Summary of Book Day activities. 2014-15.

The Cultural Week, whose objective is to get culture out of the classroom, has become a true hallmark of our School. During these days, many and varied activities are carried out that enrich the students and complete their training.

Specifically, the Department of Letters has carried out various activities on Book Day whose purpose is to promote reading and foster the creativity of students.

Knowledge is not only in the classroom, but we know that education and culture are also acquired and manifested in multiple ways, that is why we have carried out the following activities on this day:

Visit of the writer Juan Antonio Pérez-Foncea

The Alborán school, through the Department of Language and Literature, has developed a very interesting literary meeting during the Cultural Week that tries to promote a taste for reading.

With the main objective of promoting a positive attitude towards books, this activity to encourage reading was of great educational value. Pérez-Foncea encouraged the young people to read, write and be critical people, so his visit turned out to be very enriching.

He transmitted to us the content of each of his books that make up the Iván de Aldénuri saga, which are to the delight of young people and adults.

In his works, very well developed in the style of adventure classics, the themes of friendship, the ethical dilemma and the recreation of distant times, with Celtic reminiscences, are important.
All the attending students participated actively, in a day in which there was time to clarify doubts, question and answer time, as well as a book signing by the writer Juan Antonio Pérez Foncea, author of one of the books read in the adventure genre in class.

We thank Juan Antonio for his visit and his work in making literature known to young people, offering them the opportunity to discover for themselves the pleasure of reading.

Representation of the play "The country with no name"

The students of 2nd ESO represented the play "The disappearance of books" for their classmates in Primary and Secondary Education.

With this stupendous dramatization we verify that reading opens the door of knowledge, sensitivity and fantasy. A magnificent staging. Congratulations guys.

Representation of the play "The Judgment of Paris"

The Latin and Greek students of High School have represented a classic myth for Primary and Secondary courses. It is about the "Judgment of Paris", where the origin of the conflict between the Greeks and Trojans is explained and that Homer left us brilliantly immortalized in The Iliad.
It was a very attractive activity in which actors and spectators enjoyed a lot, in addition to introducing us more to the knowledge of the classical world.

Latin expressions and myths

On the other hand, to participate in the day of the book, the students of 1st Baccalaureate, through the Department of Letters, have made posters with Latin expressions. They have been exhibited in the Library and Aula Tic so that everyone can learn them, since they are of interest and worth remembering.

The proverbs of Don Quixote and Sancho

In 1st year of Baccalaureate this term they are having a deeper contact with the famous work Don Quixote de la Mancha. After having seen a theatrical performance of this work, they have felt especially interested by the large number of proverbs used by the two protagonists. For this they have investigated and have left them embodied in posters that have served as decoration for the library and thus commemorate the day of letters.

Sara Rome Conference

Sara Rodríguez, PhD in Audiovisual Communication and teacher of Language and Literature and Spanish for foreigners, visited our center to offer a very interesting talk on Youth Literature, related to the new lobbies or pressure groups that readers represent.

He spoke to the entire Secondary School about the very active role that readers have thanks to new technologies. A topic as interesting as it is current, which caught the attention of young people who, through blogs, are creating a whole trend of opinion that editors and writers take very seriously.

He encouraged them to share literary experiences and to write, while offering all of us advice on being good literary critics, emphasizing the value of sincerity, honesty, and constructive criticism.

There was also time to reflect on the creative process of reading, since according to Sara "all literature is worth analyzing and evaluating."