Ms. Boegel and I scoured the internet, after school, for resources to teach her class about Italy. We presented a PowerPoint presentation on Italy's most famous cities, landmarks, and foods, as well as the country's most important people. From our research on Saint Francis of Assisi, we shared an an abridged biography and discussed his life. Students were asked how they felt about his choices, and what the stages of his life would have been like. They contributed to a discussion about his change from a life of materialism to a Spartan life following God. We talked about Venice, and stopped to look at satellite images of the city on livemaps (http://maps.live.com). We took class polls to find out student opinions on their favorite Italian foods, had them guess which actors from a list are actually Italian, and which James Bond movie had scenes filmed in Venice. The votes from the class polls were quickly tabulated, and put into our presentation in the form of bar graphs (made using Microsoft Excel) to show the class data visually, and demonstrate how to make graphs using Excel.
Class ended with a treat, we watched a three minute behind the scenes segment about the taping of Casino Royale in Venice. Daniel Craig (the latest James Bond), Martin Campbell (the director of Casino Royale), and others talked about the challenges and triumphs of shooting scenes in Venice. (Other James Bond Movies with parts shot on location in Venice include From Russia With Love and Moonraker)
Resources:
Italy Power Point Presentation (from Cornell University website):
www.einaudi.cornell.edu/Europe/outreach/pdf/brosch/Italy.ppt
Saint Francis Of Assisi:http://www.americancatholic.org/features/Francis/who_was.asp
Live Maps: Venicehttp://maps.live.com
Italian Food Images (for poll):
http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/regional_international/article/0,1000011,FOOD_32084_5922602_03,00.html
Casino Royale Backstage:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK6m0_42CcI
Italian Vocabulary (We weren't able to get to this site, but it looks like a fun addition):
http://www.pocanticohills.org/italy/language.htm
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