Paperman : Valentine's Day at school ! Let's fall in love !

Paperman

John Kahrs, 2012

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Paperman 

George & Meg

https://www.disneyanimation.com/projects/paperman

My students love toa talk about love and to have a different lesson at Valentine's Day, February 14th! So, I always prepare something new to my class on this day.

I'm sure that your students love too talk about Valentine's Day in the classroom! 

I would like to share some suggestions about a lovely short film that you can explore into your lessons at Valentine's Day.

But first, let's talk about Oscar nominees. Paperman is one of the 10 animated shorts being considered for an Oscar at the next Academy Awards. 

Paperman 

|George & Meg

https://www.disneyanimation.com/projects/paperman

The innovative animated short Paperman (Disney) from first-time director John Kahrs.

This lovely short film will captivate our students at a Valentine's Day lesson! 

• Is It Destiny? 

Paperman is just stunning. A little urban fairy tale. Charming! I love how there is just a touch of red in this otherwise gray world. Meg lipstick.

Paperman/ Disney

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But, let me present Paperman! It's an innovative short animated film about destiny and the power of second chances. Believe in destiny? I do.

A young man in mid-century New York City meets with a beautiful young woman in a morning. This beautiful woman will change the destiny of the young New Yorker.

Paperman / Disney

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It's “Heart, Imagination… and Paper”. A young New Yorker has only his heart, imagination and a stack of papers to get the attention of the girl of his dreams in Paperman.

Paperman/ Disney 

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• Synopsis:

Paperman is the story of George, a 1950s Manhattan businessman who has a chance encounter with the woman of his dreams on a train platform. 

While at work later that day, he sees her in the building across the street and goes to great lengths to get her attention, employing the help of hundreds of paper airplanes – but to no avail. 

Just as he’s about to give up, luck finally starts to go his way and that’s where the real magic begins.

Paperman 

George & Meg

https://www.disneyanimation.com/projects/paperman

Education:

"the whole purpose od education is to turn mirrors into windows"

Sydney J. Harris

Passion is essential to teach. We must keep our students captivated in our lessons.

Every day we must introduce something captivating in our lessons, even we are teaching important skills in serious curriculum. Passion is what will make our students enter in the classroom waiting for something special in the middle of a lesson every day. 

They will really realize that teachers love what they do, that we think about them when we are preparing a lesson for the next day. 

Keep your students passionnate in your lessons, always.

So! It's Valentine's Day! Captivate the students with Paperman at the begining of your lesson.

But first just got an idea: buy some of those funny postcards Valentine's Day, write something nice about every student and leave them on the tables before students enter in the classroom. Just an idea! 

sketches and final frames from Disney's new short Paperman

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• Activities:

Start the lesson asking them to use their smartphonesb and search the link that will share with the short film Paperman on YouTube. 

Each student will watch the entire six-and-a-half-minutes  video just for fun. 

Surprise is essential to keep students wired !

Keep an eye at their reactions, began a word wall. Word walls offer readily available support to readers and writers, and let you teach skills in a meaningful context. 

At the end, let's the students free to discuss with you and classmates. Every time, they express new words, ask to join write them on the word wall.

Valentine’s favorite words are just right for a word wall. 

Share with students the word wall and let them suggest other words they associate with Paperman or Valentine’s Day.

Time for critical thinking: 

Ask your students:

• How did the film make them feel?

• What adjectives would they use to describe the film?

• Does the film have a message?

Paperman gif

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Ask the students to watch the film again (big screen on computer), They should down information using some points:

• Locations

• Characters

• Actions

• Emoctions

• Message

• Music

Creative writing:

Ask students to write the story of the film using narrative tenses and rich adjectives to describe the chracters and their emotions throughout the film.

• Ask students to create the possible subtitles to introduce on Paperman.

Music:

• Finally, let students create a music short list to introduce on Paperman.

sketches and final frames from Disney's new short Paperman

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*Note: Activities will be adapt to the level you teach.

Curriculum: Languages: Mother language and foreign languages; Arts (Multimedia; Design; Music).

Level: All levers (Kindergarten to Secondary education; Vocational Education (Multimedia).

These are just a few ideas on how you can spread the love in your lesson. There are many more great ideas. 

I would love to hear how your students reacted to Paperman and how much they matter to you whether on Valentine's Day or any other day of the school year.

Paperman
 John Kahrs, 2012

https://www.disneyanimation.com/

• Some thoughts:

Paperman became one of my favorite short animated film. So poetic!

We are transported to this fantastic world, a world that we almost believe to existed at some point in time.

"Each stroke of the bow on a violin, each airy blow of the brass, each key struck on the piano corresponds to an equally simple yet beautiful action on screen."

It’s that sense of believability that makes this film so magical. It plays on those deep insecurities that we all have when it comes to love: 

What if I miss out on the woman of my dreams? Will I ever find her again? It’s a classic story that’s been told hundreds, if not thousands, of times – but in the case of Paperman, fate fights back and gives our protagonist one more chance.

"Like its main character, Paperman is a genuine expression of happiness and perseverance that will lift your spirits and merit an immediate follow up viewing. It’s proof that in this day and age, where big-budget blockbusters dominate the silver screen landscape, there’s still room for animated shorts to find a widespread audience. Paperman is a sensational work of art, one that brings a refreshing twist to a conventional story."

Now, sit and just watch Paperman (trailer) :

References :

Credits: 
Images Disney

Paperman | Disney Animation
https://www.disneyanimation.com/projects/paperman

The Miami Student
https://www.miamistudent.net/arts-entertainment

January rundown of the most-read posts

http://www.saferinternet.org/web/guest/safer-internet-day

Connect with Respect!

February 5 was "Safer Internet Day" ! I couldn't write a post about it. A lot of work! But I did it on my students blogs here (French foreign language) and here (Portuguese mother language).

However, you can't miss the post Trust: a film about safety on internet and it 's always useful read Make your Safe Internet Day. 

You know that you and your students have almost a month to work in the classroom about the theme and include activities and projects at the Competition for children and young people about their online achievements. 

There will be three categories of entry: 

• under 9

• 10-14

• over 15 

Entries will be accepted online from 5 February - 15 March 2013 inclusive.

Please use your creativity and imagination! 

And now let's talk about the most-read topics in January. As you already know, I write in English, French, and Portuguese on this blog:

No doubt! Voltaire's Candide: app for iPad in Education was the most read:

screenshot Candide app

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"Why do bad things happen to good people? Well, why not? The handsome young Candide, having been taught that this is the best of all possible worlds, quickly learns that is far from true. (...)  we must surely conclude that we can still profit by the example of lucidity, the acumen, the intellectual honesty, and the moral courage of Voltaire's Candide."

The Bibliothèque Nationale de France and Orange, with the participation of the Voltaire Foundation, have launched a digital edition of Voltaire's Candide. 

This free iPad app is now available for download from iTunes. Watch the video below (French laguage):

Education:

Educators and students have now the chance to rediscover one of the major literary classics and always read in Humanities curricula, Voltaire’s Candide, a new iPad App. 

The app innovatively redefines the scope of a literature masterpiece and help us rediscover this important French classical book, in new and engaging learning ways as you could watched on the video. 

The enhanced e-book includes the original Voltaire manuscript preserved at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France and further exclusive content.

http://www.unesco.org/

Teaching the Holocaust. Every year around 27 January, since 2005, UNESCO pays tribute to the memory of the victims of the Holocaust. This date marks the anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German Concentration and Extermination Camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau by the Soviet troops in 1945.  

In 2013, the theme chosen by the United Nations for this International Day is “The Courage to Care: Rescue during the Holocaust”. 

Each person who becomes aware of this history will no doubt reflect upon his or her own capacity to turn compassion for others into decisive and heroic action in their time of need.

photo: Children portraits

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Education:

"Freedom, goodness, giving, courage, happiness, humanity, usefulness…"

Anne Frank

Learning about this universal history can engage students in a critical reflection about the shared heritage of humanity, the roots of genocide, and the necessity to nurture peace and human rights to prevent such atrocities in the future.  

Literature and Languages curriculum is a perfect curriculum. We can talk, read, write, and learn about every subject.

Reading and writing are two important skills that students must handle easily and digital literacy as well.

Diaries are an interesting part of the Narrative text. Students love to read diaries written from other young people.

To coincide with "Holocaust Memorial Day", Penguin Books launched an app of The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank available on iTunes

The app has a wealth of embedded content: video footage of Frank's only living relative Buddy Elias, audio extracts of the diary read by Helena Bonham Carter and translated facsimile pages from the original diary. There are also "Story Trails" with titles such as "Fear" and "Life in Hiding".

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Parlons de genre... au féminin à l'école. Il est assez intéressant d'assister aux promotions simultanées d'Hunger Games et de Rebelle : 

Les deux héroïnes sont des jeunes filles au caractère fort, qui s'opposent à la conduite qui leur est dictée, et elles sont championnes de tir à l'arc, outil qui sert à leur rébellion.

La première épate le jury des Jeux de la Faim avec ses flèches (on n'en dira pas plus) tandis que la seconde se sert de son talent pour désobéir à sa mère. 

Hunger Games 2012

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Éducation:

Une nouvelle dimension féminine au moment où 'genre et parité' est à l'ordre du jour un peu partout?

Des heroïnes fortes, idépendantes et qui réussissent à se battre contres les barrières sexistes? Dans les livres et dans les films.

Bien que dans les écoles l'infrastructure soit parfaite pour que les filles et les garçons développent et démontrent leur talent, et puissent progresser, il y a souvent des petits qui pro quo quand les filles choisissent des études ou des métiers qu'on lie plutôt aux garçons: les sciences, les technologies, éducation physique.

Alors, je crois que Brave | Rebelle et Hunger Games | Jeux de la Faim peuvent bien  être des outils pédagogiques iintéressants à introduire dans des différentes disciplines pour parler de "genre et parité" à l'école.

Iban Barrenetxea |  Espanha

Digital 2011

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“The powerful, not to say unique, contribution to children's enjoyment and comprehension of language - and to their emotional development - from deep engagement with story telling and regular exposure to excellent literature is recognised throughout early years and primary education.”

The Rose Report 2009

Um Chá para Alice é uma exposição que está patente na Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian e que pode tornar-se uma magnífica aula aberta no museu sobre o texto narrativo.

Celebra o clássico de Lewis Carroll através de algumas sugestivas ilustrações contemporâneas sobre Alice. 

"This exhibition revealed the new golden age of Alice illustration – with original illustrations from contemporary editions, as well as some unpublished versions."

Esta exposição Tea with Alice foi inaugurada em Junho 2012 no Story Museum, em Oxford, a cidade que viu nascer Alice's Adventures in Wonderland há quase 150 anos (1865).

Vladimir Clavijo |  Rússia

Fotografia 2010

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Educação:

"A lesson at a Museum as a part of the curriculum will find your students enjoying the numerous interactive exhibits, the daily hands-on activities and the monthly special events."

G-Souto

Aulas abertas em Museus são uma estratégia científco-cultural que nenhum educador pode desperdiçar.

Museus são espaços perfeitos para uma aprendizagem completa dos alunos enquanto futuros cidadãos.

I really hope that you will enjoy every pedagogical proposal written in January or will discover some new pedagogical ideas to introduce in your lessons.

Of course you must not give up of motivate your students to get involved at Safer Internet Day 2013 Competion. You know how important it is to instil in our young students the ability to keep safe on the use of social media.

Thank you so much to all the colleagues from around the world that kindly read my blog every day but are shy ;-) to become followers.

Think of all the beauty in yourself and in everything around you and be happy.

Anne Frank (7 March 1944)

G-Souto

07.02.2013

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