Tuesday, September 4, 2012

“Teaching English through Art: Emerita Augusta as a Didactic Resource”.




Pictures by Eva Domínguez Gómez ©

INTRODUCTION: This project has been created to approach art and English as a Second Language from a novel perspective, using innovative spaces outside traditional classrooms, and collaborating with museums.

Monday, September 3, 2012

STAGE A: PRE-VISIT

As a practical example, the didactic use of a myth is presented to introduce the visit to the Roman town of Emerita Augusta (Mérida, Spain). 

In addition, specific exercises designed taking into account basic competencies and their evaluation criteria indicators are shown. Definitely, this project has been created to approach art and English as a Second Language from a novel perspective, using innovative educational spaces outside traditional classrooms, and collaborating with museums.

There are three stages, A, B and C. On stage A, teachers prepare students for the visit:

ACTIVITIES:

Session I

Activity I.1: Read and learn the most important gods and goddesses in the Olympus
Activity I.2:  Read and write about our solar system
Activity I.3:  Complete the chart with the genre ofthe god, specifying the word god (for male deities) or goddess (for femaledeities) and also say of what he or she is a deity.




Sunday, September 2, 2012

STAGE B: VISIT

There are three stages, A, B and C. On stage B, teachers take students to the museum:
Once students are familiar with the Roman world, we take them to the MNAR:
MAP OF THE MUSEUM: MUSEO NACIONAL ARTE ROMANO MERIDA
ACTIVITIES: Session II  
Activity II.1: Draw a family tree with the main characters fromthe Origins of the season´s myth. 



Session III

Activity III.1: Leisure and cognates. 
Session IV
Activity IV.1:We tell the myth by its protagonists.
Activity IV.2: Scavenger Hunt/Ginkana