April in Review & Professor Sir Ludwig Guttmann, founder of the Paralympic movement !

 

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Portrait of Professor Sir Ludwig Guttmann 

©Eva Loeffler

https://www.paralympicheritage.org.uk/

From the very first sporting event at the National Spinal Injuries Centre in 1948, my father said he wanted the Olympics for the disabled. His dream and pioneering vision certainly came true.

Eva Loeffler OBE, daughter of Professor Sir Ludwig Guttmann

Professor Sir Ludwig 'Poppa' Guttmann CBE FRS is known as the father of the Paralympic movement. He was the medical pioneer who proved that disabled sport could be as competitive and exciting as non-disabled sport.

Guttmann was born in Tost, Germany (now Toszek, Poland) on this day, 3 July 1899 and went on to receive his M.D. in 1924.

 

Google Doodle Professor Sir Ludwig Guttmann's 122nd Birthday

artist: Ashanti Fortson

https://www.google.com/doodles/

Google Doodle:

Today’s Doodle, illustrated by Baltimore-based guest artist Ashanti Fortson, celebrates the 122nd birthday of Jewish, German-born British neurologist Professor Sir Ludwig “Poppa” Guttmann, founder of the Paralympic movement. 

Ludwig Guttmann Google honors’ Father of the Paralympic Games with a doodle the German doctor considered the father of the Paralympic Games. 

The Doodle shows various paralympic athletes along with a picture of Sir Ludwig Guttmann.

 credits: unknown

via Dictionary of Neurology 

He began research on spinal cord injuries and performed several neurosurgical procedures, rising to prominence as one of Germany’s top neurosurgeons by his early thirties. 

However, with the rise of the Nazi party and the passing of the Nuremberg Laws in 1933, Guttmann was prevented from practising medicine professionally. Following Kristallnacht in 1938 and the increasing persecution of Jews in Germany, Guttmann was forced to leave Germany with his family and was able to escape to England in 1939.

Stoke Mandeville Games/Olympics for Disable

credits: unknown

via BBC Mundo

In 1948, he organized a 16-person archery contest, one of the first official competitive sporting events for wheelchair users. Later called the Stoke Mandeville Games or the “Olympics for the Disabled,” the competition demonstrated the power of elite sport to break down barriers for disability and garnered the attention of global medical and sporting communities.  

Guttmann presenting gold medal to Tony South at the 1968 Summer Paralympics in Tel Aviv

https://en.wikipedia.org/

In 1960, Guttmann facilitated the International Stoke Mandeville Games, following the 1960 Summer Olympics, the first of many Paralympic Games. 

He received numerous accolades for his contributions, the highest among which was being knighted by Her Majesty the Queen in 1966.

Today, Paralympic athletes are rightfully recognized for their skills and achievements. 

The Paralympic Games continue to be a driving force for promoting the rights and independence of people with disabilities, with a lasting impact on equal treatment and opportunity.

Paralympic games, London 2012 

credits: Getty Images

via BBC/ Mundo

Resouces:

Founder of the Paralympic Movement, Professor Sir Ludwig Guttmann was the medical pioneer who created the first Paralympic Games. 

Invite your students in-person lessons or remote learning to learn more about his story and legacy on Google Arts & Culture.

Oops! I forgot to write about the posts of April, and May. Let's do it ! The world continues to be affected by severe pandemic restrictions. In so many countries schools are always closed or reopen and reclosed schools. Millions of students don't have access to in-person lessons. 

In Portugal, in-person classes with hybrid teaching finished last days of June. Only Secondary schools and Universities continue for the exams.

Here are the most popular posts of April:

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• Intl Children's Book Day & World Autism Awareness Day

• Game of Thrones prequel : The House of The Dragon & a play ? Yes ! Prepare your students.
• Johannes Gutenberg 200th Anniversary : resources
• Education World Book Day & Copyright : Read... so never feel alone
• Happy Easter ! Let us have Hope !
• Education : Brilliant app, math and science : Learn think !

There are strict measures to deal with the new wave coronavirus across European countries and other continents.

Many involve the reintroduction of restrictions that had been eased after initial lockdowns. 

Be safe! Take care!

G-Souto

01.07.2021

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April in Review & Narrative : Marvel sequel Avengers Endgame

Avengers: Endgame

Anthony Russo & Joe Russo, 2019

https://www.imdb.com/

Yesterday, Labor Day, I went to the theaters to watch the film Avengers: Endgame. Wow! Crowded room! It's now the most tweeted about movie ever. Over 50 million tweets have been sent about the climactic conclusion to the Infinity Saga. Indeed. So emotional!

It's the 2019 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team the Avengers, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. 

It' s the sequel to 2012's The Avengers, 2015's Avengers: Age of Ultron and 2018's Avengers: Infinity War, and the 22nd film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). 

After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War (2018), the universe is in ruins. With the help of remaining allies, the Avengers assemble once more in order to undo Thanos' actions and restore order to the universe.

So it starts where Infinity War ended with Thanos snapping his fingers. That turned 50 per cent of the cosmic population, a plethora of Avengers included, to dust.

Iron Man

Avengers Endgame

credits: Marvel Studios

https://www.marvel.com/

Unfortunately, one of our most beloved heroes died. Iron Man. We were so sad! All of us went out in silence. No words, no conversation. Some tears in eyes. Intense finale!

"Make no mistake about it, Endgame is a tragedy. A number of beloved superheroes do rematerialise in the sequel, as has been widely speculated, but the MCU has undergone an irrevocable shift. Things are never going to be the same again."

Vicky Roach

The film received praise for its direction, acting, entertainment value, and emotional weight, with critics lauding its culmination of the 22-film story.

Avengers Endgame

credits: Marvel Studios

https://www.imdb.com/

"What marks Endgame apart from your average superhero movie — apart from sheer scale — is the degree to which the main protagonists have been ravaged by grief, time, and above all, failure."

Narrative. Here another sequel to teach and learn about narrative. Go to the theater with your students if you are teaching comics in Narrative. 

I think it's a splendid introduction to my review of the most read posts of April.

Here are the most read posts of the last month:


Intl Day of Sport 4 Peace & Development : resources & activities

Teaching Great Women in Humanities & Science 

Game of Thrones : Here's again the Narrative Text ! 

International Children's Book Day : books & resources

EU Sustainability Award : Green Steps, Portugal

Women in STEM : Katie Bouman & the Black Hole ! 

Earth Day 2019 & NASA #PictureEarth : Activities 

World Book Day & Copyright : resources 

My usual readers know that blogging is my free contribution to inspire new and young teachers, sharing some resources and activities no matter the subject, when I have the time between work.

Hope you enjoyed my pedagogical proposals published last April. May be you included some of them in your lessons? I'm happy!

Hope you  have a great week! 

G-Souto 

02.05.2019

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Schools : International Children's Book Day : books & resources

International Children's Book Day 2019

credits: poster Kęstutis Kasparavičius

http://www.ibby.org/awards-activities/

And here we are! Today is a very special day! International Children's Book Day! And why is so special? It's special because I love books, I love reading children's books. I love reading in my lessons. I love children's books. That's why.

I have some friends who write books or illustrate children books. And it's beautiful!

Hans Christian Andersen

credits: Bettmann Archive/ Getty Images

Since 1967, on or around the Danish novelist Hans Christian Andersen's birthday, April 2,  considered the father of the modern fairy tale, International Children's Book Day (ICBD) is celebrated to inspire the love of reading and to call attention to children's books.

Each year a different National Section of IBBY has the opportunity to be the international sponsor of ICBD. 

It decides upon a theme and invites a prominent author from the host country to write a message to the children of the world and a well-known illustrator to design a poster. 

iBbY

https://www.facebook.com/ibby.international

This year, Lithiunia is the chosen country and Kęstutis Kasparavičius is the author of the poster and the message 2019.

Theme 2019: "Books help us slow down."

IBBY Lithuania is the sponsor for International Children's Book Day 2019. Kęstutis Kasparavičius is the author of the poster and the message 2019.

"I’m in a hurry! ... I don’t have time! ... Good-bye! ... We hear words like that almost every day, not only in Lithuania, which is in the very centre of Europe, but in many other places of the world. No less frequently do we hear that we live in the age of information overload, haste and rush.

But if you take a book into your hands, you immediately feel a change. It seems that books have this wonderful quality – they help us slow down. As soon as you open a book and delve into its tranquil depths, you no longer fear that things will whizz by at a maddening speed while you see nothing. All of a sudden, you come to believe you don’t have to dash off like a bat out of hell to do some urgent work of little importance. In books, things happen quietly and in a precisely arranged order. Maybe because their pages are numbered, maybe because the pages rustle gently and soothingly as you leaf through them. In books, events of the past calmly meet events that are yet to come." (...)

Kęstutis Kasparavičius, Lithiunia

Read the message here. It's a lovely message talking about the power of books in modern life.

credits: Ester Llorens

https://www.pinterest.pt/

"Books help us not to rush, books teach us to notice things, and books invite us or even make us sit down for a while. We usually read sitting, with a book on our desk or in our hands, don’t we?"

Kęstutis Kasparavičius, Lithiunia

credits: Stock

via Washington Post

Education:

"And haven’t you experienced another miracle – that when you read a book, the book reads you? Yes, of course, books can read. They read your forehead, eyebrows, the corners of your lips as they rise and fall, but, first and foremost, books read your eyes. And looking into your eyes, they see... Well, you know what!"

Kęstutis Kasparavičius

I love this quote of the message! It's so unique! Even today, I continue to have these special feelings when I read a new book!

I am a huge fan of reading in the classroom. Teachers have an ubiquitous responsibility to encourage the love of reading in students by exploring this wonderful and and magical resource in lessons, formal and informal learning. https://www.facebook.com/events/ For the second time, several IBBY sections from all over Europe join forces to organise the IBBY European Regional Conference. Its theme resonates across Europe: the right of a child to have access to books in his/her home language and to have support for their needs as multilingual learners. The conference will take place on the 4th April at Bologna Children's Book Fair in Italy. The Bologna Children's Book Fair will be open 1-4 April 2019. For the 2019 edition in Bologna there was the selection for the Illustrators Exhibition of Bologna Children Book Fair 2019 and the jurors -  Diego Bianchi (Argentina), Maciej Byliniak (Poland), Alessandro Sanna (Italy), Harriët van Reek(Holland), Béatrice Vincent (France) - had to examine the artworks sent by 2901 illustrators coming from 62 countries.  http://www.bookfair.bolognafiere.it/ Here the list of the 76 selected illustrators, coming from 27 countries and regions (Brazil, Canada, China, Finland, France, Germany, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, Mexico, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, UK, Ukraine, Uruguay, Usa, Venezuela). And now some proposals in three different European languages: Portuguese: selection Bologna Book Fair 2019 Atlas das Viagens dos Exploradores Isabel Minhós Martins & Bernardo P. Carvalho https://www.planetatangerina.com/ Há poucos séculos, não conhecíamos os limites do planeta e muitas áreas do mundo continuavam isoladas, sem ligação umas com as outras.  Desconhecíamos não apenas as terras e as espécies que existiam noutras regiões, mas também as outras pessoas e as suas culturas.   Para sabermos o que era o mundo, tivemos de nos fazer ao caminho: de burro, de camelo, de barco ou a pé, saímos de casa rumo ao desconhecido e regressámos com as novidades espantosas de outros lugares. Read more here Nível etário: 10-15 anos Mon toi Stéphane Girel https://www.cultura.com/ Elle et Lui ont chacun un "chez soi". Mais il y manque... un je ne sais quoi. Alors, ensemble, ils partent demander aux autres, là-bas. A chaque rencontre une maison... qui en dit long sur son habitant : pour celle-là, dessus c'est dessous, dehors c'est dedans... l'architecte a dû se tromper ; pour cette autre tout peut s'écrouler tandis qu'à côté, ça a l'air plus baraqué !  Au fil de ce voyage plein de diversité, tous les deux se demandent : Et chez nous, ce serait comment ? Sûr ! Tout est à construire. Mais déjà, ils ont chacun le demi plan du royaume de leur rêve commun. Car, c'est sûr, ces deux-là s'aiment. À lire ici Âge: 3-5 ans Five More Minutes Marta Altes https://guardianbookshop.com/ Time is a funny thing. Dad talks about it a lot, but I think I know more about time than he does. A child gives his time-starved dad some sage advice about what 'time' really means, and how to make the most of it. Read more here Age: 3-7 International Children's Book Day is a captivating motivation to show your students how reading can be a gift by stimulating the imagination and "offering creative solutions to obstacles that we will find along the way." As educators, can we make every day an International Children's Book Day? Yes! We can! And those special days are always a awesome reason to read. The love for books and reading are beautiful moment in Languages curricula. Of course, today is the day of reading by pleasure! Let your students read what the books they like the most. There are two reasons for this: One is benefiting those readers in your classroom that wish to read from you and need to let them be free.  Secondly, it is so you can reap the exponential rewards their choices offers.  By inviting your students to go at the school library and choose a book to read aloud in the classroom that will let them free to read a book they like.

"I am sure that books are never bored when they are in your hands. Someone who enjoys reading – be it a child or adult – is much more interesting than someone who doesn’t care for books, who is always racing against the clock, who never has time to sit down, who fails to notice much of what surrounds them."

Kęstutis Kasparavičius, message 2019

G-Souto

02.04.2019

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