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Scarabeus 2008 http://www.scarabeus.it Reading Club

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Report about the activitiescarried out by

Scarabeus

Reading Club

Livorno, 2008


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Our reading club was formed by 15-16 people of different sex, age and nationality. Some members were retired people some others were still at work and one went toschool. The nationalities represented in the group were:Persian, Russian, Ethiopian and of course Italian.The women were many more than men but neverthelessthey were about six. (It is a good number considering that most of the groups are always attended by women).

The reading sessions started in December and they

finished in the second part of May for a total number of 13meetings. We met every fortnight. Each session startedafter dinner around nine o clock and ended around11,30. All the sessions have taken place in a house andthis has created a more relaxed and friendly atmosphere.The facilitator and the mentor were elected in the first

meeting: It was also elected a person who was in charge torecord videos for each session.

At the end of each session the members were given the poems or the book to be read for the following meeting.


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They had at least two weeks time to read and comment each work. When we gathered together the mentor started reading the passage or the poem which, from his point of you, wasmost meaningful. The facilitator had the charge toencourage the discussion. The meetings have been pleasant and relaxed and people have communicated in a very friendly atmosphere. All the members had the opportunity to say something alsoencouraged by the other mentor who coordinated the works. Our group was very heterogeneous but we havealways believed that the diversity existing in our club was a value. In fact the opinions could be very different but always respectful of the others point of view. We have always had a good attendance of the meetingseven if some people for work reasons had to leave the group but fortunately there were other people ready toreplace the people who had to go away so we always had14-15 people attending the session.

We started our meetings with the Italian culture becausesome people were not Italian so it was an opportunity forthem to come closer to the culture of the country they wereliving in.


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Then we met the German and the Slovenian culture. Anyway the most participated discussions have been theones on fairy tales because of their psychological meaning. We have used different method in order to improve thecomprehension of literary works such as: guided reading,acting, role play, video, listening music and watching films.

We started our meetings with readings and poems fromItalian Literature because in our group there were some people who were not Italian, so this represented anexcellent chance to make these people come closer to theculture of the country they were living in. In a few words we want to say that first of all our practice of interculturaldialogue and active citizenship started inside our group. We think to have fulfilled the aims of the project and wealso feel that we might have accomplished the aim toshorten the cultural distances with Slovenian andGerman people.


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List of Poems and Booksread in

Scarabeus Reading Club


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Selected poems by G. Caproni: Leave-taking (Escomio) Prayer (Preghiera)

Notice (Disdetta) Because I (Perchio)

From the book The Decameron by G. Boccaccio

A short story Chichibio and the crane


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G. UngarettiThe poem: The Mother (La Madre)

P.P. Pasolini

The poem: The Mother /La Madre)


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L. Pirandello From the book Readings for a year (Novelle per unanno)The short story : The encounter with the mother (Lincontro con la madre)

G. GrassThe book Peeling the onion (Sbucciando la cipolla)


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B. Brecht Selected pages fromDreigroschenoper ( An opera for three coins) Opera da tre soldi Selected pages from Galileo Selected poems: To people who will come afterwards (Acoloro che verranno)Praise to the Oblivion (Lode alla dimenticanza)

Grimm Brothers Selected fairy tales:Cat and mouse in society TremotinoThe four musicians of Brema

Lady Fox


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Virgin Marys flower

F. Preseren Selected poems A Toast (Brindisi)If at last the seed buds (Se alla fine il seme gemmer)Who reads my poems. (Chi legge i miei versi)Where (Dove)The fisherman (Il pescatore)

D. Jancar An essay: The readersrevolt(La ribellione dei lettori)


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One of the member of the reading club has created two

videos in order to show how the Italian see Germany andSlovenia from their point of view.


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We have also listened music from Bach, Beethoven, Kurt Weil.

Some participants have watched the German film D a s Leben de r Anderen (Le vite degli altri)

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