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The main focus of the project will be enhancing language usage through the specific
elaboration of materials to celebrate BOOK DAY:
- To engage students in language and content learning.
- To use digital resources to produce materials to work with in lessons.
- To make them aware of the importance of knowing about world literature
- To learn new ways of reading a text from different perspectives.
Language objectives:
- Practice different verbal tenses
- Time connectors in a sequence of events.
- Vocabulary of narrative and descriptive language
EDMODO https://www.edmodo.com will be used as the platform for keeping students
in contact and sharing instructions, links, documents and activities, such as quizzes.
The rationale behind this lesson is enhancing CLIL by elaborating an integrated lesson
in collaboration with the L1 and L3 teachers. On the other hand, Flipped Classroom
ideas are also apparent, in the form of getting to use new digital tools on their own, at
home, by using tutorials and hands-on tasks. In theta way, time is saved and lesson
minutes are devoted to collaboration in group work.
The process will unfold as follows:
Step 1 Shakespeare
http://io9.com/all-of-shakespeares-plays-converted-to-3-panel-webcom-1559458973
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Create your own panel by using http://www.storyboardthat.com/
After creating their panel they share the link with the classmates on the blog post
www.iessantarosadelima.blogspot.com
Comments are always answered by the teachers, so that they might have a motivating
and timely feedback.
Step 2
Ask students: How do you chose a book to read?
Here are some suggestions:
Friend's recommendation
Have read other books by the same author
Like the jacket design
Like the sound of the book based on the blurb on the back
Contributing to a Twitter account in order to share book tittles that students have read as
entries to the hashtag #bookday2014
Nouns, adjectives and verbs are advised in an anticipation of language chunks and
grammar that is essential in bilingual groups.
This Twitter account intends to be the first contact or approach of some of the students
to this useful web tool. Therefore, the teacher will enrich the dynamic exchange of
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messages via Twitter by sharing links in the form of tutorials or brief guides on how to
use it.
Step 3
Gabriel Garcia Marquez´s bio at the Nobel Prize oficial web
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1982/marquez-bio.html
Google form or quiz at Edmodo.
Comprehension is further exploited by selecting relevant pieces of vocabulary that are
turned into a QUIZLET list.
Creating a set of words in Quizlet also includes revision activities of the type:
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Step 4
After working on the vocabulary they choose one of his works and create a BLURB for
the book:
What is a blurb?
On back covers of books there is usually a summary which attempts to get the reader
interested.
Ask the class if they know why blurbs are written for book covers.
What makes a good blurb?
They are short in length.
They use attention-grabbing words and phrases.
They tend to use question and exclamation marks.
They often use three full stops at their ends (an ellipsis) to leave the reader asking
questions...
Create an acrostic blurb:
L - Long journey to destroy the ring.
O - Overpowering magical forces.
R - Riding over dangerous ground.
D - Dark and emotional tale.
O - Only one hobbit, Frodo, given the ring.
F - Friends help him as 'The Fellowship'.
T - Timeless fantasy world.
H - Help comes from unexpected places.
E - Evil battles good along the way.
R - Risking their lives, the hobbits start their quest.
I - Isengard is the home of Saruman the wizard.
N - Nearly a thousand pages long.
G - Gandalf the Grey helps Frodo decide what to do.
S - Sauron is the evil one who made the ring and wants it back.
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Step 5
Students have a look at Gabo´s Twitter and report some of the tweets by using reported
speech:
https://twitter.com/ElGabo
Step 5 Creating a Prezi presentation www.prezi.com or a Glogster www.glogster.com
about BOOK DAY , including pictures of the cardboard posters made in the classroom.
They can use these sites as a resource bank and get some ideas as to what to include
related to:
http://www.worldbookday.com/
http://www.un.org/en/events/bookday/
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These will be the final tasks in this Collaborative Project that students will be able to
present orally in front of their classmates. A googledocs document will b produce with
the notes taken by students listening to the presentations. The teacher will register
presentations in her/his Ipad EVERNOTE https://evernote.com/intl/es application.
Pictures will be taken in order to give a proper feedback to students. Oral presentatiosn
pose a great challenge for them specially at these early stages.
Step 6
Finally, create an account in the social network Google+. Then ask for membership into
the group created by the teacher BOOK DAY 2014 and share an interesting link about
the topic.
https://plus.google.com/115059494699070605997/posts/6tYD5difFa3
Read the poem and make sure you understand it.
Seven Ages of Men
All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
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His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms.
Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school.
mewl – cry weakly
puke – vomit
satchel – a small bag used for carrying books or clothing
whine – complain or protest in a childish fashion
And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress’ eyebrow.
furnace – a large enclosed container in which you burn fuel, used for heating a building
woeful - sad
Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon‘s mouth.
oath – a solemn, formal declaration or promise to fulfill a pledge, often calling on God,
a god, or a sacred object as witness.
bubble – something insubstantial, groundless, or ephemeral
cannon – a large powerful gun used in the past that shot large solid metal balls
And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
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Full of wise saws and modern instances;
good capon lined = ‘to line’ means to fill something at the edges, and ‘capon’ was
chicken to eat – so the man was fat from eating good chicken
wise saws = wise sayings or phrases (old-fashioned English)
instances = examples
The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slippered pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide.
lean and slipper’d pantaloon = here ‘lean’ means ‘thin’; a slipper is what people wear
indoors; a ‘pantaloon’ meant an old man – so this describes a thin old man who stays
inside
pouch = a small bag for carrying money
hose = tights, thin trousers that men wore in Shakespeare’s time
well sav’d = kept carefully
Note: It’s a short version of the poem where there are only 6 stages mentioned.
How is Shakespeare’s vision of stages of life different from yours?
How far do you agree with his view?
Evaluation
A rubric will be created by the teacher in order to assess students´ performance at every
task.
Students will be expected to achieve the upcoming results:
- To become aware of the essential aspects of literary works by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
- To engage in history research by using the digital tools available
-To produce materials that can be helpful in other subjects or school levels.