1 READING

The idea was first to study during the English class some short stories from TALES FROM THE EXPAT HAREM published by J Gökmen and A.Eaman and to meet the publisher in Istanbul to discuss the issues of the book with her. A chat was also held on this topic between the students from HEV school and Externat notre Dame and the publisher during the first year before the meeting.
The selected short stories were : HIJACKED and RESCUED BY VILLAGE INTELLIGENCE

click here to see the class activities on these stories:

Students' short essays on ' Rescued by village intelligence'

2 CREATIVE WRITING -TANDEM WORK

Secondly the students were given the task to write short stories based either on the main themes of the the two short stories (fear- prejudice- the other) or a photograph. The pages were first written by French students and continued by Turkish student and continued in turns so as to have ' nouvelles à quatre mains '. The results is 10 short stories including diaries plus a photoroman and a comic strip.

Guidelines

Click here to open the book of their short stories ( to be on the website in April )

3 PHOTOROMAN

In the art class students selected some passages of the short story RESCUED FROM VILLAGE INTELLIGENCE

They took a series of photographs illustrating some particular moments, feelings and attitudes . This was a collaborative activity realised during the visit of the Turkish delegation in February 2009.