Travels, Literature and Flavors with Camões

As part of the celebrations of the 500th anniversary of Camões' birth and in the application of a Curricular Articulation Domain (DAC) between the subjects of Portuguese, History A and Philosophy with the classes 10ºC, 10ºD1 and D2, 10ºE and 10ºF, the following activities were developed:

– Production of a video shown on the TV in the atrium of Block B of the school headquarters of the school cluster, featuring interviews with characters, portrayed by the students, about the world of Camões (activity developed in the Portuguese classes of the 10th grade E and 10th grade F);

– Viewing and/or listening to the album The Pepper Auto, by Rui Veloso; from a PowerPoint presentation with the title The Taste of the Journey – The Adventure of Plants in the Portuguese Expansion and documentaries about Brazil, India, China and Japan, in close relation to the work The Lusiads (activity developed in History A classes with the 10ºC and 10ºD2 classes);

– Exhibition in the atrium of Block B, themed around Travels, Literature and Flavors…with Camões, with works on Camões' lyric poetry (This activity, developed in Portuguese and History A classes for the 10th grade C and 10th grade D1 and D2, incorporated African, Asian, and American products and objects, complemented by maps and contemporary texts from the expansionist period of the reigns of King John II, King Manuel I, and King John III, among others.;

– Visit to the Lar da Misericórdia de Montemor-o-Velho (activity developed within the scope of the Philosophy subject with the 10th D1 and D2 classes), for the purpose of reciting poetry by Camões and António Gedeão to the users of that institution, an activity later replicated at the main school, in the Principal's office and School Library.

In light of the proposed activities and the involvement shown by the students in the aforementioned classes, the teachers make a positive assessment of them, thanking not only the effective collaboration and receptiveness of the parents/guardians, the Board of Directors of the Misericórdia of Montemor-o-Velho, the teacher responsible for the school library and other teachers, but, above all, highlighting the committed and proactive way in which the students carried out all the activities, thus allowing the achievement of goals set out in the Group's Educational Project.

The Teachers:

Conceição Fonseca, Fernanda Gil Silva, Elizabeth Ferreira and Sónia Rodrigues