The document summarizes an OIB Language and Literature curriculum that combines traditional literary study with modern technologies and collaborative projects. It includes 6.5 hours per week studying 13 works, close reading, essay writing, debates, and guest speakers. Students use flipped learning, IT-enhanced classes, and collaboration technologies. Projects involve creative writing competitions, analyzing an environmental novel in groups, and an eTwinning project connecting four international schools to discuss transitions between sections. The curriculum also includes Skype interviews with authors and analysis of contemporary literature.

1. OIB Language and Literature
 International option
 L/L syllabus:13 works
 6 hours and a half per week
 Includes:
◦ Traditional study of literature (close reading, essay
writing, commentary practice, debates, discussions,
group/pair work, project-based pedagogy, oral practice,
presentations,…)
◦ Guest speakers, webinars, online creative
competitions, projects involving American and French-
speaking authors,…)
◦ But also flipped learning (when most appropriate),
◦ And IT-enhanced classes. 1

2. Combining ambitious lessons with 4
essential motivation factors
 ICT:
 collaboration,
 content creation,
 online publishing,
 Engaging activities,
 Authentic communication,
 Learning with one’s peers AND experts.
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Objective:

3. Creative writing competition
 Paper Planes Creative Writing Competition
(Animal Circus by Alix et Mathieu (3rd 2015
Prize) and
 Devour the pages by Charlotte (2nd 2016 Prize).
Projects

4. ◦ Reading Cyane’s novel,
Les Enfants de Calliope,
about the environment,
◦ Writing a summary of
one chapter (group
work),
◦ Sharing it with a
researcher, James
McKay, University of
Leeds, in order to help
him work with Cyane
(English version).
Excerpts.
Cyane

5. eTwinning project
 eTwinning project involving 4 schools (British and
American International Sections) with Chris Segond,
Debra and Heather Bainbridge.
 Building Bridges: From 3e Inter to 2nde OIB
 In this project, four international sections will come
together to build links. This project focuses on the
difficult steps of transitioning from a 3e
International Section (British, in our case) to a
2nde OIB section (one American, one British in this
project). We will ask our students to talk about their
fears and expectations, to give each other good
advice for preparing for the 'next step', and
discussing reading and the reading process, an
essential part of the work we do in the section. 5

6. Literature in the making
 Author partnership (8 so far)
 Skype interviews and analysis of today’s
literature!
 All the links and slides 
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