BOOK DAY: SHAKESPEARE AND GABO

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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.