Categoria: literary criticism

Thread about the books they are reading

The members of Our digital stories are following a thread in the e-twinning platform about the kind of books they are reading. We have added some of  the first answers by teachers and students.
Alba Chavarria: Yes, I’m reading a book right now. It is called Alys Gareth’s Daughter and some students of my class are reading it as well. The author of the book is our English teacher, Emigdi. The story is not always easy to follow because of high level grammar, but it’s a very good way to continue learning English.
 Paula Oliván: Yes, at the moment I’m reading an English book to get better my mark of this subject, the title is Alys Gareth’s Daughter and the author is my English teacher. It’s very interesting and is good to learn more English.
Mirta KOS KOLOBARIC: At the moment, I am not reading anything except Erasmus project guidelines! When I do have time, I prefer reading English books to those in Croatian. I like all books by Cecelia Ahern, and the one that really moved me last summer was Please look after mum, by a Korean author, Shin Kyung-sook. Next on my reading list as soon as find the time are Emigdi’s books!
MÒNICA SUBIRATS SEBASTIÀ:  Morning everyone! Yes, I am reading a few books in English! It’s my passion! These are my books’ list: The edible woman by Margaret Atwood, One of the books in the Outlander collection, Drums of Autumn,  by Diana Gabaldon, and The Armour of light by Ken Follet. Enjoying all of them! What about you?
Emigdi Subirats: I am not reading any book in English at the moment, I am afraid. I daresay the best one I read is Things fall apart by Chinua Achebe, one of the greatest 20th century African novelists.

Our digital stories

About a hundred 16 and 17-year-old students from four high schools, belonging to three different countries, will be taking part in a literary e-twinning project called ‘Our digital stories‘.

Its  main aim  is to motivate students to engage in creative story-writing, reading, and peer-editing. Depending on the type of the stories, students will collaborate and create digital stories using pictures, music, their voices and various digital tools to create digital versions of the original stories. Needless to say, respecting copyright rules.
Two of these schools come from Catalonia: Institut Dertosa and Institut Roquetes, both of them in the Baix Ebre county council. As for the other two  schools: Ekonomsko-birotehnicka skola/The Secondary School of Economics and Business Administration, is a vocational school located in Slavonski Brod, in eastern Croatia on the very border of Bosnia; the second one is located in Balıkesir, in the west of Türkiye (Turkey) and it is a Science High School where students get prepared for the university exam.
Hopefully the project will be a success! Let’s write beautiful stories!