Sujet 2 - Partie 1 · Bac Anglais Métropole 2024
Thème : Synthèse du dossier — Expression et construction de soi · Tiré du sujet Métropole France (2024)
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Document A
‘She believed in every one of us’: ex-pupils on their inspirational teachers
“So bloody cool, so engaging.” That’s how Adele described her English teacher at Chestnut Grove school in Balham, south-west London, Ms McDonald, when asked who had inspired her.
Answering a question from the actor Emma Thompson during ITV’s An Audience With Adele on Sunday, Adele said: “She really made us care, and we knew that she cared about us and stuff like that.”
Images of the singer breaking down in tears when McDonald surprised her on stage at the London Palladium have gone viral, triggering conversations about the impact teachers can have on the lives of their pupils.
Max Daniels, 28, a communications consultant who lives in London, described how the humanity shown by his teacher Miss Coyle had a lasting impact. “Miss Coyle was this upbeat, enthusiastic Irish woman who taught me English and media studies,” he said. “I could go on about how fun she made classes or how she injected life into her lessons, but the impact they had was far more personal.
“My father passed away when I was 14 and, during a parents’ evening shortly after, Miss Coyle gave my mum a huge hug. It was something that made me realise how much she cared about the lives of the people she taught.
“Even though she was a teacher and had a professional role to fill, it made me realise that it shouldn’t stop you from being human, from being caring. It’s something I think about in my professional career. It’s so easy to be the cold professional with your job, but actually caring about the lives, achievements and successes of people around you doesn’t hurt your job. If anything, it makes you work better with people.
“As the classic secondary school loser – someone you could have pulled from The Inbetweeners 2 – Miss Coyle made me feel important even when people around me would make me feel the opposite.” […]
Sophie Smith-Tong, 37, a primary school teacher who lives in London and the founder of a centre for educators and their families, Mindfulness for Learning, said her teacher Ms Rea changed her journey in education.
“We met at 13 when in a drama lesson she has dressed up a classroom as a police station,” she said. “Starting here, she has continued to inspire me throughout my life. She is the reason that I realised I could apply to go to uni and that I had something to offer even though I felt so different to all of my peers.
“She took me to perform my first professional theatre production at the Edinburgh festival at 16. She believed in every single one of us and it gave us the space to fly our own individual journeys. We are still friends 24 years on and she still has a major impact on the life decisions I make today. She is the reason I created Mindfulness for Learning.”
Jamie Grierson, The Guardian, 22 nd November, 2021.
2 The Inbetweeners: a British TV show which documents the lives of British teenagers.
Document B
The Logical Song
When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful
A miracle, oh, it was beautiful, magical
And all the birds in the trees, well they'd be singing so happily
Oh, joyfully, oh, playfully watching me
5 But then they sent me away to teach me how to be sensible
Logical, oh, responsible, practical
Then they showed me a world where I could be so dependable
Oh, clinical, oh, intellectual, cynical
There are times when all the world's asleep
10 The questions run too deep
For such a simple man
Won't you please, please tell me what we've learned?
I know it sounds absurd
Please tell me who I am
15 I said, now, watch what you say, they'll be calling you a radical
A liberal, oh, fanatical, criminal
Oh, won't you sign up your name? We'd like to feel you're acceptable
Respectable, oh, presentable, a vegetable
Oh, take, take, take it, yeah
20 But at night, when all the world's asleep
The questions run so deep
For such a simple man
Won't you please (oh, won't you tell me)
Please tell me what we've learned?
25 (Can you hear me?) I know it sounds absurd
(Oh, won't you tell me) please tell me who I am
Who I am, who I am, who I am
Ooh, Hey
'Cause I was feeling so logical
30 Yeah
D-D-D-D-D-Digital
Yeah, one, two, three, five
Oh, oh, oh, yeah
Ooh, it's getting unbelievable
35 Yeah
Getting, getting, yeah, yeah
Uh, uh, uh, uh.
Richard DAVIES & Roger HODGSON (co-creators of Supertramp rock band),
lyrics of “The Logical Song”, 1979.
Document C
SUJET 2
Thématique: « Expression et construction de soi »
Partie 1: Synthèse du dossier, en anglais (16 points)
Prenez connaissance de la thématique ci-dessus et du dossier composé des documents A, B et C et répondez en anglais à la consigne suivante (500 mots environ):
Paying particular attention to the specificities of the three documents, show how they interact to reflect on the impact of education on learners.
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Paying particular attention to the specificities of the three documents, show how they interact to reflect on the impact of education on learners.
Réponse : Sample synthesis (approx. 500 words): The three documents in this dossier deal with the theme "Expression and self-construction" and explore the double-edged influence of education on the construction of identity. Education is usually seen as a path towards knowledge and adulthood. Yet a newspaper article, a rock song and a painting show that school can either nurture a learner's individuality or impose a stifling conformity. First, education can be a catalyst for self-discovery and empowerment when it relies on caring teachers. In Document A, an article by Jamie Grierson published in The Guardian in 2021, former pupils pay tribute to inspirational teachers. They are the singer Adele, a communications consultant (Max Daniels) and a primary school teacher (Sophie Smith-Tong). Ms McDonald "really made us care", and Miss Coyle showed "humanity" when Max's father died. She also made this self-described "classic secondary school loser" feel important. Ms Rea gave Sophie, who felt "so different" from her peers, the confidence to go to university and to found Mindfulness for Learning. The testimonies stress that the impact of these teachers was personal and long-lasting, far beyond academic content. At first sight, Norman Rockwell's 1934 illustration The Spirit of Education (Document C) seems to celebrate the same idealistic transmission. A smiling young teacher stands affectionately behind a boy and adjusts the sash bearing the words "The Spirit of Education". The boy holds a heavy book and a torch, classical symbols of knowledge and enlightenment. However, the dossier also presents education as a coercive process of socialization. Supertramp's "The Logical Song" (1979, Document B) contrasts the speaker's childhood, when life was "wonderful", "magical" and "beautiful", with what happened when "they sent me away" to be made "sensible, logical, responsible, practical". The pronoun "they" depersonalizes the institution. The accumulation of rhyming adjectives in -al mimics a mechanical, standardizing process, which ends in the ironic "acceptable, respectable, presentable, a vegetable". Conformity is achieved at the cost of the speaker's identity. This critical reading sheds new light on Rockwell's painting. The boy's sulky frown and sideways glance suggest he is a reluctant participant. He is dressed up in an ill-fitting Greek tunic and sandals, his everyday clothes lie discarded on the floor, and he holds the torch awkwardly like a burden. The teacher's satisfied smile contrasts with his discomfort, humorously revealing the gap between adults' lofty ideals and the child's own experience. Ultimately, the documents interact to question the purpose of education. When it is reduced to a mould that produces "dependable" individuals, school may leave learners estranged from themselves. Supertramp's anguished plea expresses this: "Please tell me what we've learned? [...] Please tell me who I am". Conversely, when it is grounded in genuine human relationships, education fosters confidence, resilience and self-expression. As Sophie Smith-Tong puts it, a caring teacher gives pupils "the space to fly our own individual journeys". Thus the impact of education on learners depends less on the institution itself than on whether it recognizes each pupil as a unique person.
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