You did it! 6e (Bordas) Propositions de références et d'extraits littéraires pour : Middle school is cool (part 2).

Bonjour ! 

Aujourd'hui, je vous propose des propositions d'extraits littéraires authentiques (à adapter selon les besoins de vos élèves) pour la 1re unité de You did it! 6e, intitulée : Middle school is cool. 

Vous pouvez :

* proposer ces extraits à vos élèves en fin d'année, pour faire le point sur ce qu'ils auront appris pendant cette année scolaire,

* proposer ces textes aux élèves qui avancent plus vite que d'autres et ont besoin d'être sollicités davantage,

* proposer ces textes dans un contexte de pédagogie différenciée.

N'hésitez pas à commenter cet article pour :

* me dire comment vous les utilisez,

* me demander d'autres types d'articles qui vous seraient également utiles,

* et pour me motiver afin que je poursuive ces recherches qui sont très chronophages ;)

Aujourd'hui : ce sont des extraits de Diary of a Wimpy Kid (first book) de Jeff Kinney.

📌Excerpt n°1

SEPTEMBER

Tuesday

P. 3

Let me just say for the record that I think middle school is the dumbest idea ever invented. You got kids like me who haven’t hit their growth spurt yet mixed in with these gorillas who need to shave twice a day.

And then they wonder why bullying is such a big problem in middle school.

If it was up to me, grade levels would be based on height, not age.

Topics: GREAT kids, school, bullying

 

📌 Excerpt n°2

SEPTEMBER

Tuesday

P. 4

Today is the first day of school, and right now we’re just waiting around for the teacher to hurry up and finish the seating chart. So I figured I might as well write in this book to pass the time.

By the way, let me give you some advice. On the first day of school, you got to be real careful where you sit. You walk into the classroom and just plunk your stuff down on any old desk and the next thing you know the teacher is saying –

“I hope you all kike where you’re sitting because these are your permanent seats.”

So in this class, I got stuck with Chris Hosey in front of me and Lionel James in back of me.

Topics: GREAT kids, school, first day of middle school

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SEPTEMBER

Friday

Pp. 13-15

Today at school we got assigned reading groups.

They don’t come right out and tell you if you’re in the Gifted group or the Easy group but you can figure it out right away by looking at the book covers of the books they hand out.

I was pretty disappointed to find out I got put in the Gifted group, because that just means a lot of extra work.

When they did the screening at the end of last year, I did my best to make sure I got put in the Easy group this year.

Mom is real tight with our principal, so I’ll bet she stepped in and made sure I got put in the Gifted group again.

Mom is always saying I’m a smart kid, but I just don’t “apply” myself.

But if there’s something I learned from Rodrick (Gregory’s older brother, Greg = the wimpy kid), it's to set people’s expectations real slow so you end up surprising them by practically doing nothing at all.

Topics: GREAT kids, humour, reading groups (typical English class activity)

 

📌Excerpt n°4

SEPTEMBER

Saturday

P. 18

“Want to come to my house and plaayyy?”

I have told Rowley at least a billion times that now that we’re in middle school, you’re supposed to say “hang out”, not “play”. But no matter how many noogies I give him, he always forgets the next time.

Topics: GREAT kids, being popular at school, shame

 

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OCTOBER

Monday

P. 49

Well, it’s finally October, and there are only thirty days left until Halloween. Halloween is my FAVORITE holiday, even though Mom says I’m getting too old to go trick-or-treating anymore.

Topics: Halloween, American spelling (favorite),

 

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NOVEMBER

Thursday

P. 96 and p. 105

(...)  tomorrow I’ve got to audition for the school play. (...)

Thank God Rodrick (Greg’s older brother) won’t be in the audience to see me humiliate myself. Mrs. Norton said the play is going to be a “semiformal occasion”, and I know there’s no way Rodrick is going to wear a tie for a middle school play.

Topics: school play, bullying, being self-conscious

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JANUARY

Monday

Pp. 145-146

Last week we started the third quarter at school, so now I have a whole bunch of new classes. One of the classes I signed up for is something called Independent Study.

I WANTED to sign up for Home Economics 2, because I was pretty good at Home Ec 1.

But being good at sewing does not exactly you popularity points at school.

Anyway, this Independent Study is an experiment they’re trying out at our school for the first time.

The idea is that the class gets assigned a project, and then you have to work on it together with no teacher in the room for the whole quarter.

The catch is that when you’re done, everyone in your group gets the same grade. I found out that Ricky Fisher is in my class, which could be a big problem.

Topics: new classes (differences between the French and American school systems), humour, irony, being popular

 

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JANUARY

Thursday

P. 150-151

[...] in school today they had a general assembly and showed the movie “It’s Great to Be Me,” which they show us every year.

The movie is all about how you should be happy with who you are and not change anything about yourself.

To be honest with you, I think that’s a really dumb message to be telling kids, especially the ones at my school.

Later on, they made an announcement that there are some openings on the safety Patrols, and that got me thinking.

If someone picks on a Safety Patrol, it can get them suspended. The way I figure it, I can use any extra protection I can get.

Plus I realized that maybe being in a position of authority could be good for me.

Topics: GREAT kids, general assembly, “body positivity”, being positive about oneself, humour, the safety patrols, suspension

 

📌Excerpt n°9

FEBRUARY

Wednesday

P. 164

Today at school they announced there’s an opening for the cartoonist job in the school paper. There’s only one comic slot, and up until now this kid named Bryan Little has been hogging it all to himself.

Topics: GREAT kids, school paper/magazine, creativity

📌Excerpt n°10

APRIL

Monday

Pp. 196-197

Lately I’ve been hanging out in Rodrick’s room after school and going through his stuff. The other day, I found one of his middle school yearbooks.

(...) the page in Rodrick’s yearbook that’s really interesting is the Class Favorites page.

That’s where they put the pictures of the kids who get voted Most Popular and Most Talented and all that.

Topics: crazy teachers, school yearbooks, spelling of “favorite”.

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