History lessons - High School CLIL Activity
Italy
Description:
The CLIL activity has been conducted in the 5th year of the Scientific Lyceum, history course. The work has been developed focusing in the History Subject: The 1920s and the 1930s in the USA (“Roaring Twenties, 1929 crisis, Great Depression, F.D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, J.M. Keynes economic theory). It was divided into the following topics:
• To know the main aspects of the 1920’s- 1930s in the United States, by a social, political, economic viewpoint:The Roaring Twenties (self-made man myth, American Dream), the 1929 crisis, the Great Depression, Roosevelt’s New Deal, Keynes’ economic thought
• To use historical sources: reading and listening the 1933 inaugural address by F. D. Roosevelt: Roosevelt and the New Deal
• To feel the mood of the Roaring Twenties through cinema: Social conditions, women’s emancipation, jazz age, prohibition, organized crime
• To present, compare and discuss different aspects of America about Italian immigrants through three different stories: Sacco and Vanzetti, Al Capone and Fiorello La Guardia: Al Capone, Sacco and Vanzetti, Fiorello La Guardia stories
• To present, compare and discuss different sides of America about alcohol consumption: prohibition/speakeasies:
• To present, compare and discuss different sides of America about African-American population-the spread of Ku Klux Klan-the Harlem Renaissance.
• To present, compare and discuss different aspects of America about women‘s emancipation: Flappers-Eleanor Roosevelt
• To present different artistic expressions of the 1920’s 1930’s: pictures, music, cinema: Charlie Chaplin/Oliver Hardy and Stan Lauren’s Films; Dorothea Lange’s Photography and Edward Hoppers’ paintings; George Gershwin and Duke Ellington’s music.
• To debate about different economic policies: liberalist and Keynesian
• To improve pronunciations skills singing songs of (or on) the 1920s-1930s: Songs of the 1920s-1930s (or on 1920s-1930s): Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off; I’m Through With Love; Runnin’ Wild; I Wanna Be Loved By You; It Don’t Mean A Thing; Dream A Little Dream Of Me; Sweet Georgia Brown; Summertime; Like A Rolling Stone; Here’s to you
• To know the main aspects of the 1920’s- 1930s in the United States, by a social, political, economic viewpoint:The Roaring Twenties (self-made man myth, American Dream), the 1929 crisis, the Great Depression, Roosevelt’s New Deal, Keynes’ economic thought
• To use historical sources: reading and listening the 1933 inaugural address by F. D. Roosevelt: Roosevelt and the New Deal
• To feel the mood of the Roaring Twenties through cinema: Social conditions, women’s emancipation, jazz age, prohibition, organized crime
• To present, compare and discuss different aspects of America about Italian immigrants through three different stories: Sacco and Vanzetti, Al Capone and Fiorello La Guardia: Al Capone, Sacco and Vanzetti, Fiorello La Guardia stories
• To present, compare and discuss different sides of America about alcohol consumption: prohibition/speakeasies:
• To present, compare and discuss different sides of America about African-American population-the spread of Ku Klux Klan-the Harlem Renaissance.
• To present, compare and discuss different aspects of America about women‘s emancipation: Flappers-Eleanor Roosevelt
• To present different artistic expressions of the 1920’s 1930’s: pictures, music, cinema: Charlie Chaplin/Oliver Hardy and Stan Lauren’s Films; Dorothea Lange’s Photography and Edward Hoppers’ paintings; George Gershwin and Duke Ellington’s music.
• To debate about different economic policies: liberalist and Keynesian
• To improve pronunciations skills singing songs of (or on) the 1920s-1930s: Songs of the 1920s-1930s (or on 1920s-1930s): Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off; I’m Through With Love; Runnin’ Wild; I Wanna Be Loved By You; It Don’t Mean A Thing; Dream A Little Dream Of Me; Sweet Georgia Brown; Summertime; Like A Rolling Stone; Here’s to you
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