Cultural text Dream of Living [Όνειρο ζωής] (2011) Text creator Alkisti Kokorikou & Pinelopi Kokkali Theme Living together
Sub-theme Human rights Cultural
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In-lesson:
Ask students in their groups to design crosswords or puzzles with words that are key to the discussion that took place during the lesson. If there is time, ask students to present their crosswords to the class. An example from a puzzle is presented below.
Session 2 Age group Years 14/15
Cultural text Capital (2014) Text creator Afonso Cruz Theme Living together Sub-theme Globalization
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In-lesson:
Each group decides on one phrase which best represents their answer to the main Talking Point: “Money is unevenly distributed, for there are people or nations that have a lot of it, or that have nothing”. They receive a piece of paper representing a Euro banknote, on which they write their phrase. All banknotes are then stuck together on an A3 paper with the main Talking Point written in the middle.
Session 3 Age group Years 14/15
Cultural text Excentric City (2014) Text creator Béatrice Coron Theme Living together
Sub-theme Celebration of diversity Cultural
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In-lesson:
Ask each group to be inspired by the book and create a leporello with a sequence of sketches representing their own everyday-life culture.
Session 4 Age group Years 14/15
Cultural text Let’s change! [Changeons!] (2017) Text creator Francesco Guistozzi
Theme Social resbonsibility Sub-theme Sustainable development Cultural
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In-lesson:
Ask students in their groups to select one problem and draw a proposed solution to highlight how the sustainability of planet earth is everyone’s responsibility.
Session 5 Age group Years 14/15
Cultural text Going fishing (2018) Text creator Guldies
Theme Social responsibility
109 Sub-theme Sustainable development Cultural
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In-lesson:
Ask each group of students to draw a diagram showing the journey of a plastic bottle and solution to the non-sustainability of this issue.
Beyond-lesson:
Ask student groups to prepare a poster with measures to be taken at school to become more sustainable, in order to reflect their opinions in relation to the discussion question “What actions could be undertaken in school and at home to live more sustainably?” that was discussed at the beginning of the lesson.
Session 6 Age group Years 14/15
Cultural text Free the Lines (2016) Text creator Clayton Junior
Theme Social responsibility Sub-theme Sustainable development Cultural
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In-lesson:
Ask your students to improve their diagrams, use colours to show the connections, draw relevant images in each circle to reflect the title the wrote in each. Take photos of the groups diagrams (which may be visualised) and upload them on the platform. Once you received the diagrams from the other class, ask your students to comment on them, notice any similarities or differences and explain if they would change something in their diagrams now that they have seen the outcome the received from the students of the other class.
Session 7 Age group Years 14/15
Cultural text Super Big [Super Grand]
Text creator Marjolaine Perreten Theme Dispositions
Sub-theme Tolerance Cultural
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In-lesson:
Ask students to draw a continuation of the story in groups or pairs. Take a picture of their artefacts.
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Cultural text Baboon on the moon Text creator Christopher Duriez Theme Dispositions
Being European Sub-theme Empathy
Belonging Cultural
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In-lesson:
Create artwork to reflect the key words and phrases that define ‘home’.
Session 9 Age group Years 14/15
Cultural text Emptiness (Vazio) Text creator Catarina Sobral Theme Dispositions Sub-theme Empathy Cultural
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In-lesson:
Ask students to draw “What is emptiness?”. Ask each group to produce a drawing inspired by the questions posed by the other class. Once the artefacts are complete, take a picture of them and send them to the other class. The drawings will then be offered to the other group as a gift that answers their questions (or maybe creates more!).
Session 10 Age group Years 14/15
Cultural text Enough
Text creator Anna Mantzaris Theme Social responsibility Sub-theme Citizenship
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In-lesson:
Ask students in their groups to create a ‘freeze frame’ (freeze frames are still images or silent tableaux) about a moment of lost self-control. Ask
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students to write a short paragraph explaining their choices as a caption for the online gallery. Take pictures of the freeze frames and upload them to the online platform. Once you receive the photos from the other class, ask your students to discuss them considering whether similar situations have happened to them and upload their comments on the platform.
Session 11 Age group Years 14/15
Cultural text Free Art (2015) Text creator Nicolas Bro
Theme Social responsibility Sub-theme Social/civic competence Cultural
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Beyond-lesson:
Ask students to find examples of graffiti in their own neighbourhoods and photograph it to create a collage of graffiti. These could be submitted for upload to the online gallery.
Session 12 Age group Years 14/15
Cultural text Fences [Ploty] (2015) Text creator Natalia Krawczuk Theme Social responsibility Sub-theme Social/civic competences Cultural
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In-lesson:
Ask each group to summarise the consequences of isolation from the community in three keywords and present the three words either in the form of a drawing or emojis.
Session 13 Age group Years 14/15
Cultural text Waterloo & Trafalgar (2012) Text creator Olivier Tallec
Theme To be European
112 Sub-theme European narratives Cultural
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In-lesson:
Ask each group to draw inspiration for the book and consider how the two characters would benefit from each other’s company rather than looking each other with hostility and doubt from a distance. Then, ask them to draw their own alternatives of the story if the two characters engaged together in the same activities benefiting from both their similarities and differences. Encourage them to think which values are represented in their drawings, which will ultimately be uploaded by the groups on the platform to encourage discussion with the students of the other class. At the beginning of the next lesson ask your students to go through the drawings they received from the other class and annotate them with their feedback comments.
Session 14 Age group Years 14/15
Cultural text Bon Voyage (2012) Text creator Fabio Friedli
Theme Being European Sub-theme European narratives Cultural
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In-lesson:
Ask students to create a ‘train’ (which will be posted on a scoreboard) where
all topics discussed in their groups are chained, culminating in their own story of a migrant’s journey.
Session 15 Age group Years 14/15
Cultural text Mediterranean [Mediterraneo] (2017) Text creator Armin Greder
Theme Being European Sub-theme European narratives
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In-lesson:
Ask students to seat in their groups and share the D&A objective/indicator. Ask students to discuss the following questions
● “Why are people forced to migrate?”
● “What do migrants lose? What do they gain? How do they feel?”
Ask students to summarise their responses during a whole-class discussion. Ask students in their groups to discuss the following question. Remind them of the D&A objective/indicator again.
● “How could we, Europeans, help migrants?”
The outcome of their discussion should be in the form of a visual in each group (leporello, poster, drawing) showing their suggestions on how to support migrants.