Tasks and Stops

First Stop: Literature (School Year 2009-2010)

Task: The students are asked to co-write a new European story.

Each school is in charge of one part of the narrative (exposition - rising actions - climax - falling action – dénouement).

Before, the students in the six schools choose and study two narratives from their own literature. In each narrative, they identify and pick out three typical elements such as characters, animals, settings, atmospheres or feelings. On the whole, six elements are selected in each school.

The students of each school are given the six elements selected by the students of another school. They must use them in their own part of the story. No other instruction is given so that the students can be fully imaginative and creative.

Second Stop: Music (School Year 2009-2010)

Task: co-writing a European song.

In each school the students are in charge of one stanza of our European anthem. Each stanza is composed of lines in English but also of lines in the national languages to familiarize the students to other phonological patterns.

Every country presents a performance of the whole new song, they record it and put it on the pod cast.

Third Stop: Art (School Year 2010-2011)

Task: making paintings together

First, during the visit in a local museum, the students in each school choose an artist from their own country.

Beginning in one country, the students create 6 paintings (on canvas) based on the work of their chosen artist; they send them by post to another country where a second part is painted, etc. The paintings travel throughout each of the countries. The sixth country paints the last part and returns a painting to each partner.

To encourage the students to learn more about European painting techniques and works, each country prepares a crossword puzzle about their chosen artist and asks the others to work it out.

Fourth Stop: History (School Year 2010-2011)

Task: creating a video collection dealing with European historical figures

First, every partner school selects 3 national historical figures and prepares a promotion of these people. After the publicity campaign, the students in the other countries choose their favourite two figures (they can't choose those of their own country).

Then, they introduce these figures in home-made videos: they decide on the sorts of videos they want to make (interviews, short films, plays, etc.), write the scripts and the storyboards, perform and shoot them.

Once the videos are published, the students from the six countries are encouraged to comment and grade them.

The Apotheosis: Spring Day Event – May 2011

Some students design the final party game based on all of the activities performed during the project. Some others write the rules and others the cards used for the game.

Then the game is played on an organized Spring Day event in each school. The students who were involved in the project show the game to the other students of the school.

The party game will be presented to other students on the website of European Schoolnet (http://www.eun.com/)