STEP BY STEP: didactic strategies applied on Rewriting Legends Stefania Nanni - Liceo Artistico “Misticoni - Bellisario” - Pescara, Italy

STEP BY STEP: didactic strategies applied on Rewriting

Legends

Stefania Nanni - Liceo Artistico “Misticoni - Bellisario” - Pescara, Italy

Rewriting legends

a journey back to our origins

FINLAND Hyvinkaa

3 - 8 march 2014


step 1 nov 2013 - jan 2014: start up

1.creating groups: roles, tasks, work procedures

1.meeting the local institutions: - Agency for the Cultural Promotion of Abruzzo - Pescara - Public Library “Di Giampaolo” - Pescara - - Government department responsible for book assets and libraries of Abruzzo


step 2 jan - feb 2014: training1.

antropologists, librarians, superintendents.

1. Workshops and seminars: getting to know our : folklore, history, geography, science-biology, language, religion.

- Workshop: at Bellisario home room: “Landscape, art and traditions from the Adriatic to the Appenines” about the most popular legends of our territory, held by the antropologist Ms. Adriana Gandolfi

- Seminar: at Misticoni 2 meetings, 4hrs each

Stefania Nanni - Liceo Artistico “Misticoni - Bellisario” - Pescara, ItalyCo-operation with local experts:

step 3 feb 2014: discovering

1. SEARCHING: Public Library “Di Giampaolo”, Pescara:: ancient, rare manuscripts + new books and documents- Membership campaign - searching, selecting, collecting documents and pictures

1. ORGANIZING: school - classwork - classifying materials into the five given fields: history, geography, religion, science and folklore- getting to know: places, people and circumstances of the legends- sharing the documents with other classes

1. SELECTING: matching legends and fields - teachers of Italian HISTORY: Ms. D’Andrea “The Banderesi” parade: history and legendGEOGRAPHY Ms. D’Andrea GreenAbruzzo from myth to the modern system of national parksSCIENCE: Ms. Napolitano The miracle of the wolf at PretoroRELIGION Ms. Amoroso Saint Martin in Abruzzo: an unconventional saintFOLKLORE Ms. Amoroso “The Farchie”:huge bonfires of Abruzzo


step 4 feb-march 2014 rewriting1. Rewriting of the legends into Italian - teachers of Italian (Mrs. Amoroso, Mrs. D’andrea, Mrs. Napolitano) + studentsstudying the structure of narrative and expository texts and esposition; collection and selection of family and notorial documents; interviews to local population,

working in groups on legends, history, folklore, rituals; reading, underlining, choosing titles; debating, summarizing, reviewing; writing and editing

1. Transalation/rewriting into English - teachers of English (Mrs. Ciavattella, Mrs. D’amore, Mrs. Di Mascio, Mrs. Nanni, Mrs Sabatini) + students: comparing the different language structures; group works

1. Illustration - teachers of Fine Arts (Mrs. Di Sebastiano, others) + students (also w/special needs) - multidisciplinary approach, translating

words/images, description/ interpretation, screenplay, storyboard, framing,


step 4 march 2014, Finland presenting may 2015, Italy

1.Presentation of the legends (English version) in Finland

1.Presentation of the final outcome in both languages (Italian and English),


step 7 april 2014 celebrating

Seminars and lectures 1. The ancient manuscript and the origin of books” held by the Government department responsible for book assets and libraries of Abruzzo, Mr. Francesco

Tentarelli2.“ A praise to curiosity: how the idea of writing a book is conceiveda meeting with Fausto Roncone (teacher of Mathematics) and other authors1.“E-books and the new technologies”

Ballet showThe “legend of Mazzemarille” performed by class 2B-ballet


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STEP BY STEP: didactic strategies applied on Rewriting Legends Stefania Nanni - Liceo Artistico “Misticoni - Bellisario” - Pescara, Italy