CYPRIOT STORY ACTIVITIES

The Cypriot folk tale “The prince of Venice” was introduced to the students of the 3rd

Grade (Class 1, 2, 3) during the Language lesson, in a unit about traditional tales and

fairytales.

The images of the tale, made by the Cypriot engraver Hambis Tsangaris, were given to

the students and they were asked to imagine and make up a story for them.

Then, the tale was narrated to the students and they drew the scene they liked the

most.

The students of Grade 3 (Class 1) created the comics of the story and also a 3D scenery

of the story.

The students of Grade 3 (Class 2) worked

in groups to write and perform the scenes

of the tale. They used some circles to

choose the scenes and the characters they

were going to work on. They wrote the

dialogues and then they dramatized their

scenes.

The students of Grade 3 (Class 3) also worked in small groups to dramatize the story

they have read. They chose their roles, their costumes and after a few rehearsals they

presented their version of the tale to the rest of the class.

During the Visual Arts lesson they studied the work of

the Cypriot engraver Hambis Tsangaris and the folk

tales he collected and illustrated using the engraving

technique.

The students of the 6th Grade (Class 2) studied the story “The Prince of Venice” in

comparison with the five other stories sent by our partner schools, during the Greek

Language lesson and a unit relevant to the types of narrative stories. They contacted a

survey on the Internet and they made presentations about the characteristics of folk

tales, fables, legends, traditional songs and real stories.

They have also studied the tale in the Cypriot dialect, as it was written in the book

Illustrated and published by Hambis Tsangaris, and they organized a script for the

theatrical performance of the story.

During the Visual Arts lesson they visited the Engraving Museum of Hambis Tsangaris at

Platanisteia village, where they had the chance to see the Museum and the work of

many famous engravers not only from Cyprus but all over the world. They also had the

opportunity to see the different kinds of engraving technics and their tools. Afterwards,

students attended a workshop at Hambis Engraving School, where they had the

opportunity, with the guidance and the advices of the artist, to finish their engravings,

that they had already prepared during the lesson of Arts at school, and using the

professional press to print them.

Finally, in the lesson of Health Studies students of the 5th and 6th Grade used textiles to

design and create the dresses of the three princesses of the story.