Sujet LLCER — Terminale — Nouvelle-Calédonie — Bac 2023

SUJET 1 Le sujet porte sur la thématique « Faire société » Partie 1 – synthèse en anglais (16 pts) Prenez connaissance du dossier proposé, composé des documents A, B, C et D non hiérarchisés, et traitez en anglais le sujet suivant (500 mots environ) : Taking into account their specificities, say what the documents reveal about the different representations of Thanksgiving and how they illustrate conflicting perceptions of the concepts of memory and national history. Partie 2 – transposition en français (4 pts) Rendez compte en français des idées principales du document B (80-100 mots). 23-LLCERANMCNC1 Page 2/9 Document A Norman ROCKWELL, Freedom from Want, oil on canvas, 116.2 cm × 90 cm, 1943, Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. 23-LLCERANMCNC1 Page 3/9 Document B In these days of anxiety and alienation, Thanksgiving offers the warm embrace of inclusiveness. Particularly for many people with families and faiths rooted in other lands, no other holiday, not even the Fourth of July, has so great a capacity to make them feel American. 5 A child of Orthodox Jewish immigrants could feel his apartness on other festivals celebrated by the larger society. Christmas, Easter, Halloween — all are distinctly Christian observances, no matter how temporal and commercialized they have become. They are inevitable reminders for some Americans that they are different [...]. Lincoln may well have anticipated all those convictions — Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim, 10 Jewish and Christian — when in 1863 he proclaimed the last Thursday in November to be “a day of Thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.” It was formally changed in 1941 to the fourth Thursday in November. Lincoln knew his Bible, and was surely familiar with a passage from Exodus all too often ignored in our present era of hard feelings: “Do not mistreat or oppress a foreigner, 15 for you were foreigners in Egypt.” Lincoln mentioned God but no particular faith in his proclamation. We may presume that all were thus declared welcome to sit at the American table. The Editorial Board, The New York Times, November 22, 2017 Document C Jean Leon Gerome FERRIS, The First Thanksgiving [1621], oil on canvas, 3 m x 1,9 m, 1912-1915, Pilgrim Hall Museum, Plymouth. 23-LLCERANMCNC1 Page 4/9 Document D PLYMOUTH, Mass. — Overlooking the chilly waters of Plymouth Bay, about three dozen tourists swarmed a park ranger as he recounted the history of