Anyone in France with a DC doing the new Bac?

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Specifically the LLCE Anglais?

I am trying to help the daughters of two friends with this. I assumed they would need a little bit of general support but this new Bac seems to be a huge mess. Has anyone seen this?

eduscol.education.fr/cid141765/sujets-zero-bac-2021.html

If I am not mistaken it’s sample papers just released. The LLCE anglais is insanely difficult! I am a native speaker and have three HE degrees (not in English lit thought) and I would find it a challenge.

Does anyone understand if the students would have a choice between the 4 different themed questions and how many they would need to answer? Does anyone know which books/films/plays this year’s Bac covers specifically?

I found a list that includes
Animal Farm
Of Mice and Men
The Curious Incident...
Two Edgar Allan Poe poems
The Importance of being...
West side Story
And one or two more I forget now.

Is this the right list? Do they have to cover all of these?
What about themes? The ones in the exam are quite specific, could just about anything come up?

Both DCs are working on the Bac in school but what they have been working on doesn’t relate to this sample exam at all.

He can find past papers here

www.sujetdebac.fr/annales/serie-s/philosophie/

The possible subjects are very wide ranging so it’s anyone’s guess, but culture, rights and justice, equality and liberty and happiness all seem to come up regularly, which is a bit surprising for a science Bac. Sometimes there are Phil of science topics and theory of knowledge also pop us. If it’s a really odd year they throw in aesthetics for maximum confusion.

He might find Philosophical Dilemmas by Phil Washburn to be interesting as it covers these topics in a debate format so it shows how the arguments interact. It is in English though.

How is he getting on in class? The devoirs sur table should be an indication of how he is doing. There's a good book for philo my DC uses, passerelles philosophie, the manuel enseignant, it has more useful things in it.

Seeing philo is only coeff 3 in S, even if he gets 14 but does really well in the heavy subjects he should get his mention TB, assuming that is what he is going for.

We just had the report and it's around 11. The teacher thinks he could do better and so do I.
I think he needs to learn how to be less succinct!

He should use the word because everywhere. It will prompt his to justify his claims and flesh out his ideas.

I found a French forum for lycée teachers. According to the posters there the sujet 0 is four different possible exams, which means the final Bac LLCE will have only one question and no choices (getting information out of the posters on this forum was like pulling teeth). Also they think that any book/poem/newspaper article/painting/sculpture could possibly come up in the exam - the 2019 list of seven options is only a recommendation for in year training and has nothing to do with the exam.

Madamfrog have you been given similar advice?

In light of this I think the exam will be incredibly hard. The students will have to analyse an extract from a book they have never read, plus a random article plus a painting/poster that could be about anything. All of this with relation to any one of the concepts in the six themes. It is a crazy amount of work just understanding the themes, from dystopias to the Gothic novel, to different perspectives, to love, etc.

This feels even more desperate than before!