CULTURE CHOICES - A series of attractive informative projects published as E-BOOKS [if producing as an A2 Poster then Paper will be provided - but only one sheet each] in English about Latvian culture and heritage linked to English cultural examples/ Each project will be worked on over a 4-lesson length (one month).
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INSTRUCTIONS
There are 6 to make your choice from. Groups will be working on projects however you will produce your own PROJECT PORTFOLIO using the Classbook as a guide to the MINIMUM amount of work required. It will be marked as a KONTROL DARBS for April.
To respect Copyright - you are required to list the Books / Websites or other places where you got information / illustrations / photographs / maps etc from and included it as a REFERENCES page in your project book [or on a sheet of A4 /A3 paper and tape it to the BACK of your A2 poster]. This is standard practice at college or University and a good habit to get into. The list should be in the form of an Excel table [which can be copied/exported into Word].
EXAMPLE E-BOOK
CAN INCLUDE PHOTOS TEXTS GRAPHS AND CHARTS AS WELL AS AUDIO AND VIDEO FILES ALL OF WHICH CAN BE CREATED OR FOUND.
EXAMPLE POSTER
CAN INCLUDE DRAWN AND FOUND IMAGES, CHARTS AND GRAPHS TYPED OR WRITTEN TEXTS - EVEN 3-d ELEMENTS IF YOU WOULD LIKE.
MIXED MEDIA PROJECT ASSESSMENT RUBRIC
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CHOICE 01 - Sporting Event [Any that take place in Latvia and Great Britain]
TASK 01 - Likes and dislikes about football?
Organise your thoughts into the following balloons --
A) Watching
B) Style
C) Organisation
D) Playing
Organise your thoughts into the following balloons --
A) Watching
B) Style
C) Organisation
D) Playing
CONDUCT A SURVEY AND INCLUDE YOUR THOUGHTS ABOUT THE RESULTS.
TASK 02 Answer these questions about Latvija
1) How popular is football? Amongst the young / teens / parents / grandparents
2) What are the most famous clubs? Players?
Do you have any comments on the style of play by the Latvian National Team? Or the behaviour of the fans?
TASK 03 - FOOTBALL QUIZ
Listen to the audio to complete your answers to the questions displayed -
CD 06 Track 02
CD 06 Track 03
TASK 04 READING TASK linked to Task 05 and 06
Read the text about the writer Nick Hornby on P103 (Classbook) and answer the questions from task 04 and 06 - listen to the audio below to help you
CD06 Track 04
TASK 08 listen to the track and then answer the questions True or False
You NEED NOT do task 09
TASK 10
TASK 11 Write some answers to the questions in task 10 - now ask a friend to ask you the questions and you can record your reading of the answers - use the form below to send in your audio file/
TASK 02 Answer these questions about Latvija
1) How popular is football? Amongst the young / teens / parents / grandparents
2) What are the most famous clubs? Players?
Do you have any comments on the style of play by the Latvian National Team? Or the behaviour of the fans?
TASK 03 - FOOTBALL QUIZ
Listen to the audio to complete your answers to the questions displayed -
CD 06 Track 02
CD 06 Track 03
TASK 04 READING TASK linked to Task 05 and 06
Read the text about the writer Nick Hornby on P103 (Classbook) and answer the questions from task 04 and 06 - listen to the audio below to help you
CD06 Track 04
TASK 08 listen to the track and then answer the questions True or False
You NEED NOT do task 09
TASK 10
TASK 11 Write some answers to the questions in task 10 - now ask a friend to ask you the questions and you can record your reading of the answers - use the form below to send in your audio file/
CULTURE CHOICE PROJECT 01 ENDS
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CHOICE 02 - Famous Buildings / 'Oh!!! The Horror!' [Compare / relate Latvian buildings to another country]
[ Quote is taken from which book/film?]
Where is this building? What is it? Who lived there?
Now listen to audio track 05 and write your answers for task 2
Listen again and write your answers to task 3
Click on the image below [if you do not have your classbook with you] to make it bigger in a new window. Read the text carefully and answer the 2 questions for Task 04
Play audio track CD 06 Track 07
Bram Stoker was an Irish writer and Dracula is his most popular novel. Can you locate a Latvian writer of the Gothic or Fantasy genre? Introduce this writer to your reader / viewer.
Task 07 & 08
Select an important / famous building or site.
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Do online and library research to locate images and information about the site so that you can answer the questions in task 7 - BUT rather than a talk you will be producing a poster for display about FAMOUS BUILDINGS. The poster will be large [A2] and paper for this is provided - you are expected to fix your printed documents and photos as well as drawings or other material onto ONE side of the A2 sheet so it can go on the wall.
CULTURE CHOICE PROJECT 02 ENDS
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CHOICE 03 - Story / Heroines
Sometimes heroines are the subject of the story and every so often the heroine is a secondary character. Some female writers, who were working between 1600 and the early 20th Century had to take men's names as women were either - not expected - to work [as they were rich] / not given an education [since they weren't able to have a profession] or not respected as 'thinkers' become heroines for women's equality.
TASK 01
Which heroine(s) have featured in Latvian literature or through history? What are you able to find out about her / them? [store this material for your production].
TASK 02
Write your answer as sentences so that it makes sense on your poster. For example - By the end of the dialogue the relationship between Jane and Edward had become romantic rather than distant and professional.
TASK 09 and 10
Carry out some online and library research about a fictional heroine [or hero] from Latvijan history or fiction. What can you find out about -
ILLUSTRATE YOUR WORK WITH REPRODUCTIONS OF OLD DOCUMENTS / PHOTOS / ILLUSTRATIONS TO GO ON YOUR POSTER [A2 size paper provided]
TASK 02
[you may need a dictionary for the meanings of some words]
TASK 03 / 04
Here are the audio tracks you need for tasks 3 and 4
TASK 05 - WHICH OF THE HEROINES MOST INTERESTS YOU?
Write a short piece of text [200 words] highlighting the things about the character that you have selected that makes her interesting in your opinion. Include found or self-created images / videos.
TASK 06 - READ THE TEXT AND THE BIO NOTE ON CHARLOTTE
Produce a table that compares / contrasts Charlotte and her character Jane. Add photos and illustrations to make it attractive and informative.
Play the audio track first then look at task 07 - rewrite the text so that it looks like a play.
For example
Mr Rochester : I'll try to get you a job somewhere else.
Jane : I don't want to go somewhere else!
Write your answer as sentences so that it makes sense on your poster. For example - By the end of the dialogue the relationship between Jane and Edward had become romantic rather than distant and professional.
TASK 09 and 10
Carry out some online and library research about a fictional heroine [or hero] from Latvijan history or fiction. What can you find out about -
- early life
- personality and abilities
- what she or he did
- what happened to her / him in the end of the story / legend / biography
- what aspects of the character make you like them / think she or he is interesting.
ILLUSTRATE YOUR WORK WITH REPRODUCTIONS OF OLD DOCUMENTS / PHOTOS / ILLUSTRATIONS TO GO ON YOUR POSTER [A2 size paper provided]
CULTURE CHOICE PROJECT 03 ENDS
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CHOICE 04 - Nature
Nature and the land or seascape have always inspired people to create - stories, poems or plays, art and music. So why not offer the choice of taking this source of inspiration to you? So we are. You can look into the spectacular and mysterious landscapes of Latvia and draw comparisons with neighboring countries and/or Great Britain.
In the Autumn, when the trees begin to display their red orange and yellow leaves North America's north eastern states give a spectacular display - especially from a high viewing point.
Bill Bryson wrote a book called 'A Short History of Nearly Everything'. In it he makes two observations - all the atoms in our bodies cannot touch each other; there is space between them and since matter cannot be destroyed or created everything we are made of is as old as the Universe - we are just borrowing it.
TASK 01
What wildlife can you find in Latvia? Collect as many examples as you can and then classify each according to the grid shown -
make your grid attractive and visual and easy to read. Or do a presentation with you presenting the data!!
TASK 02
Listen to the audio track to complete the notes for task 02
DC 06 TRACK 11
CD 06 TRACK 12
TASK 03 - use the audio tracks above to complete answer these questions
Write your answer so that it includes a restating of the question so that on the poster it makes sense. For example to answer 1) as They are in the USA - would make no sense as the reader has no idea what question youy are answering - so you would need to write The Appalachians are a range of mountains in northeast America (or USA).
TASK 04
Who is Bill Bryson and why did he and his friend find doing the Appalachian trail a difficult challenge? Have any Latvian writers undertaken similar projects? Walking around the Latvian border for example. Or visiting as many locations as possible to build up a collection of Latvian stories / information.
TASK 05
In order to do this task listen to the audio track provided - here is the drawing
CD 06 TRACK 13
TASK 06
Here is the glossary
HERE IS HOW TO COMPLETE THE POSTER -
A video of Bill Bryson talking about his book about the universe and 4 remarkable facts he has learned
CULTURE CHOICE PROJECT 04 ENDS
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CHOICE 05 - Music
PROJECT ENDS
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CHIOCE 06 - Poetry - No Man is an Island
Poetry is not a dead artform. There are poets active now. Bob Dylan was said to be a poet as much as he was a singer back in the 60s and in the 80s John Cooper Clarke was the poet of the PUNK ROCK era. He has a very strong regional dialect!!!
One of the most famous poems ever written was by John Donne in the 1600s - it is called No Man is an Island - here are the words -
No man is an island,
Entire of itself,
Every man is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thy friend's
Or of thine own were:
Any man's death diminishes me,
Because I am involved in mankind,
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee
Entire of itself,
Every man is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thy friend's
Or of thine own were:
Any man's death diminishes me,
Because I am involved in mankind,
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee
PROJECT ENDS
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