Skills that you are going to strengthen with this activity:
-Competence in artistic and cultural expressions: you will improve awareness of the influence of classical mythology in literature over time.
-Linguistic competence: you will strength basic skills in English, classical languages, literature and arts. You will also develop imagination and creativity.
-Social and civic competence: working in international teams will improve your multicultural and multilingual competence.
-Digital competence: Search for and process information critically and sistematically. Collaboratively create and share digital content.
-Sense of initiative and entrepreneurial spirit: You will develop initiative, proactivity and innovation.You are going to create digital content.
-Learning to learn competence: you will be able to pursue and persist in learning, to organize your own learning, including through effective management of time and information, both individually and in groups through cooperative work and interdisciplinary methodology.
Assessment rubric
Professor Abraham Van Helsing, a fictional character from the 1897 gothic horror novel Dracula by Irish author Bram Stoker, is an aged polymath Dutch doctor with a wide range of interests and accomplishments.The character is best known through many adaptations of the story as a vampire hunter and the archenemy of Count Dracula. Wikipedia
Professor Abrahamus Van Helsing (Anglice Abraham Van Helsing), doctor universitatis, magister artium mysthicarum est in Dracula libro Abrahami Stoker scriptoris Hibernici. Doctoris instrumenta sunt: ossium claves ad ianuas effringendas, alii florum languidorum serta, crux argentea, rosarum silvestrium ramus et sorbi aucupariae arboris ramus. Vicipaedia
Public domain image
Van Helsing poster belonging to the movie Van Helsing (2004)
Here are some tools that Van Helsing uses to defend himself against vampires and defeat them:
-Skeleton keys used for lock picking to open the doors to many of Dracula's hiding places located throughout London.
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-Wreath of withered garlic blossoms.
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-Silver cross.
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-The branch of a wild rose.
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-The branch of a serbal tree.
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Do you dare to prepare a collaborative presentation on Dr Van Helsing?
In this activity, after discusings about the Dr Van Helsing fictional character, we are going to collaborativelly create a presentation with genially.
The presentation shall include:
1-The description of Dr Van Helseing character after Soker`s novel.
2-The role Dr Van Helsing plays in the narration of the novel.
3-The equipment Dr Van Helsing uses in hunting vampires and monsters.
4-The most remarkable films and tv series in wich Dr Van Helsing appears.
5-The theatrical or musical shows in wich Dr Van Helsing has appeared.
6-The comics in wich Dr Van Helsing appears.
7-The fictional characters descendants of Dr Van Helseing.
Drive document to organize work within the international team
Assessment rubric
Collaborative product: Dr Van Helsing presentation.