Our morning started off with Year 8. We announced the three
winners of the fable contest as mentioned in our previous post. We asked the
students to write about themselves. We got some interesting information such as
Emilio owns thirty three types of Rubik’s cubes, Isolda’s grandfather presents
a TV show for teenagers in South America and Alejandro believes in living for
today and not tomorrow.
We had a double class with Year 10 today. During our first
class we watched a documentary called The High Man, about Irish myths and
monuments. We then showed the class
several photographs from Irish culture such as Irish landscapes, castles, round
towers, leprechauns and banshees. An image of Michael D Higgins came onscreen
and they all shouted out that he was a leprechaun which was pretty hilarious. We
wanted to give them visual representations of Irish culture to help them when
then write their own Irish / Spanish story.
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| Year 10 three best fables, Caleb, Paula and Julen |
For the second class we attempted to immerse them into Irish
culture with a combination of videos of hurling, gaelic football, Riverdance,
music from U2, The Cranberries and even Westlife. We showed a brief video
explaining the Bloody Sunday and topped it off with a video about the marriage
referendum. The vast majority of the
class have not visited Ireland so it would be unrealistic to ask them to
incorporate Ireland into their stories without visual aids. This work was
preparation for tomorrow’s class when we target specific Irish myths.
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