Let’s Write an Ekphrastic Poem

Our project is a joint project between Türkiye and Spain. Our project is about literature and painting. It is aimed for students to get to know different cultures, learn web2 tools and the English language.

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Title: Let’s Write an Ekphrastic Poem

Short Description:The aim of this project is for students to share their ideas, impressions and perspectives with students from other countries, to be open-minded and tolerant towards other cultures, to research and write works of visual art in collaboration with other students, to use the English language for an engaging and meaningful poetic experience collaboratively. This project also aims at increasing the interest in art and literature in our students and their environment by using it.

Students will focus on writing poetry throughout the year. Firstly, students will write a poem about a work of art from their home country. Secondly, they will write a poem about their international fellow students’ country. Thirdly, students will write an acrostic poem about a work of art that they will choose together with the whole team.

We will all work collaboratively on the project. In our project, we will make joint products and collaborative products with the team. We will decide on these activities together. With our project, our students will have the opportunity to get to know and promote both their own and other cultures through a work of art. Regarding the final products, we plan to have joint acrostic poetry, joint calendar, news writing, game making, poster making, choosing logo and slogan, making video, taking photos, an eBook, etc.

2. Project Languages

Language: English

 3. Pupils

Number of pupils: >100

Ages: From 15 to 17

 4. Subjects related to the project

Subjects: Art, Foreign Languages, History and Language & Literature, sociology, and psychology.

 5. Key competences

Key competences: Citizenship, Cultural awareness and expression, Digital, Entrepreneurship, Personal, social and learning to learn.

6. Aims

For our students:

1.    To get to know other students and cultures through poetry and works of art.

2.    To express themselves accurately and fluently in English, both orally and in writing.

3.    To express ideas and thoughts about art in a respectful way.

4.    To communicate with other students through the Chatroom, Forum and online meetings on Esep eTwinning pages.

5.    To develop the digital competence using Web 2.0 tools such as Esep eTwinning platform, Google Slides, Canva, Mentimeter, Padlet, Quizizz.

6.    To recognise and express their own feelings through poetry and works of art.

7.    To contribute to their interest in poetry, art, literature and their environment.

8.    To learn about national and international cultures.

7. Work process and calendar

Our project is for middle school and high school students aged 15-17 in the 2023-2024 academic year. As the project founders, we prepared the draft of our project. When our team is complete, we will complete the final form of our project plan together.

September 2023: Building Our Team 

•    Obtaining the parents' permission documents of the students.

•    Registration of teachers and students in the project.

•    Teachers and students introduce themselves with the avatar program

•    Planning the mixed school teams, the distribution of tasks, deciding on the project plan and activities together

October 2023: Our Polls and Chat Room Event

•    Meeting with students in the chat room. Meeting the team and evaluating the project

•    Pre-tests for teachers and students,

•    Choosing the project logo and slogan

•    Announcing the March acrostic poetry writing event in October. Choosing the table in the activity together, focusing on the table and the subject, making the task distribution for the acrostic poem.

November 2023: Preparation for March 21 and April 15 (Our Research, Writing and Presentation Event)

•    Online meeting for Students and Teachers

•    Students write news about the online meeting on the school web page.

•    What is ekphrastic poetry, how is it written? research and write with bibliography in the forum.

•    Students' preparation and playing activity related to the subject.

December 2023: We Learn Ekphrastic National Poets and Poems

Making eBooks with Storyjumper from at least one ekphrastic poem and bibliography by well-known, deceased national authors of each country

Students read the eBook and make a poster out of the emotions they will develop.

It is planned that schools will make a common calendar from poetry posters.

January 2024: We Choose the Universal Poet and Poetry

•    Students choose a universal artist and his work with Mentimeter.

•    Students' research about the poet, the historical and cultural importance of the poem, and why it was written. Students write on the forum with bibliography.

February 2024: We Write and Post the Universal Poem in Collaboration

•    Students write their chosen international poem in their own handwriting. Then, students are expected to reflect their feelings about the poem on the collaborative poster.

•    Planning board activities related to Safe Internet Day.

March 2024: We Write an Acrostic Poem

•    Students are expected to decide on the painting to be a source of inspiration and to look at it, think about it, comment on it, and discuss it on the chat room for a certain day. Then, when inspiration comes, we expect them to write an acrostic poem on the subject

•    Writing an acrostic poem titled “World Poem Day / Let's Write an Ekphrastic Poem” to celebrate 21 March World Poetry Day

April 2024: We Are Writing the Joint Article “April 15 World Art Day”

•    Each student will draw and write a letter. At least 1 poet from different countries and the name of his work will be included in the corner of the papers.

•    It is planned to create a joint product with the inscription "April 15 World Art Day" by combining the photographs of these letters with Canva.

•    Poetry concert accompanied by music.

May 2024: Final Surveys and Project Evaluation

•    Conducting final surveys for teachers and students with Google Forms.

•    Preparing the project evaluation with Canva Slide, Wordart, posting it on the forum and completing the project with the last online meeting.

•    Each school's monthly activity visuals are made with their own school video.

•    Informing those who want to apply for the quality label and making the application.

Note: Every month our project activities will be published on the Esep eTwinning platform, on the school website and on social media. Sometimes our students will also write news.

Safety rules will be followed in every shipment. Photo shoots will be event oriented. Attention will be paid to copyright, source reference and free image selection.

8. Expected results:

1. We hope students get to know other international students and cultures through poetry and art.

2. We hope that students will be able to express themselves accurately and fluently in English, both orally and in writing.

3. We hope that students will respectfully express their ideas and thoughts about art.

4. We hope students will communicate with other international students via emails, the eTwinning platform, chat room and online meetings.

5. We hope students will develop their digital competence using Web 2.0 tools such as the ESEP eTwinning platform, Google Slides, Canva, Mentimeter, Padlet.

6.To enable students to recognize and express their own feelings through poetry and works of art,

7.We hope that it will make students interested in poetry, art, literature and their environment.

8. We hope that students will learn about national and international cultures.

9. We hope that our students will post project news on their school web pages. Thus, we think that they will learn to write news articles.