Diary of the activities


"Nineteen eighty-four" Diary

Diary of the classes looking for the world in this book



 

May 31, 2005: the "Nineteen Eighty-four"'s Website is online!

 

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 May, 2005: the last collaborative phase is taking more time... anyway the Website is almost ready. All the students' papers will be insertes as soon a they are ready.

 

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April - May, 2005: the students are completing their individual work (deadline: 15 May). In the last two weeks of May they will merge their work and create the collaborative writings. In the meantime some students are creating the layout of the book's Website.

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February/March, 2005: the "Ninetenn Eighty-four" tandem (Italy and China) has started the collaborative work on the book (chapters and relevant topics). There are 16 groups working (mostly small groups of three). Now the students are using their personal email addresses to plan and carry out their common written work. The deadline of this phase is the second decade of May as both classes will have a lot of ...holidays in this period. Here are the groups:

1)The world of “Nineteen eighty-four”
Simone A.

2) The society of the future described by George Orwell: utopia vs distopia
Matteo, Zhang Yilun, and Hu Jian

3)The author and his time
Damiano, Qian Shuo, and Yu Lan

4)The characters of “Nineteen eighty-four”
Luigi, Song Danwen, and Bai Chao

5)Part 1 – Chapters 1 and 2
Iacopo, Liu Chang, and Zhu Que

6)Part 1 – Chapters 3 and 4
Edoardo, Dong Xiaonan, and Zhang Ran

7)Part 1 – Chapters 5 and 6
Marco, Tang Che, and Xia Fan

8)Part 1 – Chapters 7 and 8
Lorenzo

9)Part 2 – Chapters 1 and 2
Pierpaolo, Qian Shuo, Yu Lan

10)Part 2 – Chapters 3 and 4
Alessandro, Rita, Pang Ruosha, and Zhou Yuanhang

11)Part 2 – Chapters 5 and 6
Giuseppe, Li Yang, and Qi Xin

12)Part 2 – Chapters 7 and 8
Simone M., Guan Meiqing and Li Ruiqi

13)Part 2 – Chapter 9 (a long one)
Luca M.

14)Part 3 – Chapters 1 and 2
Mirko and Michela

15)Part 3 – Chapters 3 and 4
Valerio

16)Part 3 – Chapters 5 and 6
Pietro
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20 December 2004: Today the two classes have had their first chat session : a free chat about....everything! Many students have joined the chat, especially from China as most of the Italian students were playing a school football match before their Christmas holidays.

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13 December 2004: Next Monday there will be a chat session (10:00 a.m. in Italy, 5:00 p.m. in Bejing). The two classes have established that at the end of January they will complete the first part of the book (8 chapters).

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20 November 2004: The "Forum Cafe" area is full of personal messages from Italy, China and Japan. The students have read the first chapter of the book and are writing their comments on it. The Chinese students have sent their photo.

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22 October 2004: The students of the two classes are reading the first chapter of the book. On their forum there are the first presentation messages.All the students have started reading the first chapter of the book. A new discussion area has been opened on the forum where the students can send their first impressions on what they are reading.

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15 October 2004: Mrs. Wang Hong and her students have answered. They will be the partners of the Italian class. Next week they will start exchanging the first presentation messages on their "personal" forum area.

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September 2004: The students of the class V A Liceo Scientifico Tecnologico of Colleferro (Roma) write their first message on the general forum of the project. They have chosen this book and are searching for partners.