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The Department of Language and Literature has carried out a very interesting literary meeting that tries to promote a taste for reading. With the main objective of promoting a positive attitude towards books, the visit to our center by this great novelist and poet has been of great educational value.
Alejandro, who has also been a teacher at our school, encouraged all the participating students to read and explained the “basic ingredients of books”.
Likewise, it brought Don Quixote closer to young people from a more playful perspective, addressing the importance and types of humor in Literature and more specifically in this, the first modern novel.
It turned out to be a very enriching visit in every way, especially because it broadened the vision that we usually have of the masterful work of Cervantes, so that we can enjoy it as it truly deserves. In the words of Pedregosa “Don Quixote is not a book for entering Literature, but rather for leaving it”.
In the two sessions that took place for the students of Primary, Secondary and Baccalaureate, he insisted on developing language skills, since "If there is something that differentiates us from animals, it is precisely our linguistic code, which awakens our imagination". Literature, in the words of this writer, combines imagination and language, transcends the everyday.
All the students who attended participated actively in this day in which there was time for poetry, to reflect on the creative process of reading and in which we learned to use language to express what is beyond. With very lively poetic games, he reviewed metrics, while we differentiated colloquial from literary language.
Extrapolating Literature to a more personal level, he advised our students to try to be themselves, because “There is nothing as attractive as authenticity and originality”.
We thank Alexander Stony his visit and his work to make Literature known to young people, offering the opportunity for them to discover for themselves the pleasure of reading and being brave. In a culture like ours, in which the prevailing value is success, you have to dare, because as Alejandro “If you don't fail, you don't learn. You don't have to be afraid of failure." Read more
The Arts Department has carried out various activities to commemorate the Day of the book, all of them have the common goal of promoting reading and fostering the creativity of students.
Poetry Contest Awards Ceremony.
To inaugurate this fourth day of our Cultural Week we begin with the long-awaited prize-giving ceremony corresponding to the Colegio Alborán Poetry Contest. It has been difficult to choose the winning poems, since their quantity and quality were very high.
The awardees have been:
First cycle of ESO:
- 1st Prize: Eva González Martín, for her poem “Sé tú”.
- 2nd Prize: Javier Guerrero Márquez, with his work "Los sentimientos".
- 3rd Prize: Cristina Muñoz Lovera, for her poem “El velero de tu corazón”.
finalists:
- Pilar Abril Fernández, for "Peace".
- Gabriel Salinas Teruel, for his poetry "Act".
Second cycle of ESO:
- 1st Prize: Elías Salinas Teruel, for "Being".
- 2nd Prize: Pablo Álvarez Serrano”, with his poetry “As old as life”.
- 3rd Prize: Fernando Ramírez Sánchez, for “Being without you”.
finalists:
- Miguel Ángel Cruz Aranda, for “My life”.
- Carmen González Alcántara, with her poetry "Love".
We congratulate the participants of the four Secondary courses, and especially the winners and finalists.
Visit of the writer Alejandro Pedregosa
The Department of Language and Literature has carried out for this great day a very interesting literary meeting that tries to promote a taste for reading.
With the main objective of promoting a positive attitude towards books, the visit to our center by this great novelist and poet has been of great educational value.
Video What is your favorite word?
The students of 1st and 2nd ESO have made a fun video about your favorite word from the entire Spanish lexicon, explaining the reasons for your choice.
D. Quixote of La Mancha podcast
To commemorate the 400th anniversary of the death of Cervantes, Secondary students have made use of new IPad applications to record podcast with selected fragments of Don Quixote.
The adventures of Don Quixote and Sancho
Some of the adventures that Don Quixote and Sancho went through have been revived in 5th and 6th grade. The students of the 1st year of Baccalaureate believed that an interesting way to introduce them to this illustrious character, so representative of our literature, would be to transform some of his adventures into a story.
Thus, they have discovered that Dulcinea had a slightly repellent breath as well as a bit of a mustache, the giants that were nothing more than windmills or ferocious armies turned out to be harmless flocks of sheep. These have been some of the different adventures with which they have been able to delight.
medieval dance
When the 1st year of Baccalaureate students came into contact with the medieval world, they became interested in the way of life of that time. But as young people who are enthusiastic, they preferred to investigate one of the ways they had to have fun. The result has been a mere representation of a medieval dance, set with the appropriate clothing.
It has been explained to the students of Primary and ESO, among other things, that medieval dance was a bit difficult to adapt to our time, since they did not use the current stave for music. In this way our schoolchildren have verified that the product of the effort and enthusiasm of their classmates has been a showy and entertaining medieval dance.
Theatrical performance "Ulysses and Polyphemus"
The approach to the Latin Language in 4th year of ESO is always closely linked to classical mythology or any theme of their culture, since they find it very attractive.
This year for the XXVII Cultural Week they have adapted the adventure that Odysseus and his warriors have with the Cyclops Polyphemus from the renowned book The Odyssey.
Primary and ESO schoolchildren have enjoyed the strategy devised by Ulises to escape from this fearsome mythological being. Pretending to be sheep, after having blinded the Cyclops, they managed to deceive him and again succeed in another of his feats.
The 4th ESO students, using cooperative learning, prepare news about school events. Here is an example of this: Read more
For yet another year, Colegio Alborán has participated in the Coca-Cola Young Talents Competition, Short Story Award, which this year reaches its 56th edition.
The selected students who represented our school using words as tools last Saturday, April 9, were Alba De la Torre Segato and Cristina Muñoz Lovera.
This Literary Contest is the one with the greatest participation in our country and with it we try to promote the interest of young people in writing and literature.
From a very original narrative stimulus, the students must compose their story, using their imagination, coherence of the text, grammatical correctness and especially the illusion that motivates them to participate as tools.
We wish you the best of luck!
Some photos below.
Here is an example of cooperative activity, in which a team of students from 4th of ESO offer us the possibility, through a newspaper article prepared by themselves on the matter Language and literature, to know what the use of this methodology means for them. You can also see some photos of the students working on the activity in class.
To mark the XX anniversary of Poetry "Poets of 27" Malaga City Council has organized a poetic meeting between schoolchildren on March 17.
The Alborán School joined this initiative, participating in the activity that took place in the Manuel Altolaguirre Library, In Malaga.
Our ESO students enjoyed the exhibition of María Victoria Atencia, the White Queen of our poetry, in an interesting act directed by Carmen Ramos, writer of Children's and Youth Literature, in which a talk was offered in order to make women visible that have been silenced. Authors of the stature of Concha Méndez, Ernestina Champourcí, Rosa Chacel, Mª Teresa León, Maruja Mallo, Josefina de la Torre…
We were able to hear poems by these authors from 27 and also our students recited original poems of their own creation.
Advertising videos made by the Artistic and Media Baccalaureate students during the 2015-16 school year Read more
"I am in love with words"
On March 8, the Department of Language and Literature of the Alborán School organized a Literary Meeting in order to encourage students to love reading.
On this occasion, the writer Patricia García-Rojo Cantón, recently awarded the Gran Ang ular Prize, visited our center and, highlighting the playful aspect of reading, invited the participants to have fun reading. She acknowledges that reading is "the most fun I have in my life."
Likewise, it offered the participants an opportunity to start writing and use their imagination, to “be the owners of the world, to have power and change reality”.
In this interesting visit, aimed at Secondary Education students, there was a time for questions and answers, time to clarify doubts about their books read in class and book signing. She even took time to visit the center's facilities.
In a warm and relaxed atmosphere, it was an enriching activity, in which our young students were receptive and especially participatory.
We are very grateful to Patricia for her visit, which served to bring Literature closer to young audiences, awakening in them an interest in books, as well as curiosity about language proficiency, our most important tool.
“Writing is a consequence of reading”
Colegio Alborán, aware of the importance of promoting reading, organizes literary meetings with writers through the Department of Language and Literature.
Therefore, Mr. Antonio Gómez Yebra, famous author of Children's and Youth Literature, visited our center to encourage our students to read.
He took time to bring them closer to Literature in general, rescued verses from Espronceda, evoked Miguel Hernández, explaining that the authors and their works live in our memory. He invited our students to look in the encyclopedias, to use the dictionary and to write, in a visit that combined poetry, mythology and traditional tales.
For our school it is always an honor to receive Mr. Antonio, Professor of the UMA, who stands out for his numerous works in prose and verse aimed at children and young people and who knows how to transmit the desire for books at each meeting. He always knows how to surprise all attendees, as each meeting is different and unique.
The students of 5th, 6th of Primary Education, 1st and 2nd of ESO showed a lot of interest in this walk through Literature and History at the same time that they enjoyed the questions, recitations and riddles that took place on March 4.