Séquence 5 · Voices that persuade · Citoyenneté et mondes virtuels

Document 1 · A speech to the school council

Discours construit par le professeur sur le modèle des situations du programme.

Friends, I am not here as a council member. I am here as a student who was once laughed at online. Have you ever woken up to a hundred messages mocking you? It hurts. It isolates. It stays. In our school survey, three students out of four said they had seen hurtful posts about a classmate. We can change this. We can report, we can support, we can refuse to share. Let's make our school a place where every screen is a safe space.

Source : synthèse du professeur (discours construit pour la séance ; sondage fictif).

Document 1 · Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address

Discours, 19 novembre 1863, copie Bliss (domaine public).

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Source : Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, copie Bliss (texte sur Wikisource).

Document 1 · Extrait lié : Black Mirror, saison 3, épisode 1 « Nosedive »

Série britannique, épisode de 2016.

Dans une société pastel où chacun note toutes ses interactions de une à cinq étoiles sur son téléphone, Lacie, notée 4,2, a besoin de 4,5 pour obtenir une réduction sur un appartement de luxe. Invitée à être demoiselle d'honneur au mariage d'une amie d'enfance très bien notée, elle enchaîne les incidents ; chaque mauvaise note en entraîne d'autres et sa note s'effondre, ce qui lui ferme l'accès aux transports et aux services. L'épisode se termine en prison, où, libérée de la note, elle échange enfin des paroles sincères, même agressives, avec un autre détenu. Visionnage sur une plateforme autorisée ; la page fleex donne le vocabulaire et les sous-titres de l'œuvre.

Source : synthèse du professeur ; lien vers la page de l'œuvre sur fleex.tv (extrait non reproduit) : Black Mirror, saison 3, épisode 1 « Nosedive ».