Every nation has numerous legends connected with its history. The mystique behind these legends has always fascinated so many people: they can be intriguing, terrifying or even surreal. We can see them as beautiful love stories or amusing stories for young children. Whatever people find in them, legends are indisputably a part of our culture, history and identity. They are a remainder of past times when life was different and more simple than today. Also, legends inspire language, literature, art and other forms of cultural expression. Unfortunately, nowadays young generations are mainly focused on technology and "modern" way of life and their interest in history and tradition is decreasing. We want to draw our students' attention to a small part of their home town history, to stories, legends and different times. Also, we would like to motivate our students to write their own stories and create a different and creative world of imagination. The aim of the project is to make students aware of their home town history through intercultural education. We aim to encourage them to learn more about history of different European countries, comparing similarities and differences in the chosen legends, hence emphasizing cultural diversity and the need for cultural tolerance and inappropriateness of prejudice. We feel such projects and contents can enrich local tourist offer, draw attention to cultural diversity and the need for cultural tolerance, and motivate students to learn about various cultures and countries after this project.

• Materias: Historia , Informática TIC , Lengua y literatura , Lenguas extranjeras , Teatro , Ética
• Idiomas: EN
• Edad de los alumnos: 14 - 19
• Herramientas a utilizar: Audio conferencia, Diario del proyecto, email, Foro, Publicación Web, TwinSpace, Video conferencia
• Objetivos: The main objective of the partnership is to help students and teachers improve their knowledge of their own culture, as... más informaciónThe main objective of the partnership is to help students and teachers improve their knowledge of their own culture, as well as different European countries’ culture and cultural diversity. Students will get a chance to study the impact legends had on people in the past and the way they are treated in the modern world and see many similarities among different European cultures, which will lead to enhancing tolerance towards foreign cultures and preventing prejudice. It is necessary to increase students’ awareness of other cultures and countries and to teach them how they can appropriate their communication. This will be achieved via research on the topic, discussions, communication with students from partner schools (via e-mail, forums, etc.) and visits to partner countries. Another major aim will be enriching local tourist offer with products of our work which will not only give our students a view into different ways local community can cooperate, but also have an effect on their self-esteem since they will become an important part of that community. Their work will be used by local institutions after the project, which will represent their visible and long-term mark in the local communities. We will achieve this through our products (brochures, posters, a web site, a book, a glossary, etc.), creative and diverse activities, and publications in local media (radio stations, newspapers, publications, TV network, tourist boards, etc.). Since the language of our project will be English, we will aim to enhance English language skills and increase students’ and teachers’ confidence needed for efficient communication. We will achieve this through communication with partners and producing work in English. Also, the project will aim to enhance students’ ICT competence, team work skills, to teach problem solving and manage various tasks and deadlines. We will address problems that include difficulties in communication and prejudice towards different nations and cultures, and will work on improving tolerance and understanding. Also, the project will focus on problems our home towns may have with bringing young generations closer to their heritage and making them understand what young people can do to keep the history alive. ocultar
• Proceso de trabajo: 1.Classes on characteristics of a legend as a literary form; Presentations of our home towns and schools. 2.Blog of the project... más información1.Classes on characteristics of a legend as a literary form; Presentations of our home towns and schools. 2.Blog of the project legends of my town. 3. Project meeting in Croatia. 3."Legends in Visual Arts" - research; Work on the brochures of the towns and the legends. 4.Translating the legends to English. 5.Historical research - researching the credibility of the chosen legends. 6.Project meeting in Slovakia. 7.Project meeting in Spain. 8. Comparative glossary. 9.The work on comics. 10.Preparing CDROM. 11.Project meeting in Poland. 12.My Hero": writing stories about an invented hero. 13.Project meeting in Romania. 14.Animating students' heroes. 15. Project meeting in Turkey 16.Workshop - introduction to writing legends; "My legend": students write their own legends. 17.Project meeting in Latvia. 18.Final work on CD ROM. 18.Final work on the ebook. 19.Project meeting in the Czech Republic: ocultar
• Resultados esperados: 1.PowerPoint presentations of our schools and towns. 2.Blog of the project dedicated to the project progress. 3.Comenius Corner - a corner at... más información1.PowerPoint presentations of our schools and towns. 2.Blog of the project dedicated to the project progress. 3.Comenius Corner - a corner at partner schools dedicated to students’ progress in the project. 4.Project web site. 5.Posters “Legends of my town” made by students. 6.PowerPoint presentations of the selected legends. 7.Newsletters sent to students, teachers, local society, our local government, Department of Education… 8.Exhibitions of photos taken by students (photos of the progress, workshops, settings of the legends, the towns…). 9.A model of a scene or the setting of a selected legend (each country will make its own model). 10.Tourist brochures of our home towns. 11.A charity contribution - by selling chosen type of artwork. ocultar

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