Mes: octubre de 2023

Nou acte d’homenatge a Manuel Pérez Bonfill

Dilluns 19 de juny es complia el cinquè aniversari del traspàs de Manuel Pérez Bonfill (Tortosa, 1927 – 2018), el nostre professor de sempre i emblema del nostre centre. Xiquet de la guerra, va ser catedràtic de llengua i literatura castellanes durant més de 30 anys, fins a la seua jubilació al juny de 1991. La seua gran passió, però, era la llengua i la literatura catalanes.
Des del col·lectiu DiLlums al forn, amb la col·laboració de l’Institut Dertosa, de l’Ajuntament de Tortosa, del Campus extern de la URV i d’Òmnium Cultural, va organitzar-se un nou acte d’homenatge al carrer de Hemingway, un indret on convergeixen tota mena de fets culturals i literaris: els carrers Cervantes i Despuig, l’antic cinema Fèmina i el refugi antiaeri número 4.
L’acte va consistir amb la lectura de parts de La fira de sempre, el gran conte de la guerra i la postguerra a Tortosa. Posteriorment, es varen realitzar recitacions poètiques i lectures de narrativa ben representatives de l’autor. Una actuació d’alguns membres de la Tuna Folk, amb interpretacions ben lluïdes de dos cançons emblemàtiques del republicanisme: Ai Carmela i Bella Ciao, van donar el toc final a un homenatge molt sentit.
Quant a membres de l’institut hi van intervindre: el professor Emigdi Subirats, els exprofessors Manel Ollé, Jordi Mulet i Pep Pinyol; el professor en excedència i alcalde de Tortosa Jordi Jordan; i els alumnes Pablo Moreno, Jordi Vidiella i Gemma Llorca. També hi era present la directora del centre, Francina Prades.

Xerrada dels músics del grup Obscens per al grup de 1r de batxillerat G

L’alumnat del 1r de batxillerat G, l’escènic, va rebre la visita de tres membres del grup de rock ebrenc Obscens, el passat dilluns 2 d’octubre. Els músics Ernest Redó, Adolfo Aixalà i Jordi Mendoza els van fer cinc cèntims de llur trajectòria musical en conjunts molt diversos i estils musicals ben heterogenis al llarg dels anys, des de música clàssica a rock & roll. Van resultar molt didàctiques i interessants les seues explicacions sobre el seu grup actual, i també la funció de cada músic com a guitarrista, teclista, baixista o cantant. Justament el proper 27 d’octubre presenten el seu nou disc Sota un cel sord al Casal tortosí.
Posteriorment, alguns dels alumnes van fer-los partícips de les seues inquietuds musicals o dansaires. També van poder gaudir d’una emotiva demostració de ball per part de l’alumne Isaac Artells, així com al final de classe van escoltar un parell de cançons per part dels músics.

Learning Situation ‘Art for life foundation’

Since 1988, Art for Life https://artforlife.org/ has focused on creating programmes that help kids who are undergoing physical, emotional or mental crisis to use art as a way of helping them work through and with their illness. They empower kids from an early age through their teens to embrace art as a way of expressing how they feel during what is a very scary and difficult time for them. All their programmes focus on different aspects of the healing process. From their award-winning ART WHILE YOU WAIT PROGRAMME in Emergency rooms to Oncology, Cardiology, Pallative Care and children’s Hospice programmes that use art as a way of healing families who have lost a child. Art for life is there. Somewhere every day through their network of programmes nationwide they are helping kids and their families to use art as a form of self-expression and in doing so they find a way of moving through their illness into wellness.
Our students (in Group F) in the second year of High School ‘Batxillerat’ (Catalan A-levels) have been carrying out a large number of activities related to a Learning Situation called ‘Art for life foundation’.
We asked them a question. What do you reckon of their work? What does it imply for our society?
This learning scenario intends to develop SDG 4 (Quality Education) of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Students will need to determine whether this goal can be reached given the current approach of pupils to art throughout the world. To do this they will need to find information on the way art has been taught at schools (since the mid 20th century up to the beginning of the 21st century, particularly in Europe), and develop critical thinking to see if things have changed, remain the same or have worsened, as well as to infer what should be done.
The development of this LS includes two initial activities (a brainstorming and a discussion), two development activities (with listening, speaking and reading comprehension), one consolidation activity (a book club) and two implementation activities (a booktuber video and a
discussion essay), one of which is used for summative assessment. This will also allow them to work on narrative essays, connectors, past tenses and -ed & -ing adjectives.

CHALLENGE: During lockdown (in spring 2020) both art and music took a major role as far as people’s (all ages) entertainment at home was concerned. Nowadays most hospitalised children have access to all kinds of online resources related to artistic development as well. How can we all help to expand art among sick children, as much in hospital as at home?
They have created an online magazine with all the stories they have written about the relationship between art and healing kids’ illnesses, which we are going to display on our school website.