Film literacy
6th January
This was our first actual meeting. Today we got together
to rather make our first plans. We created this site
and talked about the partner schools and camps where
we will participate in soon. We also talked about our
other plans (watching the film, film review, debate etc).
13th January
Today we talked about what is film and literacy to
us. I thought it's just all forms of entertainment
and education, but it helped me widen my views. We then
talked about different film quotes and as an exercise
looked for the more popular ones. As homework and preparation for the
film reviews, we had to introduce a favourite film.
20th January
Finally, we started watching the film "Wonder".
First views on it are good. It seems like a good
start for a film. We also have to write down all
the important bits about the film so it will help
us with writing our review later.
27th January
We continued watching the film and watched it to the
end. We didn't have any other time to do anything else
really. We were tasked as homework to write our first
draft for the film review.
3rd February
We showed our drafts to our partners who we were sitting
with. Our teacher helped us make our thesis statement and
showed us an example of a film review for Wonder. Then we
got some additional information about the film and went home
to finish the film review.
10th February
We talked a bit about the EU and the refugee
camp to get ready for debating.
17th February
We talked about how a debate works, looked at an example
debate speech and then looked at some videos of how to
debate (what's a debate, the opening of a debate). Then
for homework we filled in an outline of a debate.
24th February
Only the people who are going to go to the Spain camp
got together on this day. We talked about what we will
do in Spain, what we should bring along, how we are going to
Spain and finally we did some fun exercises to practice debating.
Each group was given a title and we had to debate for a few
minutes with our partners.