Terminale AMC : écriture créative en anglais

Les Tle AMC (Anglais Monde Contemporain) de Mme Dupont ont commencé l’année par un chapitre sur l’Australie : “de la dépossession à la réconciliation”.

Ils ont notamment étudié des extraits du roman Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence de Doris Pilkington (1996) qui se focalise sur les “Générations volées”.

Dans un extrait, Rosie découvre l’internat où elle a été envoyée après qu’un fonctionnaire l’a enlevée à ses parents. Martha lui fait découvrir une école pas comme les autres, un lieu très lugubre.

Les élèves ont travaillé l’exercice d’écriture créative et ont dû imaginer ce que Rosie a pu écrire dans son journal intime à l’issue de sa première journée à l’école.

Voici la meilleure rédaction, rédigée en classe par Lyna MOSBAH, TG6 :

- Monday, xx September of xxxx

Dear diary,

It was the worst. I thought they told me this place would be some sort of home, a place where I would be protected... Isn’t that what a school is supposed to be ?

They keep lying to me ! All of them !

How is it that getting yourself locked up, your hair pulled, cut, seeing your classmate get hit and insulted is normal here ?

I want to run away.

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This morning a girl named Martha kindly helped me around the school so that I would be able to navigate by myself without struggling...

All my expectations were wrong. First thing in the morning I learned a schoolmate got locked up because of insulting the teacher or whatnot, Martha told me it was to be expected. I am perplexed by the excessive punishments.

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Then I had to look around the ruined offices of the school. The dormitory was cold, moist, and very… unwelcoming, even the classrooms and teachers were awful...

I hate it here, once again I am going to live hell on earth to simply survive.

The short classes I had were only about how great the British people were, and how we were wrong for not being like them, and if we dare say a word, like I did, you’d get hit hard on the head then insulted by the ‘teachers’, it’s so unfair.

I hope this all ends soon enough. I am so scared for the future.