Rosa Parks told the students in English

High school students participated in English classes at the Chaumontaise Oudinot Institution, and this Thursday, January 18, a play was held in English called “The Rosa Parks story – tired of giving in”.

Every year, English class students have the opportunity to fully immerse themselves in the English language by attending a play performed in Shakespeare's language. Stéphanie Clausier, a teacher at Oudinot, organizes these school trips for her final-year, first-year and second-year students with a European preference; According to him, it is part of “bringing English to life”. “Students need instant understanding. This theater makes sense for what they learn in class. »

This Thursday, January 18, 83 students went to the Langres Municipal Theater to discover the play The Rosa Parks Story – Tired of Giving by the company “Théâtre en Anglais”. Beyond purely linguistic intent, a further cultural aspect is conveyed. Through the story of Rosa Parks, a black woman who refuses to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger, the goal is to discover a side of America's history that students may not always know about.

“Students know about the Black Lives Matter movement, but don't really know what it's about,” explains the English teacher. “They were able to understand the cultural context of segregationist America in the 1950s, the struggle for civil rights and the role of the woman nicknamed the mother of the civil rights movement in America and the role of Martin Luther King. This part of history is in the curriculum. »

J.T.