Showing posts with label peace project. Show all posts
Showing posts with label peace project. Show all posts
Mar 11, 2013
What a Wonderful World (2)
Feb 12, 2013
I PAINTED PEACE (2)
Video created by Michele Cillo and Alessandro Balestra from class 1 E.
The poem "I Painted Peace" is declaimed by Michela Gallo, Sannak Zineb, Alessandro Balestra, Andrea Genovese, Giusy Girardi, Lucia Evangelista and Benedetta Romeo.
Feb 4, 2012
Peace People
When I was a young girl I often used to hear of the civil and religious uprest in Northern Ireland: the conflict between Catholics and Protestant. We would talk about it at school with our History or Religious Education teacher, reflecting on what life would be like at the time in Northern Ireland, especially for children. It was so unusual for me living peacefully side by side with people of different races and religius creeds in the USA.
As a teacher I have dealt with this topic with my students several times. Once I asked them to imagine being a Catholic or a Protestant child in the years of the "Troubles" and meeting an Italian tourist one day in Belfast. Here's what they wrote:
As a teacher I have dealt with this topic with my students several times. Once I asked them to imagine being a Catholic or a Protestant child in the years of the "Troubles" and meeting an Italian tourist one day in Belfast. Here's what they wrote:
Fancesca: Hi! I’m from Italy. My name is Francesca. I’m on here on holiday.
Sean: Hi, Francesca. My name is Sean.
Thomas: Welcome to Belfast, Francesca! I’m Thomas.
Francesca: What’s that over there ?
Sean: That’s a Peace Wall. It separates a Catholic neighborhood from a Protestant one. I’m Protestant and Thomas is Catholic but we like to play together. We’re good friends.
Thomas: There are a lot of Peace Walls all over Northern Ireland.
Francesca: Why do people write on them?
Sean: Because they want to express their thoughts and feelings about war and peace in Northern Ireland.
Thomas: Tourists write on the walls too. Why don’t you write something, Francesca.
Francesca: Oh yes! I‘ll write.....“NO WARS AND NO WALLS. LET’S LIVE TOGETHER TO BUILD A BETTER WORLD. “
In 1976 due Northern Irish citizens, Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan Maguire, both personaly involved in the terrible incidents which were happening in their country at the time, founded a peace movement, Peace People. This peace organization won the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize. Enjoy this excerpt from their First Declaration: http://youtu.be/j2OdG7k659I
The song you hear in the background is "There were roses" by the Northern Irish folk singer Bobby Sands.
Sean: Hi, Francesca. My name is Sean.
Thomas: Welcome to Belfast, Francesca! I’m Thomas.
Francesca: What’s that over there ?
Sean: That’s a Peace Wall. It separates a Catholic neighborhood from a Protestant one. I’m Protestant and Thomas is Catholic but we like to play together. We’re good friends.
Thomas: There are a lot of Peace Walls all over Northern Ireland.
Francesca: Why do people write on them?
Sean: Because they want to express their thoughts and feelings about war and peace in Northern Ireland.
Thomas: Tourists write on the walls too. Why don’t you write something, Francesca.
Francesca: Oh yes! I‘ll write.....“NO WARS AND NO WALLS. LET’S LIVE TOGETHER TO BUILD A BETTER WORLD. “
In 1976 due Northern Irish citizens, Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan Maguire, both personaly involved in the terrible incidents which were happening in their country at the time, founded a peace movement, Peace People. This peace organization won the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize. Enjoy this excerpt from their First Declaration: http://youtu.be/j2OdG7k659I
The song you hear in the background is "There were roses" by the Northern Irish folk singer Bobby Sands.
Oct 13, 2011
Imagine
Have a look at this video I made working with a primary school teacher, Carmela di Gaeta, who first introduced me to the use of ICT tools in education in 2007. Our students were from primary and secondary school. They enjoyed and appreciated John Lennon's evergreen "Imagine".
Aug 10, 2011
The Creative Life at Terezin Concentration Camp
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| The Terezin Promise |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24i4ZtnCKA4
Terezin was a town near Prague which was walled and transformed in a concentration camp by the Nazis. Hitler wanted the world to know that it was “a city for the Jews” where Jewish scholars, professionals, artists, musicians and political prisoners from several countries were encouraged to lead a creative life and could be protected from the stresses of the war. The Nazis created this façade in order to deceive the world, especially the International Red Cross, into believing that the Jews were safe here. On the contrary, they were not safe at all. TerezinConcentration Camp was only a way station: inmates were to be sent to die at Auschwitz-Birkenau, if ever they survived.
In this singular ghetto the artists exposed the truth of this horrible place through art, poetry and music. Also children were taught to do so.
One of these artists was Friedl Dicker-Brandeis who secretly taught art to hundreds of children in the camp from 1942 to 1944. She saw drawing as a means for children to understand their emotions. In September 1944 she was sent to Auschwitz where she perished the next year, but before she was taken away she gave two suitcases with 4,500 drawings to one of the chief tutors of the Girls’ Home. After the war, the director of the Girls’ Home brought the suitcases with children's drawings to the Jewish Community in Prague. Today the drawings are in several museums.One of the many poems found in Terezin is “Butterfly” written by the inmate Pavel Friedman at the age of 21. It is included in a collection of works of art and poetry by Jewish children who were prisoners in Terezin Concentration Camp . The poem “Butterfly” inspired the “Butterfly Project” of the Holocaust Museum in Houston. This exhibition features 1.5 million paper butterflies; the number symbolizes the number of children that died in the Holocaust.
Fifteen thousand of the Terezin inmates were children of which 132 have survived.
I was also very impressed by “The Terezin Promise: the promise made by a Jewish girl at Terezin, Raja Englandergova, to her teacher, Irena, not to leave the camp without the poems and drawings of the children of Terezin; the real promise was to live and hope and to NEVER FORGET. Jul 19, 2011
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
I successfully engaged primary school students in a Peace Project on St. Francis's message of love for man and nature. The song in the video is "The song of Saint Francis" by Donavan Leitch in the Franco Zeffirelli film "Brother Sun, Sister Moon".
Watch my students pretending to be "God's creatures":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omO_5wLQXX4
Watch my students pretending to be "God's creatures":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omO_5wLQXX4
Jul 18, 2011
Peace Tags
I find working on songs in the classroom very useful to convey ideas and values as well as a means of improving and enlarging students' vocabulary. The use of ICT tools makes learning easier, more enjoyable and helps fix language. Here are some of the works my students created with power point. The students distinguish ideas with a positive or a negative connotation using words of different colours and sizes. Watch a video containing their works:
Make a better world calendar
Have you ever heard of the " Make a Better World Calendar"? Working on a school peace project I found out that there are many very important days in the year. The most meaningful one is " Make a Difference Day". So, remember, each of us has the power to do good deeds to change things.
Do you know other important days?
Do you know other important days?
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