I've decided to store all those activities in English I've enjoyed doing with my students and I remember this one specially.
4S3 students took part in a project together with some students from IES Montsacopa in the same city of OLOT.
During the whole term the students exchanged some of their productions in English such as Identity cards, postcards, family trees, letters, posters ..etc. with some studnents from another High school from Olot. Everything was written in English using a NICKNAME. Nobody knew who they were writting to. In our class we had: Cristina Aguilera, Paulina Rubio ,Ronaldihno, Brad Pitt, Hilary Duff among others.
At the end of the term both High schools made a meeting in the countryside near home where the students were suposed to find out their pen pals. Here you can look at the pictures we took during their interviews.
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The Murals were exhibited at PTPI's annual global youth forum and other locations.
We won an honorific price and our poster was not only exhibited with the others but also published in their magazine.
Here you've got a picture album of the whole process as well as its content.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY FORM
CLASSROOM GRADE LEVEL | 4TH ESO STUDENTS |
| STUDENTS AGE: | 14-16 YEARS OLD |
| TEACHERS NAMES: | DANA CARRILLO (ARTS) CARMINA MARTÍ (LANGUAGE) |
| SCHOOL NAME | IES BOSC DE LA COMA |
| SCHOOL MAILING ADDRESS | IES BOSC DE LA COMA C/ TOLEDO S/N 17800 OLOT CATALONIA (Spain) |
| EMAIL ADDRESS | iesbosccoma@xtec.cat (SCHOOOL E-MAIL) cmarti16@xtec.cat (TEACHER’S E MAIL) |
THE SYMBOLISM OF OUR MURAL
This poster symbolizes the joining, the joining of the differences, the joining we need to work for a common aim : The PEACE AND RESPECT among villages, among people, in fact among cultures.
We’ve used a universal symbol like the dove holding an olive branch in its beak. This image figures the storm is over and the earth is again in calm.
Each student has worked on its own dove individually, then we’ve fit them in the mural so as to gather them all regardless of their size, their colour, their activity or their origin. Each dove longs for a peaceful world where everybody has the same rights.
The doves have been carved using the linoleum technique. Once they’ve already been printed, the students have stuck the letters in collage and finally the have splashed the background and the leaves using Chinese ink.
Their photographer sent images of the Global Youth Murals exhibit from November-December. A few are attached for our students to enjoy.
We did have a great time while we learnt English using a different methodology. It's a pity I can't up load their comments because they were all written down in ink.
