MAJOR ELECTIONS • • METHOD 1

Method - Commenting on 2 documents : faire un brouillon pour l'oral

Le jour de l'oral du bac vous n'aurez que 20 m pour préparer votre analyse de deux documents. Et la lecture des documents va déjà vous prendre un temps précieux. De plus, si les examinateurs vous voient lire votre brouillon, ils vont vous le prendre ou vous pénaliser puisque la lecture ne fait pas partie des compétences à évaluer.
Sur votre brouillon, ne doivent donc figurer que les éléments essentiels et/ou ceux que vous avez peur d'oublier.

docs

Intro

// Topic : -> guideline
  Define notion /
  Context : at the end of George W. Bush's 2 presidential terms
    only 2 terms allowed : re-election impossible
1st doc cartoon published by... on... about...
  2nd doc article by/from... posted on/published in... about...
Plan In a 1st part, I'm going to explain the presidential nomination with doc.1
  In a 2nd part, I will analyze the results of the presidential election using doc.2

Analysis

 DESCRIBE THE DOCS
What I see (=DOCS)
 INTERPRET THE DOCS
What I know (=NOTIONS)
FIRSTLY, Doc.1 mocks THE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION
In the cartoon, we can see :
Scene, background :
describe "live"
Characters : elephants & donkeys.
- appearance : describe "live"
- expression : /
- action : describe "live"

=> Indeed, we know that
Notion 1 : the party nominations.
Define orally "2. US. Holding the election"

SECONDLY, Doc.2 gives the results of THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
In the article, it is said :
P1 (main idea) A historic victory
-Rephrase "live" & describe the photo
=> We can say that...
Notion 2 : the election.
Define orally "2. US. Holding the election"
Notion 3 : the inauguration.
Define orally with "2. US. Winning the election"

+ What you know about the abolition of slavery and/or the civil rights struggle
P2 (main idea) A decisive victory
-Rephrase "live"
Indeed the results show :

give the winner, justify & qualify "live"
=> In fact, it can be explained by ...
Notion 4 : the US indirect election.
Define orally with "3. Winning the election"

En fait votre tableau contient le plan très détaillé de votre analyse. Tout le reste est directement dit à l'oral.

Conclusion

Assess docs To conclude,  
  reliable / unreliable + detailed justification
  biased / unbiased
     
Recap ideas To sum-up, these docs showed...
  Open on something you know well, you want to talk about