Project: Create books which include poems, drawings and personal stories of the group members (maybe 4 pages each). Take pictures of each participant and place it above 2 line biographies about the authors. Bind the books with book covers made out of cardboard boxes. Have the participants paint their own book covers.
Objective: to encourage personal and creative expression of aging people. To create a series documenting their voices. To promote environmental and mental/emotional health.
Benefits: The people in the group receive an opportunity to tell their personal histories to people who are interested. They can create artwork. The people who do not read or write can give dictation or draw. The participants can see themselves as published authors which will inspire confidence which is integral to emotional health. The project encourages environmental health by utilizing recycled materials.
Who: the members of the Namaskar groups in Restinga and Belém Novo
What: art books about life, health and aging and happiness
Where: Restinga and Belém Novo
When: 3/11, 13/11; 18/11, 20/11; 24/11, 26/11
Methodology:
This is a three part project.
(Week 1)
1st step: We can provide the participants with templates for an "I Am" poem, a "Letter to my Body" text, and a "Why My Life Matters" prompt and a 2 sentence biography.
(Week 2)
2nd step: We can take pictures of each participant individually, and have them paint the cardboard for their book covers with original designs.
3rd step: I will type all of the text and print it at UFRGS. I can staple all of the books together.
(Week 3)
4th Step: The participants can glue their fotos to the book covers above their biographies. Prof. Dra. Jacqueline has asked to speak with the women about their project when they're finished. Then they can take their books home, and UFRGS can publish an anthology of their work. I can write a preface.
3 comments:
looks good to me, but I dunno nuthin bout these things. I think the last time I tutored English was at an ESL writing center for adults near Loyola, run by a Loyola professor. They booted me angrily because I made some real snarky comments on the form they made us fill out after each session. The thing was, my tutee already read and wrote English better than many native English speakers. She had actually been an English teacher in Poland! I tried to start reading more advanced texts with her, but all she wanted to do was talk because she wanted to improve her conversational English. She wanted to be fluent. I think technically she already was, but anyway. What she wanted made sense, and I wanted to help her get it. She was extremely sweet. But the form asked questions like, "What parts of speech did you work on today?" (Are there "parts of speech"?) I tried to tell them they either needed to either send her on her way to make room for someone who needed more basic help, or pair me with someone else, or stop asking me these stupid questions. I believe I tried to send this message nicely first, but nothing happened, then I used what I thought was a funny/frustrated tone which apparently just came across as snarky/rude/direspectful, so when I came in the next week they just sent me home right away. They didn't even let me say goodbye to my sweet little Polish flower! So, like I said, I don't know anything about beating the boss levels of this game. But you seem to be doing alright, so I'm sure it will be fine.
you lookin' mean girl.
http://www.goldfishunderwater.com/drawings/images/drawing_5.html
I know! I look really mean in that drawing, but in the picture not so much.
I didn't really like tutoring at the LCLC. My faculty advisor, Dr. Franzen, was the director of that project for a while.
It sounds like your student could have benefitted from studying at Truman.
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