Greece

HIT THE BOOKS (GREECE)

ACTIVITIES IN BETWEEN MEETINGS

• Visiting libraries,

• watching films about the power of voice or the strangling of citizenship

• making video clippings from films (in native language) indicative of the power of democracy or a collection of artwork portraying democratic values and human rights or the suppression of them

Freedom of speech,

Democracies vs Tyranny

How can young people be heard on the national and EU level, how can they propose initiatives

Mass media/ propaganda

Propaganda vs collaborative problem solving

ACTIVITIES AT THE MEETING:

• Ice breaking activity: Students are given strips of paper with words corresponding to authoritarian government (dictatorship, no elections, censorship,etc.) and in groups they replace them with opposite/positive ones.

• Presentation: Students from each country present the subtitled video clippings and explain the time and the situation.

• Debate:on the presentation

• Workshop: Students bring some translated pieces of writing from their country(extracts from novels, plays, poems etc) promoting anti-democratic behaviours and stands of authority

• They role-play the situation to the other groups.

• In international groups they discuss about it.

• Workshop: Make a mindmap of keywords related to human/civic rights

• Workshop: Make a Kahoot game with words related to democracy and democratic ideals

• Simulation of ancient Assembly of Citizens

SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS:

ICT: mindmap

Kahoot game

VISITS:

Local library or National Gallery

The Town Hall

Ancient Messini

(The Greek Parliament)

The Acropolis

OUTPUT:

• T-shirts or fabric bags with key words about human rights and democratic values

• Kahoot game

Excerpts from books (?) with drawing of the students

Dramatisation (or dance) of some parts of a book(?)

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