]> 2019-05-19 19:57:00 UTC https://padlet.com/jeanne_farthouat/vh5unu41kpj8/wish/361534210 STEP 2: The plot jeanne_farthouat https://padlet.com/jeanne_farthouat/vh5unu41kpj8/wish/361534456 Make research on the plot of the movie.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dances_with_wolves]]> 2019-05-19 19:58:51 UTC https://padlet.com/jeanne_farthouat/vh5unu41kpj8/wish/361534456 STEP 3: The context of the extract jeanne_farthouat https://padlet.com/jeanne_farthouat/vh5unu41kpj8/wish/361534658 This extract is at the beginning of the movie. The main character just saved a young Apache (Indian) who decides to go home because his mother is probably crying because he didn't come back. But as he leaves, men from the tribe meet them.]]> 2019-05-19 20:00:05 UTC https://padlet.com/jeanne_farthouat/vh5unu41kpj8/wish/361534658 STEP 4: Watch the extract jeanne_farthouat https://padlet.com/jeanne_farthouat/vh5unu41kpj8/wish/361534772 Watch the whole extract. Even if it is long, you do not need to go into detail, just focus on how Indians are represented. [See green box to help you]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzusCW9x91k]]> 2019-05-19 20:01:02 UTC https://padlet.com/jeanne_farthouat/vh5unu41kpj8/wish/361534772 STEP 5: Research jeanne_farthouat https://padlet.com/jeanne_farthouat/vh5unu41kpj8/wish/361534794 1. What is the context of the film? 
2. Who is the real screenwriter of this movie? 
3. What is he famous for? (link between research 1 and 2) Can you find a link between the screenwriter and the representation of Indians in this movie?]]> 2019-05-19 20:01:10 UTC https://padlet.com/jeanne_farthouat/vh5unu41kpj8/wish/361534794 STEP 6: Your written expression jeanne_farthouat https://padlet.com/jeanne_farthouat/vh5unu41kpj8/wish/361535558 Choose the format that you want (article, internet page to present the movie, flyer, comic book, etc.) and using all your work from step 1 to step 5, present in a structured and simple way your movie for the rest of the class >>> make it understandable for someone who has not seen the extract !]]> 2019-05-19 20:07:21 UTC https://padlet.com/jeanne_farthouat/vh5unu41kpj8/wish/361535558 STEP 6: Your written expression jeanne_farthouat https://padlet.com/jeanne_farthouat/vh5unu41kpj8/wish/361535920 Choose the format that you want (article, internet page to present the movie, flyer, comic book, etc.) and using all your work from step 1 to step 5, present in a structured and simple way your movie for the rest of the class >>> make it understandable for someone who has not seen the extract !]]> 2019-05-19 20:10:09 UTC https://padlet.com/jeanne_farthouat/vh5unu41kpj8/wish/361535920 STEP 6: Your written expression jeanne_farthouat https://padlet.com/jeanne_farthouat/vh5unu41kpj8/wish/361535950 Choose the format that you want (article, internet page to present the movie, flyer, comic book, etc.) and using all your work from step 1 to step 5, present in a structured and simple way your movie for the rest of the class >>> make it understandable for someone who has not seen the extract !]]> 2019-05-19 20:10:26 UTC https://padlet.com/jeanne_farthouat/vh5unu41kpj8/wish/361535950 STEP 3: The extract jeanne_farthouat https://padlet.com/jeanne_farthouat/vh5unu41kpj8/wish/361535984 In this extract, Little Big Man lives happily with the Indians in peace and the cavalry of General Custer attack them by surprise and massacre the whole village. ]]> 2019-05-19 20:10:39 UTC https://padlet.com/jeanne_farthouat/vh5unu41kpj8/wish/361535984 STEP 4: Watch the extract jeanne_farthouat https://padlet.com/jeanne_farthouat/vh5unu41kpj8/wish/361536116 Watch from 1h30 to 1h37min50sec
[Ask for the video on flashdrive in class]
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3mnrp8]]> 2019-05-19 20:11:39 UTC https://padlet.com/jeanne_farthouat/vh5unu41kpj8/wish/361536116 STEP 5: Research jeanne_farthouat https://padlet.com/jeanne_farthouat/vh5unu41kpj8/wish/361536136 1. What is the context of the 1970s in the USA?
2. Research the My Lai massacre. Is there a link between the movie and this event?]]> 2019-05-19 20:11:53 UTC https://padlet.com/jeanne_farthouat/vh5unu41kpj8/wish/361536136 HELP ! jeanne_farthouat https://padlet.com/jeanne_farthouat/vh5unu41kpj8/wish/361538391 On the extract
  1. What is the relationship between the main character and the Indians? Between the other white men and the Indians?
  2. Is the relationship between white people and Indians the same always? What cause a change in the attitude of Indians?
  3. Focus on one of the last sentences "it was war and there was terrible cruelty on both sides". Is there a link between this and the context when the movie came out?

More information on the movie ...
  1. Look at the image attached below. How are the two characters filmed? Is it the same as John Ford's movies?
  2. Research the actor for the Indian chief (Cochise) >>> is there a change between this movie and John Ford's movies?
]]> 2019-05-19 20:30:56 UTC https://padlet.com/jeanne_farthouat/vh5unu41kpj8/wish/361538391 HELP ! jeanne_farthouat https://padlet.com/jeanne_farthouat/vh5unu41kpj8/wish/361539148
  • What is happening in the extract? Who are the villains here? Is it similar to or different from the films of John Ford?
  • Look at the photo below. It is a photo from the My Lai massacre in Vietnam. Can you see a link between this photo and the movie? 
  • Why did the film director decide to make a link?
  • Which famous group of people / movement was against the Vietnam War? Why is it important in this movie?
    • ]]>     2019-05-19 20:37:30 UTC https://padlet.com/jeanne_farthouat/vh5unu41kpj8/wish/361539148     STEP 5: Research jeanne_farthouat https://padlet.com/jeanne_farthouat/vh5unu41kpj8/wish/361541274
  • Who was Buffalo Bill? What is he famous for?
  • Why did the US Army (by hiring hunters like Buffalo Bill) massacre the buffalo?
    • Get more information by reading this article : https://allthatsinteresting.com/buffalo-slaughter
    ]]>     2019-05-19 20:54:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jeanne_farthouat/vh5unu41kpj8/wish/361541274     STEP 3: Extract n°1 jeanne_farthouat https://padlet.com/jeanne_farthouat/vh5unu41kpj8/wish/361541617 Context : John Dunbar visits the Indians very often (he almost lives with them) and he discovers life on the camp. During this visit, we see the Indians making camp, and then bringing John Dunbar with them to observe the buffalo herd they are going to hunt to get food, blankets and so on.

    Focus on the life on the Indian camp and the relationship between Indians and the buffalo.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTVbL5iMNO8]]>     2019-05-19 20:57:30 UTC https://padlet.com/jeanne_farthouat/vh5unu41kpj8/wish/361541617     STEP 4: Extract n°2 jeanne_farthouat https://padlet.com/jeanne_farthouat/vh5unu41kpj8/wish/361541962 Context : the Indians and John Dunbar find the herd of buffalo completely massacred, meaning that they will probably starve if they don't find more food and blankets for the winter.

    Focus on the images we see. Why is it shocking? How do the characters react?
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkDqzpNsg6U]]>     2019-05-19 21:01:02 UTC https://padlet.com/jeanne_farthouat/vh5unu41kpj8/wish/361541962     HELP ! jeanne_farthouat https://padlet.com/jeanne_farthouat/vh5unu41kpj8/wish/361542354
  •  Why is the buffalo so important to the Indians?
  • How are the white people described in the end of the second extract? Is it interesting because of the narrator?
  • What does this movie show us about the evolution of the representation of Indians in westerns?
    • ]]>     2019-05-19 21:04:03 UTC https://padlet.com/jeanne_farthouat/vh5unu41kpj8/wish/361542354     https://padlet.com/jeanne_farthouat/vh5unu41kpj8/wish/361752503 2019-05-20 14:29:55 UTC https://padlet.com/jeanne_farthouat/vh5unu41kpj8/wish/361752503 https://padlet.com/jeanne_farthouat/vh5unu41kpj8/wish/361752535 Zoé Grandemange]]> 2019-05-20 14:29:59 UTC https://padlet.com/jeanne_farthouat/vh5unu41kpj8/wish/361752535 https://padlet.com/jeanne_farthouat/vh5unu41kpj8/wish/362859497 2019-05-23 09:55:31 UTC https://padlet.com/jeanne_farthouat/vh5unu41kpj8/wish/362859497 https://padlet.com/jeanne_farthouat/vh5unu41kpj8/wish/364851142 2019-05-31 09:23:41 UTC https://padlet.com/jeanne_farthouat/vh5unu41kpj8/wish/364851142