May 31, 2005: The "Heart of Darkness" Website is online!

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May, 2005: The final collaborative step is over and the Website is developing in the hands of students and teachers..... The Finnish teacher has written on the forum they are sorry as the have not taken part in the last phase of the project, but they are facing some big problems concerning their school, they mean the building where they work and study everyday. Don't worry friends, your collaboration has been precious in all the other steps of the activity. Next year everything will be better.

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April, 2005: The students are completing the "merging" of their individual work. This step (creating collaborative writings on the book) has taken more time, but is is going to finish. Some students are creating the layout of the Website.

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February, 2005: The reading phase is over and now the "Heart of Darkness" group (Italy, Austria, Finland) have started the pair work on some themes from the book. Each student has communicated his/her favourite theme and the pairs have been formed. Now they are using their personal email addresses to plan and carry out their collaborative written work. The deadline of this phase is the second week of April.

These are the themes and the students who will develop them:

1) The importance of ivory:
Ines, Alessio, Luca

2) Religious aspects in the story:
Anna, Jari

3) Comparing the book and the film "Apocalypse Now":
Pair 1
Benjamin, Juho
Pair 2
Christoph, Giacomo
Pair 3
Corina, Francesco

4) Conrad’s life and the consequences for the book:
Mario, Francesco

5) The meanings of darkness:
Stephanie, Giovanni

6) The development of Marlow’s awareness of Kurtz:
Franz, Leonardo, Alice Corsi

7) Blacks in the book and the blacks today:
Pair 1
Nora, Marco, Ramona
Pair 2
Lisa, Andrea, Lorenzo
Pair 3
Bianca, Umberto

8) Slavery and imperialism/ colonization in Heart of Darkness:
Reinhard, Anna , Fabrizio

9) Nietzsche`s philosophy and Heart of Darkness:
Melanie, Riccardo

10) The descripton of the trip (A comparison of Conrad’s and Marlow’s trip):
Florian, Simone

11) Depiction of Africa in Heart of Darkness:
Benjamin, Francesco

12) Section 1 / Section 2 / Section 3 :
(characters, settings, summary, personal comments and relevant quotations)
Esmee, Marco, Martina

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December 2004: The Austrian students have arrived at "the inner station" and the Italian students are going to arrive there!

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November 2004: in the forum there are a lot of messages from the students both in the "cafe" area (presentation messages) and in the area of the first impressions about the novel. The Finnish teachers have suggested some interesting issues to develop while and after reading: 1 Colonialization in general 2. Nietzsche`s philosophy 3 The descripton of the trip 4 Comparing the film "Apocalypse Now" and the novel .

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October 2004: Two classes have joined the Italian students, one is from Bundesgymnasium of Rein, Austria (class 7A) and one is from Cygnaeus Upper Secondary school of Jyväskylä, Finland . The first presentation messages from the Italian and the Austrian students are already on their forum. The first messages from Finland are coming. All the students have started reading the first section 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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September 2004: The students of the class IV A Liceo Scientifico Tecnologico, ITIS "S. Cannizzaro" of Colleferro (Rome) write their first message on the general forum of the project. They have chosen this book and are searching for partners.