Greece’s Carnival season, known as “Apokries,” is a period of ten weeks but it culminates on the weekend before “Clean Monday,” (Ash Monday).
Task
Imagine that you are working for a tourist agency and want to make a brochure for a trip that you organise in Greece during this weekend.
The secret ingredients you have to include are:
-emphasise to it as a forbidden festival full of loud music, masqueraders and colourful costumes;
-associate it with the Orthodox traditions
-develop its roots in ancient times
-search for the tastes of Clean Monday
Process
Step one – Apokries as a forbidden festival
Students will use Prezi or Powerpoint, in teams of 3 persons, in order to present the most popular carnival festivals in Greece, giving some extra info. They will take their info from the URLs:
http://www.visitgreece.gr/en/carnivalingreece/carnival_in_greece
https://familyexperiencesblog.com/greek-carnival-traditions-where/#Carnival_celebrations
At the end each team will present their work.
Step two -Apokries as Orthodox tradition
Nowadays the Greek carnival is divided in 3 weeks, all preparing for the fasting period, called “Triodio” Students have to be divided in 3 teams. Each team has to find costumes and tradition for each week.
Try to include the answers in the following questions:
- How is this week called?
- With whom is this week associated?
- Which are the customs of this week?
Make a small audiovisual presentation by using Screencast-o-Matic.
You can find some extra info in the following links:
http://www.ilearngreek.com/greek_traditions/apokries.asp
https://neoskosmos.com/en/28610/apokries-carnival-through-the-ages/
https://familygoesout.com/greek-carnival-traditions-this-is-how-it-is-celebrated/
Step three – Apokries as the worship of Dionysos
Many traditions around Greece have their roots in ancient times. Try to develop Apokries’ roots in ancient times….How it is associated with the God of wine and feast? Use the above links and write an group essay of 150 words on this topic.
Step Four – Apokries as a gastronomy trip
Students have to search for the tastes of Tsiknopebti and Clean Monday and to present them. Take a look at the URL https://www.xpatathens.com/living-in-athens/survival-guide/greek-traditions/item/1278-the-tradition-of-tsiknopempti you will find some useful info for Tsiknopebti.
Step five- Brochure time
You are ready to make your brochure!! All the brochures will be shared with students of other classes. Maybe some will be kept to the library of the school.
Evaluation
This is how your work will be evaluated.
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Beginning 1 |
Developing 2 |
Qualified 3 |
Exemplary 5 |
Score /20
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Teamwork |
There is one person doing all the work, and the team is NOT working together. |
The team is working individually on their own role, and using limited talked with others in a group |
The team is working together, but not using the inflammation to connect with one another. |
The whole team is working together, helping each other out, and connecting information with one another. |
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Research / Understanding
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Don’t use sources given & information is not factual. Student lacked knowledge |
Use sources were given. Students understood information but couldn’t apply it to their projects |
Use sources are given, and students understood information but lacked creativity and informational facts |
Use sources, get all information asked and goes beyond to get and applied extra information to give to their classmates a better idea on the subject |
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Presentations |
No creativity to their presentation, such a little information that classmates aren’t able to understand |
Students created a presentation with only text and nothing else. |
Students were able to create a good presentation. |
Great creativity, students are able to understand |
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Final project (Brochure) |
No final project |
The final project is lacking key components. |
Final project contains all key components |
Final project contains all key components and some extra information so it is complete and more useful to anyone interested in its theme. |
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Conclusion
The web quest is designed using investigation learning method in order to develop the critical thinking skills in children and their designing skills.
I hope you all had fun! If you liked what you have learnt, come and visit Greece next Carnival time!!
Credits
This WebQuest was created by a team of teachers, within the co-funded Erasmus plus KA2 partnership “English for hospitality” (EN4HOSTS), project number: 2017-1-RO01-KA201-037159, KA2 – Cooperation for Innovation and the Exchange of Good Practices, KA201 – Strategic Partnerships for school education
The European Commission support for the production of this publication does not constitute an endorsement of the contents which reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.