Health Education Programme Music School of Komotini 2012 - 2013

“Cinema and literaturetalking about

racism and differentiality”

Maria GoubiliArtemis Archontogeorgi

Educational Scenario Data

• School year: 2012 – 2013• Music School of Komotini• Health Education Programme• 1st grade of Junior High School• 13 students• Duration: 5 months (19 weeks) / 2 hours per

week• Subjects involved: Modern Greek Language and

Literature, History, Geography, Music, Art.• Information and Communication Technology

Teaching Goals

• To render students sensitive towards differentiality and to help them comprehend the different forms of racism as well as its causes.

• To help students realize the consequences of having racist ideas and attitudes.

• To lead students to discovering and recommending ways of reacting to different kinds of racist behaviour.

• To help students perceive the benefits of forging multi-cultural relationships.

Teaching Goals

• To build up students’ sense of responsibility and self-respect.

• To guide students through various processes of effective communication, decision-making and conflict resolution.

• To cultivate their good taste, and assist them in developing their creativity and imagination as well as in broadening their horizons.

• To bring students closer to literature and cinema and familiarize them with a critical approach to books and films.

Selection of books in accordance with:

• The students’ age and interests• The exhibition of the various forms of racism (social,

racial, religious), its causes and its consequences • Variation in length• Illustration

Selection of films in accordance with:• Modernity• Quality• International productions starring teenagers• Animation

Books read:• “Navid didn’t come on vacation”, by author Christodoulos

Panos (Kedros)• “The last black cat”, by author Evgenios Trivizas (Ellinika

Grammata)• “Orfeas and the bullies with the yellow bicycles”, by author

Merkourios Avgis (Psychogios) • “Ivan and the Prince”, by author Theodora Loufa – Tzoannou

(Agkyra)• “From the cherry tree to the internet”, by author Theodora

Georgakoudi (Psychogios)

Films presented:• “War of the buttons”, directed by Yann Samuell• “Happy feet 1”, directed by George Miller• “Billy Elliot”, directed by Stephen Daldry• “Taare Zameen Par”, directed by Aamir Khan

Lesson structure, teaching steps, activities and student assessment

• Based on experiential and inquiring learning• Method: Flexible groupwork• Starting with “getting to know each other” games• Formation of groups• Signing a learning contract• Exploring the basic ideas: Brain – storming

activities, creation of a conceptual map• Videos related to the topic• Research and empathy activities• Relevant questionnaire

Lesson structure, teaching steps, activities and student assessment

• Students read a book or watch a film

• Students work on certain worksheets (13 in total)

• Integration within a set deadline

• Presentation of individual projects and conversation

• Keeping diary (likes, dislikes, feelings, comments)

Worksheets’ assessments based on:• Students’ interests, readiness, knowledge and

abilities• Game-like activities• Group or individual activities• Research papers • Creative writing activities• Connecting the narration to other arts

(painting, music)• Role-playing activities• Memory activities

Worksheet on the movie “War of the buttons”(excerpt)

1. What features of real war we can identify in the movie?

2. What people do you notice that are not easily accepted in the Group and why?

3. Which one of the heroes of the film would you like to be and why?

4. Let's give our own title and end to the film.

Worksheet on the book “Navid didn’t come on vacation” (excerpt)

• Let's do a little research! Using the dictionary let us find the meaning of words. We can also use electronic dictionary:refugee, immigrant, asylum, passport, dictatorship, underground, democracy, freedom, human rights, racism, tortures, xenophobia.

• Let's make a poster on the occasion of the book.• My team will find photographs and articles from

newspapers, relevant to the topic of the book, will catch it on cardboard and write captions using words from the book.

Worksheet on the book “The last black cat”(excerpt)

1. How are the black cats slandered? 2. How does the world react? How do the black

cats react to their persecution? How do the other cats react when the black ones seek for their help?

3. Let's find in the text the derivative compounds with the word “cat”.

4. Let's try to create slogans in favor of black cats that respond to slogans against them.

Worksheet on the book “Orfeas and the bullies with the yellow bicycles” and “Ivan and the Prince”(excerpt)

1. Let’s talk about the book’s cover. What is the relationship between the image, the title and the content of the story?

2. How Orpheus faces his problem? How else do you think he could solve them?

3. Let's get in the other's position. Let's briefly tell Orpheus’ story from the perspective of one of the bullies.

4. Let’s write a page from Ivan’s diary about a) the day he left his country b) the day his dog, the Prince, was badly injured.

Worksheet on the movie “Taare Zameen Par” (excerpt)

• Working with your group try to find similarities and differences between the life of students in India and in Greece.

• Working with your team gather the information that the film gives about dyslexia.

• Working with your team choose a color and write a poem that expresses the content of the movie.

• Working with your team find or create a new theme for the movie.

Worksheet on the book ““From the cherry tree to the internet” (excerpt)

• Working with your team gather the characterizations that the locals (Greeks) give to children and their families who came from Russia. Which ones have positive and which ones negative connotations?

• With your team become reporters and write down or record stories like the hero’s grandfather for your school newspaper.

• Let’s create a bookmark which expresses the content of the book.

• Using an image from the book let's try either to enrich it with our own illustrations or to complement the dialogue balloons for the persons depicted therein.

During the last month: Final project from each group:“Daisies and the Tulip”

During the last month: Final project from each group:“Draculitsa and the fear of the spatial”

During the last month: Final project from each group:“Racism”

ΡατσισμόςΗ διαφορετικότητα και ο ρατσισμός

δεν είναι στην καρδιά κανενός.Δεν έχει σημασία η πατρίδα

γιατί έχουμε ανάγκη μια ελπίδα για το αύριο.

Η βία φέρνει μόνο την κακία,όχι αγάπη και παντοτινή φιλία

στο λέω, σκέψου το λίγο.Δυνατός δεν είναι αυτός που χτυπάει,

μ’ αυτός που ‘χει το θάρρος να ζητάει συγγνώμη .Κι αν όλα αυτά γίνουν αλήθεια

δε θα φωνάζουν πια οι άνθρωποι βοήθεια στο λέω είναι απλό.

Στίχοι: Κωνσταντίνα Μαντζικίδου και Νίκος ΑντωνακάκηςΜουσική: Νίκος Αντωνακάκης

Commemorative diploma

Music School of KomotiniKomotini, 15/5/2013

Commemorative diploma

_______________________________________________student in

the 1st Grade actively participated with interest in the

workshops of the programme «Cinema and literature

talking about racism and differentiality ", held during

the school year 2012 – 2013.

. The principle Supervisors

Maria GoubiliGougoulaki Rodopi Artemis Archontogeorgi

Students’ thoughts about the program:

I had a wonderful time cause we ‘ve worked as a group and we’ ve finished our project

We did things that I liked very much, such

as painting, solving crosswords and

ciphers

Today I had a wonderful time because I didn’t

have too much to write!!

I changed my mind on some guys and

on teamwork

Now that the program is over I will be bored on

Fridays!!I am happy because I feel more sensitive

about racism

Health Education Programme Music School of Komotini 2012 - 2013

“Cinema and literaturetalking about

racism and differentiality”

Maria GoubiliArtemis Archontogeorgi