Erasmus Book Club

  Week in Italy , march 4th-10th 2024 Goal of the italian mobility is an attempt to come to an end with the lesson plans, tryng different ways of promoting reading among the students. We have chosen the novel The Klimt´s model by the italian writer Gabriele Dadati. All the students have previously read the novel in a traditional way, so they know the story already. During the mobility week, split into groups of mixed nationalities they discuss the content and come up with suggestions of possible lessons to be voted by all the students, those envolved or not envolved in the previous mobilities. The Klimt´s model is also the starting point of a drama experience: the students not previously envolved in the mobility have written a play from scratch and will act their final play on Thursday 7th. Monday 4th All partecipants gather at Liceo Gioia to meet the host families and spend some time with them. Tuesday 5th The whole group meet at school and join the teacher A.P. in a f...

Erasmus Book Club in Lieto, our third meeting   Our guests arrived on Friday night, the 29th of September. Swedish students and their teachers arrived at the Viking Lines port at 19:50. Austrians arrived at the bus station of Turku at 18:55 and Italians to airport of Turku at 20:15. On Saturday, the 30th of September, we all gathered in our school's auditorium and participated in different team-building activities. After that, Nina and Tina presented the projects and course plans that we had prepared earlier. Then, we had lunch and divided all the students into smaller groups. Each group conducted their own surveys about the benefits of reading. After presenting the surveys to each other, we took a break and then watched the Tove movie in our auditorium. On the first of October, we gathered outside the Exhibition Centre of Turku at 11 am. Then, we were divided into groups, each consisting of three Finnish students, one Italian, one Swedish, and one Austrian student per grou...

Our second meeting in Stockholm     The planning for the visit started early, where we all contributed with ideas and suggestions on how we could make this visit as good as possible for everyone. When the time came, there was a schedule with activities planned for the whole week. This included workshops, guided tours, and other fun activities.  The book we chose to work with was Cirkeln ( The Circle ) by Mats Strandberg and Sara Bergmark Elfgren. We managed to arrange an author visit with Sara, which was highly appreciated. Three students volunteered to interview Sara with questions that the whole group had helped put together. The interview was in English, so that everyone could participate and understand what was being said. In addition to the author visit, we worked with the book in various ways, discussing it orally and writing questions about it. After the author's visit, a movie night was organized for everyone in the auditorium, where we watched a Swedish movi...

Pictures from our meeting in Vienna  

  Vienna Project Week Erasmus+ Book Club   In December 2022, the kick-off of the Erasmus+ project titled "European Book Club" took place at our school, BRG14 Linzerstraße, in Vienna. This exchange program is funded by the European Union. During this week, 24 Austrian students hosted 24 guest students from Finland, Italy, and Sweden. Together, they worked towards the common goal of designing a European curriculum for literature, which will be used to teach literature in European schools in the future.   During the mornings team-building activities various workshops on different aspects of literature and work on the curriculum in small groups were on the agenda. Additionally, the students also got to know the Austrian school system. " I was aware that there are differences in the various school systems, but here I learned so much about Austrian school life and Austrian culture, of which I knew nothing before ," said one of the Swedish students.   In addition to the pr...