Your task: Plan a cross-curricular mini-project. Your
mini-project should incorporate some of the techniques you have seen on the
course so far. Complete the table below.
Topic and project title
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Violeta Monreal visits our school.
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Your subject area: How will the project fit with your
subject?
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My subject area is Literacy. With this project my students
are going to learn how to create a story and the sequence of events.
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Who are you doing the project with?
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With the Art teacher
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Learning objectives
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Read a biography to get information.
Plan and write a story following the sequence of events.
Act out a story.
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Anticipated problems (and solutions)
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Problems: At the beginning I wanted to create a story with
the whole class but I realized that there would be a lot of characters in the
story and it could be a little bit messy.
Solution: students worked in groups of five and create
different stories so they can act them out in front of the class to show
their mates.
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Teach your mini-project. Reflect on how it went. Be prepared
to give feedback.
Group and date taught
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YEAR 4
From the 5th of
February to the 9th of February
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What did you do?
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CONTEXT: Violeta Monreal, a
Spanish illustrator, is coming to our school to give a workshop to our
students. The Art teacher and me decided to do a project together to study
this author deeply and practise the English language through it. The project
is divided in two sections: Before Violeta´s visit and After.
BEFORE VIOLETA´S VISIT
Session 1: Introduction to the artist Violeta Monreal.
Activity 1: Silent discussion
in pairs: Could you draw a picture without any pencils, paintbrushes or
crayons? How could you do that?
We share the answers (whole
class)
I asked the students if they
know an artist that draws without any of the things already mentioned. Then I
show them some books of Violeta Monreal ( the artist we are going to know
about) and her pictures(Violeta Monreal uses the collage technique to create
her illustrations)
Activity 2: QR hunt about
Violeta Monreal
Students go around the class
to look for the information in the QR codes and fulfil their questionnaires.
AFTER VIOLETA´S VISIT
Once Violeta Monreal has
visited the children, they are going to create a puppet character in the Art
Class following her technique (She does her illustrations tearing up pieces
of paper and sticking them to create a collage). Those puppets are going to
be used to create a story in English and act it out in front of the
classmates.
Session 2: Create a story
Students watch a video that
explains the sequence of events and it has got a chant. In this way they can remember
easily the sequence of events.
After that in groups they
have to put in order a short story that the teacher gives them in pieces.
Then they study the poster (see below) retelling the story.
In the end, in groups, they
plan and write a short story(story plan) using their characters and when they
finish they tell their stories acting out in front of the class( We will need
another session to listen to every group)
(scan and attach a copy of
the material you used, or paste any links below)
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What went well
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Students were well motivated.
They enjoy the QR hunt a lot. Most of the students achieved to create well
sequenced stories.
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Reflection for future
practice
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What needed improvement/changes and
why
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I will need more tablets and
mobile phones for the QR hunt. I had only three tablets, one didn´t work well
so some groups of students had to wait to do their QR hunt.
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What would you change considering
level, age or other factors
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I would try to pay more
attention to those students that need reinforcement in English language
because although they had a lot of fun with this activity sometimes I found
them a little bit lost. For example, they had problems in following
instructions and they just copy the answers their group have in the QR hunt
but they didn´t understand so much what they had to do.
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Links/materials
here:
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