RESOURCES TO SUPPORT ‘L'OCCUPATION' MODULE
AudioCassettes
Films/Videos/ DVDs
Web resources
Teaching resources
French historyresources
English history resources
French Literature
* = recommended in Edexcel syllabus
Websites
Resource / Syllabus links / Activities / NotesAshcombe school :
- click on Subject Links -French -KS5- Themes
Multimedia – CD ROMs
Resource / Syllabus links / Activities / NotesAudio cassettes
Resource / Syllabus links / Activities / NotesMiss Lobry’s grandmother’s conversation! / 1a 1,2,3,4 / L/C
Transcript – reported speech
Video
Resource / Syllabus links / Activities / NotesVideo: Journal d’occupation – comment vivaient les Parisiens dans Paris occupé / 1a 1,2,3,4
1c 11 / Watch and take notes as evidence / justification
Film: Le Dernier Métro / 1a and 1b / daily life – ideology (anti jew) resistance
Film: Au revoir les enfants (Malle) – / 1a and all / for daily life + collaobration
Film: Laissez-Passer (DVD) / general interest – reinforces daily life, dilemmas, resistance, jews. Excellent documentary where director (Tavernier) discusses making of the film and occupied France.
Film: Le Corbeau (DVD) / General interest / Film made by Continental during the war – controversial – could be seen as criticism of denunciations during Vichy regime. Interesting irony that Continental films were more liberal than Vichy.
Film: Lucie Aubrac (Berry) / Resistance / for resistance
Film: Pétain (Marboeuf) / Collaboration / for collaboration- excellent account – makes sequence memorable – interesting perspective on Laval as being more honest than Pétain …
Film: Un Héros très discret (Audiard) / Collaboration / resistance / good story – end of the war – interesting questions – shows that resistance movements not necessarily unified
Film: Lacombe Lucien (Malle)) / collaboration
extracts from "Allo, Allo" the English comedy series.
Un FTP dans la Résistance (Maurice Moitel) (27.44 euros – Invalides bookshop) CRDP de Haute-Normandie / Resistance / 30 minute video - Gustave Avisse nous relate s avie de Résistant chez les Francs-Tireurs et Partisans de 1940 à 1945: témoignages, reconstitutions, images d’archives nous permettent de suivre l’itinéraire engangé d’unHavrais jusqu’à la libération de Paris
Film: Jean Moulin (Yves Boisset) / Resistance / I haven’t watched ityet
Film: La guerre en couleurs / The same as the UK version in colour, but with French audio.
Film: la traversée de Paris (Claude Autant-Lara) / General / Un chef d’oeuvre. Malgré l’anticonformismte de Claude Autant-Lara, la peinture la plus réaliste que l’om ait faite d’une certaine mentalité française sous l’occupation allemande. On se souviendra toujours de l’affrontement de Gabin et de Bourvil avec le trafiquant de marché noir interpreté par Louis de Funès. Un trio irremplaçable et inoubliable.
Film: La Grande Vadrouille (Gérard Oury) / General / en 1942 un avion de la RAF est abattu au-dessus de Paris. Les trois pilotes sautent en parachute … apparently one of the most popular French films
Film: La Grande Illusion (Renoir) / Background / WW1 classic
Film: Les uns et les autres (Claude Lelouch) / background / Une grande fresque de 1936 à nos jours …
Film: Monsieur Batignole (Gérard Jugnot) / all / good story – excellent accompanying CDROM with background info on daily life
Teaching materials designed for the topic
Resource / Syllabus links / Activities / Notestranscript of the video made by Yves Milhavy (Wolverhampton Poly) on the resistance
L’occupation de la France en film – pack / All / Go through and cross reference suitable activities to appropriate themes.
Chronology especially good
*Au Point old version chapter 12 p148 / Historical Background and general vocab – occupation / Exercises 148-9
p150 – 151 / 1 b 6 -personalities / Exercises
p 152-3 / 1a / Exercises
p 154-5 / Background
- the liberation / Exercises
Jannetta, Joe Exam Revision Notes Philip Allan Updates, 2001
ISBN 0-86003-428-3
pages 96 / Background / Reference
page 98 / 1b / Reference
section 3Jean Moulin / 1b 6 / Reference
Section 4 p 101 CdG / 1b 6 / Reference
Section 5 p 102 / 1c 10,11,12 / Reference
Section 6 p 102 / 1a 2
Section 7 p 102 / 1b 6 / Reference
Section 8 p103 / 1b 5 / Reference
Oxford Pack – enhanced and adapted by Graham Wells / All / Reading comprehension & writing practice / Excellent resource – helps students to commit content to memory and practise for exam
French history resources
Resource / Syllabus links / Activities / Notes* Defrasne, Jean Histoire de la Collaboration
QSJ? PUF 1989 ISBN 2 13 042713 8 / 1c / Reference / Very detailed – no pictures!
* Amouroux H– La Vie des Français sous l’Occupation (Fayard, 1990) / All / Reference / Very dense– no pictures!
* Ory P– Les Collaborateurs 1940-45 (Coll. Points/Histoire, 1976) / 1c / Reference / Very dense – no pictures
* Muracciole, Jean-François Histoire de la Résistance en France
QSJ? PUF 1993 ISBN 2 13 052185 1 / 1b 5 6 7 8 9 / Reference / Details
* Gallimard Decouvertes– Les Années noires, vivre sous l’Occupation
ISBN 2-07-053217-8
£10.95 / All / Reference / Accessible book – good pictures
Martinez, Gilles & Scotto di Covella, Thierry La France de 1939 à 1945 Seuil, 1997 ISBN 2-02-31 458-4
£4.95 / 4,50€ / All / Reference / Very clear slim summary written by school teachers.
Laborie, Pierre Les Français sous Vichy et l’Occupation Les Essentiels Milan, 2003
ISBN 2-7459-0800-6
4€ / All / Reference / Slim summary + god pictures
CD ROM: 1939 1945 La seconde guerre mondiale
Musée de l’Armée FFL Telimage ()
30€ + / All, but especially 1c / Reference – / especially good for printing off pictures and watching video
1939 1945 La deuxième guerre mondiale Invalides
Musée de l’Armée
Editions Perrin, 2001
ISBN 2-262-01836-7 / All / Pictures of exhibits in the newly refurbished collection in Les invalides
Gaussen, Dominique & Mounier, Alain Jean Moulin et ceux qui ont dit non
Mango jeunesse, 2002
ISBN 2 7404 1420 X
17€ / All (despite title) / Reference / Fantastic images to underpin learning – extremely well written – designed for young people, but compelling reading for all! [writers in advertising]
Vallaud, Pierre Les Français sous l’occupation
Editions Pygmalion, 2002 ISBN 2-85704-754-1
27,90€ / All / Reference / Expensive but good book – pictures in colour – well laid out.
Quellien, Jean The Resistance
Le Mémorial de Caen 2001 ISBN 2-910201-92-9 / 1b / Reference / Excellent short summary in English – colour pictures
Rigoulot, Pierre L’Alsace Lorraine pendant la guerre 1939-1945
QSJ? PUF 1998 ISBN 2 13 048106 / None / Background interest / Background interest only – not essential
Cointet, Michèle et Jean-Paul Dictionnaire historique de la France sous l'Occupation
Publisher: Tallandier
ISBN: 2-235-02234-0 / All / Reference / (Mike Wager a cross between a biographical dictionary and an encyclopaedia. It contains over 500
articles, some short (100 words?) and several quite substantial (3/4 pages).
Photos appear on every fourth page or so. Its language is accessible, but
does tend toward the academic rather than the populist.
It's certainly got a great deal of information - far more than you'd ever need to know as a teacher of the course. Its value is going to lie in the copying of key articles for the students to read - as well as in being a
source they can dip into, should they want to look into an as-yet-unknown reference in a text they are studying.
Chavot, Pierre & Morenne, Jean-Denis
l’ABC claire de la seconde guerre mondiale Flammarion ISBN 2-08-0127160 / All / Reference
Pottier, Marc La seconde guerre mondialeLe Mémorial de Caen ISBN 2-910201-95-3 / All / Reference / Very short summary – colour and pictures
Simmonet, Stéphane L’épopée de la France libre Le Mémorial de Caen ISBN 2-910201-66-X / All / Reference / Very short summary – colour and pictures
CD ROM: L’histoire de la France – Encyclopoedia universalis (Montparnasse multimedia / Excellent CD RMOM for all history – including this period.
English history resources
Resource / Syllabus links / Activities / NotesQuellien, jean
French literature
Resource / Syllabus links / Activities / NotesAubrac, Lucie La Résistance expliquée à mes petits-enfants
Editions du Seuil, 2000
ISBN 2-02-036571-5
£5.75 / 1b / Read for overview / Interesting read – simple language – conversational style.
Vercors Le silence de la mer Livre de Poche
ISBN ???
£3.40 / 3,50€ / Background interest – book written in 1942 by a Resistance writer
Hassan, Yael & Hoffmann, Ginette A Paris sous l’Occupation Casterman 2000
ISBN 2-203-13748-7
8€ / 1c / Targeted for the ‘jeune lecteur’ – interest –Jewish children
Guéna, Jean-Pierre Les enfants du silence
Radio France / Editions Milan, 2003 ISBN 2-7459-1011-6
5€ / 1c 12 (tentative) / Optional interest – read / Stories of Jewish children hidden. General interest – easy style reading.
Asociated site:
Quint, Michel Effroyables Jardins
Pocket Jeunesse, 2000 ISBN 2-266-13185-0
+ film
5€ / Fiction, but interesting! V good notes section at back.
Le temps des innocents / 1a 1,2,3,4 / Select texts - to give a 'flavour'
Not yet purchased recommende dby Mike Wager:
Books:
"L'Evolution du régime de Vichy", chapter IV of Henri Michel's "Pétain et le régime de Vichy" (QSJ? again).
Burrin's "La France à l'heure allemande"
Recommended by Graham Wells Books (not yet purchased by us)
A good book in English which I found excellent is called 'Occupied France- Collaboration and Resistance 1940-1944' by H R Kedward - published by the Historical Association through Basil Blackwell - ISBN 0 631 13927 3
French schoolbooks
Oxford pack
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