INSPIRATION FROM CALABRIA, ITALY
My students started working on Agenda 2030 last year thanks to the eTwinning project "Poetry for a sustainable future". I introduced the 17 Sustainable Development Goals using my personal blog dedicated to the Irish poet Seamus Heaney; The starting point was a quotation from Heaney’s Nobel Prize Lecture “I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible. I credit it immediately because of a line I wrote fairly recently instructing myself (and whoever else might be listening) to “walk on air against your better judgement”. But I credit it ultimately because poetry can make an order as true to the impact of external reality and as sensitive to the inner laws of the poet’s being...I credit poetry, in other words, both for being itself and for being a help, for making possible a fluid and restorative relationship between the mind’s centre and its circumference... I credit it because credit is due to it, in our time and in all time, for its truth to life, in every sense of that phrase.” (Nobel Prize Lecture, 1995).
I also created an eTwinning section and uploaded a presentation about Agenda 2030 and World Poetry day.
Later, my students learnt about different ways of creating poetry for example emoji poetry, insta-poetry, blackout poems, shape poems and cut-up poetry using examples taken from the web and we started our sustainable poetry creation for World poetry day 2019.
Each participating student chose a goal and proposed reflections to be transformed into verses giving voice to his/her point of view.
The readings proposed in the classroom were chosen both in relation to the school curriculum and in order to enrich the vocabulary relating to the sustainable goals. Space was given to creativity through the use of pens, colors and shapes trying to create a perfect mix between content and visual representation of poetry.
We are ready for the journey toward World poetry day 2020 and students are creating new inspirational poems to be shared with the e-twinning partners .
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