Το 1° Γυμνάσιο Μάνδρας συμμετέχει στον διαγωνισμό για το διεθνές βραβείο (the ISA award) που διοργανώνεται από το Βρετανικό Συμβούλιο
1ο Γυμνασιο Μάνδρας
8/09/12
Why use literature?
There are many good reasons for using literature in the classroom. Here are a few:
- Literature enables learners to use multiple language forms and encourages interaction. Literary texts can effectively generate discussions due to their manifold layers of meaning.
- Literature educates the whole person by relating the learner to the world outside the classroom.
- Raises cultural and intercultural awareness by exposing the learner to universal concepts such as love, hatred, death, nature, which are common to all languages and cultures. Becoming acquainted with the similarities and even differences between cultures can develop our understanding of the whole world.
- Emotional intelligence is promoted through the sharing of feelings and opinions and the attitude learners develop toward the characters, situations and values.
- Literature promotes critical thinking. Literature is fertile with ideas to critically look at.
- Using literature helps build up a learner/reader centered approach since it can lead to fruitful discussion among the students and allows students to select and engage to what may function as stimuli separately to each one of them.
1ο Γυμνάσιο Μάνδρας
8/09/12
CreatingBookCovers
Lesson Plan
Three teaching sessions (50 minutes each)
Students: Class of 20 advanced students, first class of junior high school
Materials: authentic book covers
Aims and objectives:
- to develop all four skills reading/speaking / listening with emphasis on reading and writing
- to involve learners in a project
- to present them with authentic material
- to introduce them to topic based vocabulary which they may come across in their research for the project
- to provide a starting point which will function as a stimuli for working with literary texts later on.
- to reinforce and expand the previously taught lesson
