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I don't know you but I'm more and more stricken by the growing number of young people living in the streets with their dogs. Usually, I avoid looking at them. I'm not proud of it. I watched a documentary about the phenomenon and was really affected by...
Well, I've just received Loïs work and it's just awesome! She decided to tell The Fifth Child story with a different point of view. The scene describes a dialogue between Dr Brett and the nurses. They are talking about David & Harriet. You'll find below...
I assume you study the passage of the institution in class. The extract from the novel The Fifth Child is thrilling and really gloomy. It's a key moment of the novel and the atmosphere described is horrific. Possible project: Why don't we try to represent...
Exquisite corpse (also known as exquisite cadaver or rotating corpse) is a method by which a collection of words or images is collectively assembled. Each collaborator adds to a composition in sequence, either by following a rule (e.g. "The adjective...
Funny idea based on the Facebook wall every user of the site uses. The idea is to imagine the wall of famous persons who are chatting, using the quotes that made them famous. Possible Xbloggtation: Imagine the Wall of characters from the text you're studying...
I'd like to congratulate Loïs for the important participation to the blog. I really appreciate. Actually I thank every pupil from Lycée Lacroix ;) Loïs sent me her work. She was inspired by the Kafa's campaign. I just let you enjoy the really excellent...
Well I don't know if it's Kate & William's influence but actually I had the idea a long time ago. Let's make our pupils organize a wedding. They could create a book presenting the different aspects of the wedding they've organized. They can even imagine...
Based on the same idea as some documents we presented earlier, the following campaigns are good documents to deal with appearances for example: "...not seeing the forest for the tree". Possible Xbloggation: Imagine what could be hidden behind the postcard,...
Based on the following picture, we could extract a picture from a newspaper for example and make the pupils imagine what could have happened behind, what could be the hidden truth. The following campaigns proposed by Stéphanie Cialone could be studied...
Interesting campaign based on typography. It quite old, probably needs to be updated (Ben Ladin) but the concept of drawing a portrait thanks to words illustrating it is canny. Possible Xbloggtation: If the pupils are skilled in Photoshop they may create...
I looooove flowcharts. It's a really modern tool to represent ways of thinking. It's also a useful tool for us, English teachers. Using them in class or even making the pupils create their own flowcharts is great. Flowcharts can be used to tell a story...
Here is the explanation of my work : I decided to use MTV's T shirt concept for the 5th Child characters. I took a picture of Guy, Rosemary's husband in the movie Rosemary's baby to represent David, because this movie has many resemblances with the book...
A very striking campaign to fight against verbal violence. I love the way they use sound waves as scars to denounce that violence. Possible exploitation: We could use the concept of representing sounds thanks to sound waves in a very specific purpose:...
The first character is Harriet. She's a dreamy woman, full of ambition. The second character represents her « old fashion » face. In fact, it seems she's living in a time which is not hers. In the book The Fifth Child , Doris Lessing said that Harriet...
The graphic taken from Hunch illustrates here the "fight" between mac and pc users. I like the way they represent the statistics. Possible Xploitation? It could be fun to do the same (perhaps in a less scientific way) opposing for example Iphone and Blackberry...
For our Russian doll, we decided to choose Harriet. So, first, we represented her with a child and a smiling woman because during the entire book, Harriet will try to be happy every time and it is her dream to have a large and happy family. So we took...
This is a photomontage based on the idea of the Matryoshka doll. Five characters are interlocked into each other. The photomontage intends to show the real character of Ben, to stop judging, and to show the differences between other people. We also have...
Dorothy's dolls. > This matriochka doll is about the grandmother Dorothy, that's why I chose a smily old woman at first. > Then, we can see Tinker Bell. I think that Dorothy is like her because it's like she's got a "magical power", when she's here, everything...
Cover by Camille, Kévin & Marco. Presentation : It’s cover of the book, The Fifth Child, written by Doris Lessing. Description : First, we can see 2 frames, on the left and on the right, which represents 2 eyes in red colour. And in this eye, we can perceive...
The project initiated by Mr Cadilhac and the lycée A. Einstein is really interesting! The pupils had to imagine their own covers. Here are their works! Excellent! Cover designed by Clémentine B, Clara R & Sana E Their Analysis: We chose this photo to...
Cover created by Victor, Kim, Auriane & Cathy. The Fifth Child This is our cover of The Fifth Child. It's a black and white drawing, which represents Harriet and David in front of an institution. Ben is nearly the door. At the top we can see the title...
Hi guys! Here are some documents you may find useful to use in class. They are related to road safety. Any interesting idea to use it in class in an actional project? Just Blog it! These adverts are really interesting to work in class! make pupils create...
WOW!!!!! A war has begun! I'm a big Star Wars fan and I must admit that the last Greenpeace campaign is really punchy! Greenpeace has decided to spoof the little Vader advert by VW in order to show its dark side. Indeed, for Greenpeace, VW is opposing...
You probably know the new fad which is planking. Some other strange fads developped rapidly in response to planking and thanks to/because of the net. Could be interesting to talk about these curious sociological behaviour and to know the students' opinions...
The following video could be used as a warm-up. The idea is that we still continue to discover new species (in the oceans for example) Possible Xbloggtation: Could be interesting to present a fictive newly discovered species to the class. Talk about the...
