What would you like to teach through this educational scenario?
Introduce and increase students’ awareness of gender violence
Which work of Art have you selected to use your lesson?
“Hamlet” by William Shakespeare,
Dialogue between Hamlet and Ophelia
Dialogue between Polonius and his daughter
“Ophelia” Painting by Millais
Have you adapted this work of Art in order to fit the purpose of the lesson? If yes, how?Yes, scenes from the Shakespearean drama have been selected.
Which are the main discussion points on which you are going to focus The project will focus on:
1) The importance of words: words to love and words to hurt.
2) What gender violence is and how it develops.
3) Encourage and develop empathy and identification with others.
Which theatre techniques are you going to use in the classroom. How are you going to organize the activities of the children? Please describe what you are going to do in phases (phase 1, phase 2 etc) Theatrical techniques used: role playing, forum theater, debate, cooperative learning, process drama, documentary theater, legislative theatre. Theatrical techniques used: role-playing, interpreted reading, acting out dialogue
Activity phases:
1. The teacher presents the Heda methodology to the class.
2. The students are illustrated with the topic that will be covered during the project and will be asked to express their opinions on it: a guided debate with brainstorming will follow and all the opinions that emerge will be collected.
3. The teacher will present Shakespeare’s Hamlet to the class and the students will be asked to read the selected Hamlet dialogues in multiple voices (use of neutral masks).
4. The class will then be asked to analyze Millais’ painting by watching the video “Ophelia” by K. Branach.
5. At this point each student, using colored pencils, crayons and markers, will be asked to reproduce Millais’s painting in their own way, following their own impressions and feelings. Collages will also be made.
6. During the final phase, students will be asked to share their work with the rest of the class
How are you going to organize the debate following the artistic activity? Are you going to organize any follow up activities?
Students will be encouraged to express their opinions on the activity through guided questions and brainstorming activities. After a month the students will work on the topics covered. Furthermore, an event will be organized which will involve the sharing of the project by the teacher with the involvement of students and teachers of the school and other schools.
materials produced in the classroom
