The Art of Recycling and Reuse  

 

Form for a classroom project activity

 

 

Project Activity code:  

Name of the project activity: Illustrating a literary work with recycled materials

Teacher: Elisabetta Battistel

Group of students: 4 E (boys and girls)

Age: 17-18

Number of students: 23

Timing: 3 hours  plus 1-hour writing session

Objectives of the project activity:

• Appreciating denotation and connotation of words and their relationships in poems, “translating” a poem into a collage.
• Finding value in waste materials.
• Working in groups.

 

Description of project activities:

Observation of   a work of visual art inspired by a poem:

“ Thy Golden Hair Margarethe”  by Ansel Kiefer, a  visual interpretation of “TodesFuge” by Paul Celan 

http://www.guggenheim-venice.it/inglese/collections/artisti/dettagli/opere_dett.php?id_art=237&id_opera=660

 

 

Students read “The Tyger” and “The Lamb” by William Blake, is guided to recognize the formal qualities of each poem (sound patterns) and to explore the figures of speech.

They use recycled materials (paper, fabric, glass, cans, wool, old posters, cardboard boxes, etc) to illustrate the poems in groups.

After producing their works, they describe the activity  (see the attached file)

Spontaneous follow-up: a student involved a 6-year -old cousin in the same activity at home while studying the poem The Blossom” (using shoelaces, paper, leaves).

The works were presented during the end of school party, along with copies of Blake’s  illustrations of the same poems.

 

 

 

Methodology: Collage

Method of evaluation:

Writing after the sessions and  evaluation forms

External partnerships: ---

Required resources: poems by Blake, the Internet, glue, paper, scissors, hammer, glass containers, cans, magazines, cotton, fabric, wool yarn, cardboard boxes…

  

Signature       

 

                                                                         Elisabetta Battistel__