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Concours d’entrée
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Explication d’un texte d’auteur (LV1)
Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Ubervilles
Eugene O’Neill, Mourning Becomes Electra
William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece
Analyse d’un texte hors programme (LV1-LV2)
Les textes proposés sont extraits de :
Newsweek
- Arab-America’s Store (1er/03/2008)
The Boston Globe
- Jeff Jacoby, Big Brother at school (17/10/2007)
- Race to the best in upscale food is really heating up (24/02/2008)
- James Caroll, Religion and nation (15/10/2007)
- Pinning down patriotism (10/10/2007)
The Economist
- To the barricades, darling (8/03/2008)
- Guarding British soil (5/01/2008)
- The Mighty Atom (5/01/2008)
- Hard to swallow (9/02/2008)
- The other mayors (3/05/2008)
- Send out the clowns (19/04/2008)
- The smell of Tony (9/02/2008)
- More unequal than others (15/03/2008)
- Hard cases and slippery slopes (24/05/2008)
- Semi-connected (19/04/2008)
- Come to mama (1er/03/2008)
- The forgotten war (22/03/2008)
- Is it worth it? (1er/03/2008)
- Push-pull (26/01/2008)
- Only in America (26/04/2008)
- Charlton Heston, America’s prophet, died on April 5th, aged 84 (12/04/2008)
- Hope and fear (1er/03/2008)
- Obamaworld versus Hillaryland (8/03/2008)
- The newest frontier (23/02/2008)
- Eyeing the wages of war (15/03/2008)
- Help not wanted (12/04/2008)
- Today’s girls prefer to look sexy rather than be clever (9/12/2007)
- The guys next door (24/05/2008)
- From Brick Lane to the last lane (27/10/2007)
The Guardian
- Within the law. Building a more formal relationship with sharia courts would be a pragmatic way to develop our
multicultural citizenship (15/02/2008)
- Open those gates, Ma’am. London’s greatest green space is hidden behind royal walls. The Queen should let her subjects
in (10/05/2008)
- Adrift in the UK. Thousands of Somalis have come to Britain to seek a better life. The government is doing too little to
help them integrate (5/06/2008)
- Obama’s fate is in the hands of the white working class (11/02/2008)
- Obama is the change that America has tried to hide (1er/04/2008)
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The Independent
- We need to savour our bacon – and here’s how (22/02/2008)
- Facebook can ruin your life. And so can MySpace, Bebo… (10/02/2008)
- Professional Investor : Ethical is good, but sustainable is the real deal (22/03/2008)
The New York Times
- Though It Often Fits, Candidates Run From Elitist Label (31/05/2008)
- In Defense of Lobbying (29/02/2008)
- Diane Ravitch, Get Congress Out of the Classroom (3/10/2007)
- Race and the Social Contract (31/03/2008)
- Primary choices : Hillary Clinton (25/01/2008)
- Op-Ed Contributor – Did Your Shopping List Kill a Songbird? (30/03/2008)
The Observer
- Children should first learn that history begins at home (25/05/2008)
The Washington Post
- Stem Cell Vindication (30/11/2007)
- Importing Poverty (5/09/2007)
- Charles Krauthammer, The speech : A Brilliant Fraud (21/03/2008)
- Teddy Bear Tyranny (4/12/2007)
- Timothy Shriver, No Room At the Inn (25/12/2007)
- Huckabee Plays the Religions Card (7/12/2007)
- The Fabulist Vs. the Saint (4/04/2008)
- Anne Applebaum, When We Wrote Letters (31/07/2007)
- Ambitious to a Fault (18/10/2007)
- Like a Candle in the Wind by Anne Applebaum (4/09/2007)
- A Villain To Our Rescue (24/10/2007)
- How He Can (6/02/2008)
Time
- Shakespeare : A Life on Stage (16/04/2008)
US News & World Report
- News in the Hands of Too Few? (3/01/2008)
- How Consumers Can Force Health Reform (1er/05/2008)
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