Last year I
ran another project with my Intermediate students ,inspired by my dear
colleague Patty Salguero, an English teacher in Peru. We talked about running a
joint project in an attempt to connect our students through arts. We decided to
talk about Peace and War ,our creativity triggered by
Picasso’s painting Guernica.
I took it a
step further and added more forms of Ars, filming and music. This is the first
post of the whole project, starting with interpreting Picasso’s painting,
Guernica. I will present it like a lesson plan so that I can it keep it brief,
precise and clear.
GUERNICA
Step 1
Present the
painting over a projector on the whiteboard. Let the students observe the
painting. Let them even come close to the whiteboard so that they can have a
closer look.
Step 2
Give them
time to write down all the objects they have seen. It is a good chance to
revise vocabulary related to emotions, war, peace, face expressions
and body language. Draw a mindmap with subheadings on the whiteboard and
let them add all the words they have come up with accordingly.
Step 3
As homework,
share the link of an interpretation of the painting by the expert Gijs van
Hensbergen in an article on BBC News. (Source news.bbc). Their work should be to scan the
text and note down the most important information they think there is.
Emphasise that they do not need to understand all the points of the text ,which might be of a higher
level than theirs. The objective of the task is to recognise the information
and the key meanings to fulfil the assignment.
Step 4
In the next
lesson ,students gather all the symbolism of the different parts of the painting on a
board. They can even gather them all on a digital board like padlet.com.
Step 5
In the
final stage of the first part of the project, students summarise their
comments, opinions, emotions in a paragraph. It is the time to evaluate this
masterpiece of Art on paper. They can even write a post on their blog or record
a Vlog if they wish to express themselves in digital form.
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