Teaching Unit about the English Romantics

This year I am going to work on  Romanticism and  the Victorian  Age mainly.
Starting from January I will work on poetry and the English  Romantic Poets.
My teaching unit is about  Romanticism and I will work on it with my 4th year class students in a Liceo Artistico in Reggio Emilia.
My students do  Art and Art related subjects at school but they are also involved in studying Italian Literature, French Literature, History and Philosopy. I would like them to find  connections with the context of the European Romanticism, starting from the  Pre-romantics and the Sturm und Drang.

I have collected the main  texts and visuals online by using  a  WAKELET which I am going to share with my students.

We are going to use  materials taken from our English Literature  Book but  we will also use free online materials to exploit the world of  Romanticism.
The Learning path starts with the students viewing a film - this is homework  for them- and it is freely accessible from our  RAI portal- Bright Star.
This film is a focussed on the life of a young poet who died  in Italy -  Keats- and belongs to the second generation of the English Romanticism.

The next step will be on learning about new feelings and ideas in the late XVIII century by reading and viewing some videos.
Since Art and the Natural Landscapes are important I would like my students to focus on the works by some painters who are  associated to  Romanticism- this implies that the Teacher of Art will be asked to focus on the themes too.  I do really hope that this will help my learners to understand  the age of feelings and Romanticism.
The focus on the unit is on  poetry and we will deal with  some poets of the first generation of Romanticism and the key words like feelings, Nature, the role of the poet in writing  poems.
The poems will be  Daffodils and   some extracts taken from the  ballad  " The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner".

English poets shared different views about Art and  I would like my students to read and reflect on the poems by Keats " Ode to a Grecian Urn"  and  " Bright Star" .

   
Here is the Wakelet which I am going to share with my learners.






Evaluation and Tasks related to the unit about Romanticism

The activities done in class will be mainly based on a spoken interaction, this implies that  I will check the students' understanding and their  reading competences.

What I would like them to be able to do:
- to find connections with the time in which  the poets lived and find the main key ideas and differences with the past
- to be able to describe a painting and the emotions  we can share while thinking about  the landscape and the main characters in the painting
- to be able to express themselves by replying to  questions in English both in writing and in speaking tasks
- to use the language and the lexis related to literature and art correctly.

Hopes for the Future- education is crucial

We are approaching the end of a year which has seen many changes. I feel that the greatest  and most important change should involve education- we do need to care and provide  education for all the children in the world.

Their voices can help us work on a better world where they can achieve whatever they want to.
Education has been neglected in many regions and areas of this world but it can support  the development of individuals and help countries  grow.

Let's hope that  2020  will bring  new hopes for children!

#ForEveryChild, quality education is a right.

Hear the voices from children all over the world 🌐, on what they like to learn. And why they want to learn. 👇 pic.twitter.com/wDIr0IFM5E

— UNICEF Education (@UNICEFEducation) December 29, 2019

Erasmus+ in Dublin

Last July  I left for  Dublin and spent two weeks in the beautiful capital city of Ireland .

I chose  Alpha College in  Dublin where I had already studied  in 2014 . The course was focussed on the use of technology in education- most of the  apps  were free and  we worked on many  Google apps. The tutors were great and I really appreciated the workshops.  In the afternoons we were free or on some days we were guided to discover some cultural institutions and related to the past history of Ireland.

I must say that I was already familiar with many tools before I did the coursee but  what I wanted to do when I chose the course  was to work in English and to reflect on my teaching  experience.  I worked in a small group and I really liked trying new tools  or rather learn more about them.
We could also reflect on our  school systems and we learnt about other countries  and teaching  experiences. I worked  with educators from Spain and Eastern Europe. Everybody was kind and worked well.
Since I had already worked on European projects I was  ready to continue my  CPD.  I started many  years ago with  Leonardo  projects and then I won a scholarship for Comenius.  I was lucky but  I had also taken advantage  of what  Europe is doing for  education and  students. The money spent on such projects  should have an impact on our  life and also our systems of education.

My school is part of a European  Project - Erasmus + which we won last year and which is going to finish next year, in 2020.  The name of the project for Liceo Chierici is  Reach, which implies that our school wants to improve the   language competences of the educators and to provide new learning environments for our  students. Educators have been involved in attending courses abroad in order to better the language competences and  ICT while others  chose  some job  shadowing  experiences.

We want our  school to have a European vision and to help our learners to get access to new learning scenarios both at school and  abroad. When Reach finishes more educators will have learnt about  Europe and the many  projects  we can work on, but what really matters is that  our  school has a new horizon. Educators will be involved in sharing and maybe cooperating  with other schools.

Learning languages, working and studying abroad are a priority for many schools in Italy now. Educators started travelling  with the first  European projects and  some are still developing. My school is  working now to better what we have been doing  so far.

Some educators went  to Scotland and England, others  chose  Dublin  and Spain- Barcelona.  Some will leave in some months and  will go to Dublin and also to France. We are becoming  an international school thanks to this project.

Here is my reflection in Italian which I have shared with the other educators in my school and which I hope will help other educators to develop new learning  paths.

I cannot but say that Europe is helping me as an educator and that  I will try to  develop new skills  among my students, supporting  their learning experiences.

Europe is also supporting people who are unemployed and financing  many projects that are aimed at promoting   life long learning.

I cannot understand why people are against Europe. Europe needs to improve the life of its citizens and education and work are crucial for today and also for the future. Education and better education are our aim.

Erasmus+ is a great opportunity, we cannot but say  " Thank you   Europe! "   

WWMOOC19 Week 4- Adventure Library Tour

Adventure Library  Tour

The event took place on 25th September and the presenter was   Bethany Winslow who ran a tour starting from the Kitely Welcome Center to the Hypergrid Resource Library on the Cookie II region.

I was not online and watched the recording only this month. I learnded about Hypergrid Library and also the space station where you can jump to other worlds. The focus of the presentation was on crowdsourcing, webpages, people who can learn by doing, the way people can socialize in a community of practice and also digital skills. When I watched the video I realized that this new world offered interesting opportunities for exploring new worlds and that it would support learners working on their own. Since I am not a member of Kitely I will have to learn more about it. For sure there are resources and plenty of learning tools I am not familiar with. The learning process is complex but today we have new planets where learning can happen too. Education is undergoing changes and perhaps also secondary school students should take advantage of these virtual worlds.

VWMOOC19 3DWebWorldz - Virtual World in a Browser makes Teaching Online Easy

The event took place on 20th  September and the speaker was Yvonne DeBandi in real life and whose avatar is EvieMarie3D .

I watched the recording online today as I was not able to attend the event live on SL. However, I wish I could have visited it.

You can see the webinar online by following this link : The webinar online

The presentation was clear and really engaging: 3DWebWorldz approaches online education using all the tools available - virtual spaces not pages, websites, videos and application scripting. No download required, works in your web browser.

The virtual world is online https://3dwebworldz.com/, the speaker  talked about the advantages of creating such learning environments and  classes online.  It is simple to work online as you do not need to have  any special grid, you just work in your browser.


What did I think when I entered the class? Well, it was engaging and  if I could work online in this way I might have more resources for my learners and get them more engaged.

Here is the  link to the classroom which was  presented online  by the presenter

https://myschool3d.com/3dportal/index.php


I think that this could be a simple but really interesting way for  working with my  learners in English and on projects.

What thougths came to my mind when I saw the recording?
Well, first of all  give this  a try!
Secondly don't give up!You must try it! It can enhance your learners' progress in learning!

Once more I must say I am sorry  I was not online!


I tried to enter the world again and here is my short video- I must confess that I do need to learn more about how to move, but hopefully there's good information online!

VWMOOC19 Integrating VR into a 100% Online Education Graduate Program

The Presentation online
Integrating VR into a 100% Online Education Graduate Program

I watched the recording today. The event took place on 12 September and the speaker was Dr. Eileen O'Connor working at the State University of New York - SUNY.

You can get access to the recording online https://youtu.be/nyosxwlgrCU

The speaker presented an online  Education  Graduate Program in  Emerging Technologies.

I had alredy learnt about some  educators experimenting online and I really  appreciated what she described and what  learners had done.

Learners can work in virtual worlds, work together and share  what they have been working on. She talked about  a VR residency and also about students creating their own islands.

The virtual word was in Kitely:  hop://grid.kitely.com:8002/Marian%20Island/126/111/22


When I listened to the presentation I thought that I would really like to work for my CP with other  teachers  and working in a similar virtual world.   However, I do not know if  in Italy we have such educators  experimenting at university.

An interesting  feature could be  also to work with secondary school students and working on projects .

I have already entered  the grid and honestly I can say that it is an interesting  new world for learning.

How did I feel when I saw what's going on in this  program?  I was surprised  and got interested. 

I thought that perhaps we could  try to work in a  learning  environment  which is not the traditional one. 


I do teach in a  secondary school, as a result  I teach younger learners.  Working with university students and older learners  must be less demanding.  

I do hope to learn more about  new learning  environments and  perhaps I  will try to work in some.

Meanwhile I will check  what  Kitely can offer in terms of  learning opportunities.

Link to Kitely  

September 11th Remembering what happened

I still do remember what happened on that day. I cannot forget it. It was a tragedy and we learnt that we were living in world of  uncertainty. I could not but  watch the videos and I could not believe it was happening then.

I was watching television in Italy , it must have been a  TV show,when we saw a special edition of the news informing us about what had happened in the USA and in the city of New York. The two big  Towers  were falling and  many people had died  or were dying there while  they were hoping to find a way to escape.


Since then many things have changed and yet we are still facing the greatest issue of hatre and wars. It was a war, yes, it was a war which made us realize that most of what should be safe wasn't safe at all. We changed our way of  travelling and  we became more suspicious………….

At school we do teach 11/09 - here is a  free lesson which was shared online.
It happened in  New York but it  also happened in Europe  later.

We felt that we were  losing our pillars: in every place we saw enemies and  the war continued.

MMVC19 Poland History House

The event took place on 3rd  September but I watched the recording  as I was not at home when they were presenting the house.  It was one of the many onlive events which  have been organized for this  Mooc on virtual worlds.

The title of the session was " Poland History House" and the presenter was M.Sc. Dominik Undak

   Link to the recording

  We could see the presentation of this  house which is an interesting container of  information about  Poland and its past history.

The speaker  showed the features of  the place and I thought that perhaps we could have more learning  environments with similar  topics like history, history of  Art and  also documents to learn more  about  what happened in the past and in different  countries. Perhaps learners  could be more engaged while Learning in SL rather than by  reading in books. 

I thought that it was good to have educators that  are exploiting   SL but  I  feel that  not  everybody can build such " containers with resources". Educators need to have basic skills but  not everybody has such skills.

I am a bit curious about Italy: are there any similar  environments on SL?

Perhaps we could work on  history of Art and build something  that can enhance our learning and teaching. I realize that I do not know anything.

The biggest  issue would be to find  educators who are good at discovering these new  worlds. In my school nobody is  experimenting  about   virtual worlds.

I will search online and see what educators are doing. Maybe I could find something about  Art and Literature to help my learners.

Another interesting Museum is the  US Holocaust Memorial Museum which can be used by  educators.

MMVC19

This year I could only watch the recording of the Virtual Conference MMVC19. It is in August and it lasts three days.
I could see some interesting speakers who  spoke about online learning, using  Moodle for teaching and presented  interesting experiences online thanks to using some apps like  Google.


My reflections about some of the webinars  are in the blog I have where I present some ideas about the use of technology in education.

Here is my short presentation created for my reflections online : MMVC19 is a community of educators  who are open to share and learn together.


 

Reading and the challenges of teaching reading

I belong to a generation of readers. Reading was my favorite past time during the summer and  I  read plenty of books as a teenager  while I was not  at school.

Today my students are not  so fond of  reading. They love surfing the web and  chatting online. Most of them  just read a book because they are asked to write  a short summary about it.
Some have  many books and  read them in their  free time while  others just  go to the library and borrow what they need to read. Some sell the books they have bought as they do not love books.

They  are asked to read a book and this is bad as they will never enjoy the pleasure of touching and reading a book. This  approach to reading will influence  their reading habits  as  they will never  develop  as learners and will not be ready to continue  learning and reflecting on what really matters.

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Where's your favourite place to read? Helen Beatrix Potter, Frontispiece: The Tailor Mouse c.1902

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The article  presented online in the  website about  self-development  underlines that there many reasons for underlying the importance of reading: just check it and you will agree that reading can be an important activity and you will also develop as a learner

 https://www.selfdevelopmentsecrets.com/benefits-importance-reading-books/

Their infographics has a long list of benefits related to the  habit of reading. I cannot but think that reading is important regardless of your age.

Infographic about reading and its importance


When teaching languages we do need to rely on activities that can enhance  reading: a  reading club can be something we can work on. An English  reading club could help my lazy learners as we could  choose among the books to read  and we could interact on what we have  learnt.

Edutopia has presented some   ideas  shared by  educators dealing with the issue of literacy and reading:

https://www.edutopia.org/article/starting-heritage-language-book-club

Which are the main advantages for working on developing  reading skills?

• learners can learn from mistakes
• learners   can learn about  grammar while reading
• by scanning  texts learners can build bridges between their language and the other language that they are learning

An interesting activity shared online  is  Collaborative Reading: check this video released by Edutopia- the young  learners are getting engaged and are learning while  reading.

I feel that teaching needs to find new  bridges into the learner's paths as today's learners are different and they might not love reading but  they also need to be trained and helped to develop their critical thinking skills.

Learning and reading about  heroes and important people  who  are admired by our learners is the first step to find reading texts and topics to cover for our syllabus: Shelly  Terrell has  given a lot  of tips in her blog and you can read more about this  online

http://www.shellyterrell.com/superhero.html

I must support  reading activities  in my classes  this year: the challenge is to get the learners into reading for pleasure and for learning. 

International Friendship Day

⭐ #ErasmusPlus = friendship without borders ⭐

Millions of international friendships began through Erasmus. Don't let them fade - say hello to a faraway friend today 💙#InternationalFriendshipDay pic.twitter.com/DLjig8KLvW

— Erasmus+ (@EUErasmusPlus) July 30, 2019

I found this interesting post shared by  Erasmus Plus and  at the same time I also found an interesting story shared online about  the time of Nazism.  The story is a story about  the friendship of two girls who were penpals . One was living in  Europe while the other was living in the USA. The first one belonged to a Jewish family and when Hitler came to power they had to find a way  to  escape  and  avoid  being sent to the concentration camps.

This story can help us reflect on what we can do for the others and how we can change the life of people if  we are human  beings. If we do not  decide, we will never be " human", since caring about the others is really important.

Here is the link to the  document online which I am  going to use with  my students of the  fifth year  when school starts in September.


https://exhibitions.ushmm.org/americans-and-the-holocaust/personal-story/marianne-winter


 
I cannot but say that if more people had " worked " to fight against the persecution of the Jews , we would have  changed history.

Teaching English: songs

I was surfing the web yesterday and I came across this collection of videos which can be used to teach English. It is still work in progress and it was shared online. Here you can  find some videos which have been used by educators to work in  English.

I am used to introducing some topics in English by presenting some videos. I must confess that I really like it.
What is really  interesting is  to choose among a variety of texts which we can use in class.
I will check this repository online and see if some  songs can be used in my class too.
In this way we can get more engagement and perhaps learners will be more interested in learning new idioms.


Resources online

https://www.britishcouncil.org/voices-magazine/pop-songs-connected-speech-fluent-english 

Remembering the first landing on the Moon

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“Artist” is not a word we usually associate with astronaut Neil Armstrong. Yet a photograph taken by him 50 years ago today, “Buzz Aldrin, Moon Walk Reflection” is now in the National Gallery of Art's collection. He and fellow Apollo 11 crew member Buzz Aldrin photographed each other and their marks on the Moon using a camera specially modified for their bulky, gloved hands. 👨‍🚀📸 Find your Sea of Tranquility and check out “By the Light of the Silvery Moon” as we celebrate the anniversary of Apollo 11’s successful Moon landing! 🌖 #apollo50 #apollo11 #ngalunarphotographs

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Fifty  years  ago we had the first men landing on the moon. The event was  awesome and as a little child  I could but not imagine  my life in a new land, the moon. I cannot remember much but  I thought the  human beings could  get any planet in the universe.
Since then men have experienced  new discoveries  but  we have also  faced difficulties.


Since I love writing and  I am interested in creativity and English  Language learning I could find this interesting ebook online created by using  an app  Story Jumper. You must  read it and be inspired.

Read this book made on StoryJumper

It is a great tool which can help your learners write about themselves and enhance their ability in writing, storytelling for example.

 The Merriam Webster dictionary  has provided some  language input  which is worth sharing:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/glossary-of-moon-terms-and-definitions/selenography

Here you can listen to an interesting document online  shared thanks to  Listenwise:

https://listenwise.com/students/lessons/585-apollo-8-mission

And here is the poem by one of the greatest  English  romantic  poets:

Read “To The Moon” by Percy Bysshe Shelley on Genius



Enjoy this event !

Teaching about Mandela and modern history

Mandela's day is celebrated every year on 18th July.

I was fascinated by  the man who was in prison and  fought for the  rights of the black people in his counntry.  I do remember  reading about  South Africa and its apartheid when I was studying  geography in secondary school. I was shocked by what I read about  the system  that  segregated people.

This year  I could teach  about the history of  Apartheid when I did a short  text by  Nadine Gordimer with my fifth year  students. I felt inspired by some videos and also  some songs which can help us  introduce  Mandela and apartheid in the English lessons.

When searching online there are plenty of resources. Here is the one  shared online by  TeachingEnglish.

🗓 On #MandelaDay (18 July), people aim to give 67 minutes of their time to helping others.
⭐️ Here, students learn about Nelson Mandela and his life in South Africa during the apartheid period.
👉 Download the lesson plan and student worksheets here: https://t.co/3LT20bgQak pic.twitter.com/2e3R49Yor2

— TeachingEnglish (@TeachingEnglish) 17 luglio 2019

Resources online

Mandela's day websources


My Lesson Plan and materials

Introduction created by using  a  free  world cloud  tool: I just had to copy the text of the song by the  Simply Minds

https://www.wordclouds.com/

Talking and guessing about the issue in the song 

The students will have to talk about the content of the song and  be guided into  finding more information about   Mandel .

Listening and  Viewing  Skills

The students  watch the video about the song and focus on the information they can get from the text and why it was  written.

The students are given the video trailer about a famous  film about  the life of  Nelson Mandela and will discuss about  what they have seen and what they know about  the man.

Follow up

The students do the activity  about  the  hero Mandela at home- it is a lesson shared online but it can help the learners work on their own and will  listen to some  more information in a guided  biography online.

https://ed.ted.com/featured/fZIlNzq6


The next  step: creativity

The students have to work in a group and  create an artefact in English about  Mandela and  the history of  South Africa.

They can use online editors for photos and create their text online  to be shared by using  Google Slides and any tool for making  videos.

Image of  Mandela created by  using  https://www.fotor.com/features/goart.html

World Refugee Day

We can learn from the past and from the others.

Let's remember  what happened- it is  happening again, regardless of the lesson.

 

Europe and its values

The recent elections in Europe have  created a great debate online and also in my country many people fear the Union. Some are not aware of the importance of  Europe and think they are responsible for the problems in many countries.

Why  Europe?

Because together we can share values and because we have been able to live in peace for years. After the sad events that occured  during WWII and in the dark age of the Holocaust our fathers decided to build a continent in which democracy and peace were its main values.


We should never  forget this.  Today we travel and work in different countries and  Europe is promoting education and well-being among its citizens. The Union cares for the old, the young, the unemployed, the disabled and since 1945  Europe has been a continent without wars, apart from what happened in  Bosnia in the  1990s.

Today I came across this post which mentions the ideas expressed by an important Italian  thinker and professor, Umberto Eco: today's Europe has its roots in the past.

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“Cari ragazzi, ringraziate di essere europei. Voi per fortuna non sapete che cosa sia una guerra. Per la prima volta in millecinquecento anni di storia, dal 1945 a oggi abbiamo avuto quasi settant'anni ininterrotti di pace (se si esclude un conflitto nei Balcani, atroce ma localizzato e abbastanza breve). Voi siete i figli di settant'anni di pace. Forse la pace vi annoia, ma se non ci fossero stati questi settant'anni voi forse non sareste nati, o sareste morti a sette anni giocando tra le macerie e inciampando in una bomba inesplosa. E invece molti di voi possono non solo vivere in pace a casa loro, ma tentare l'avventura del programma Erasmus e sperimentare come si vive e si studia in altri Paesi. Perché godete di questa fortuna? Perché delle persone illuminate che si chiamavano Altiero Spinelli, Alcide De Gasperi, Konrad Adenauer, Robert Schumann e altri, fondatori dell'Europa unita, hanno capito che non solo per necessità politiche ed economiche ma anche per profonde ragioni di unità culturale si doveva riconoscere il nostro continente come una patria comune. Ringraziate Iddio o la sorte, come preferite, di essere nati europei e non fidatevi dei falsi profeti che vorrebbero farci tornare indietro di settant'anni.” Umberto Eco, Quirinale, 29 novembre 2014 [Photo by Emmanuel Dunand/AFP]

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We should never forget that today our children and people living in Europe are working and studying in a place where the best minds and ideas can work together. There is a mix of languages and cultures and we are developing in order to offer the best to our citizens.

Ersmus Plus, Comenius and  Leonardo are some interesting project that are or were aimed at educators and learners . They promote European  values and schools and educators have learnt to work together while sharing ideas and learning about other  cultures.
The European Union promotes Language Learning and Teaching and as an educator I have already done many Moocs which are supported by the Union. I have met other educators online and we have shared ideas and learnt together.






Many young people  have  studied in Europe and  have acquired new skills  thanks to the European projects.

My students have done some training in Europe: some have been to Belgium while others  did some training in Finland and also in  Spain. They have met new cultures and have learnt about the Union.

Without these projects which promote mobility among learners, university students and also workers we would not be open to new worlds and cultures  and this is one the main reasons why  we  do need Europe.



 

 Less Europe means we become a sort of an island , like the Uk , this implies not living in a community  and rejecting the values which are  the foundations of the European culture.

At school we do work on projects and we do learn together. Thanks to Etwinning we can say that our students are  an online learning community.

Verso il voto, il messaggio degli studenti del Salvemini di Casalecchio: 'Un'Europa senza confini' https://t.co/bQRrD4Vmvr di @repubblica

— Tiziana Angiolini (@Virginiawoolf64) 20 maggio 2019

Every year we  celebrate  Europe, the date is important: it is 9th May.

We need to continue  living in Europe and to enrich our life and culture.  We need Europe and Europe needs us.

#ErasmusPlus brought us together
We shared moments of laughter, joy & difficulty
Enriching lives, opening minds
We became ourselves; we became European.
Happy Europe Day 🇪🇺💙 pic.twitter.com/h9M46U5bcJ

— Erasmus+ (@EUErasmusPlus) 9 maggio 2019

Looking forward to the Sunshine

On a rainy day, the last day of May we went to vote for the European Parliament.

 In Italy the weather has been  rainy and cold for weeks, this May has been one of the  worst I have ever seen.

It is time to take off  jackets and  shoes and to wear  T-shirts and  sandals but  we are still in the mid of winter and spring has not  arrived yet.

It might be  Global Warming or  just a special year in which  Nature is trying to talk to us to let us know that we do need to care.

I have spent the last weekends at home and I wish I could walk and listen to the birds singing in the garden.

 I do really hope next weekend I will be able to go out and  read the newspaper in the garden.

MAY 2019 by tangiolini

Sofia Corradi - Mamma Erasmus

Her name has become important for the many students who have  learnt abroad. When I finished university  Erasmus had just started and I felt that I had missed something.

Erasmus was born thanks to an Italian woman who  studied in Europe but at that time  there was no official recognition of the period spent abroad.
Since then  millions of  young people have studied, worked and  lived abroad and they have been supporting  European projects.

Thank you  to  Sofia Corradi!!

Happy #MothersDay, Mamma Erasmus! 🎈

The idea for the Eramsus came to Sofia Corradi in 1958 when her university did not recognise her year abroad. Fast forward 61 years, and millions have benefitted from her work & commitment. https://t.co/QeK2QZYeer pic.twitter.com/sz0A5tvbRc

— Erasmus+ (@EUErasmusPlus) 12 maggio 2019

Museum Week

To remember great women and the Past. Thanks to some people like Rose Valland we can see some masterpieces of Art. We should never forget what happened.

Women have been great !

.@UNESCO supports #MuseumWeek & the global movement #WomenInCulture! On this occasion, get to know the story of Rose Valland.

History remembers the #MonumentsMen; but now it's time to talk about the courage of a true #MonumentsWoman who remained in the shadows for way too long! pic.twitter.com/itFLRgdQQx

— UNESCO (@UNESCO) 18 maggio 2019

Mother's Day

Pictures, videos  and paintings  are shared online, they are  about  Mother's Day: I  discovered Instagram and I am using it for my activities.
Today I found interesting things worth sharing: they might be used in my English lessons but also in some Art lessons

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Happy Mother's Day from the Frick! We celebrate today with a photo of Adelaide Frick (Mrs. Henry Clay Frick) with her children Childs, Martha, and Helen Clay from 1888. #FrickCollection #MothersDay #FrickArchives

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Happy Mother's Day from the Art Institute! 🤱 . In 1906 Gari Melchers exhibited this sympathetic portrait of a woman and her child at both the Paris Salon and the Art Institute. Melchers portrayed the pair with vivid intensity, contrasting the woman's direct gaze with the charming appeal of the baby's chubby face. See "Mother and Child" on view in American Art.

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Happy Mother's Day to the most caring, brilliant, funny, and grounded woman I know—a perfect role model not just for our daughters, but so many others. Love you, @MichelleObama.

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There are a lot of resources which can be used by educators, not only  Instagram but a lot of websites are sharing resources online. Here are some I have just discovered.


Resources online

https://www.education.com/resources/mothers-day/

https://www.esolcourses.com/topics/mothers-day.html


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Happy Mother's Day to all Moms!