ACTIVITY IN MARCH 2011 SCHOOL NO 51, BUCHAREST, ROMANIA

-Improving reading -Forming opinions on the strength of ethic values and meanings of culture -Realizing a better self-knowledge, as well as a knowledge of the other one -Fostering the most important values of Friendship: AFFECTION,RESPECT,TOLERANCE,FAITHFULNESS, FORGIVENESS,TRUST,ESTEEM,ADMIRATION, COMPREHENSION,SOLIDARITY, etc. -Plastic phrasing of ideas and feelings

Activity developed with 7 and 8 grade students Teacher MANUELA IONESCU suggested new teaching techniques in approaching this theme ACTIVITIES Lecture of the poem “To make a bird’s portrait”( >) by Jacques Pervert Firstly paint a cage with the door open paint then something pretty something simple something beautiful something useful for the bird put then the canvas against a tree in a garden in a wood or in a forest hide behind the tree without saying a word without moving…

Sometimes the bird arrives soon but it can also need some years before it decides Don’t get discouraged wait wait if necessarily years the fastness or slowness of the bird coming has nothing to do with the success of the painting As it arrives if it does observe the most absolute silence wait until it comes into the cage and as it did close gently the door with the paintbrush and then erase one by one every bar taking care not to touch the feathers of the bird

Do now a portrait of the tree choosing the most beautiful of his branches for the bird paint also the green leaves and the freshness of the wind the particles of the sun the sound of the insects in the grass during the summer heat and then wait until the bird feels to sing If it doesn’t sing it is a very bad sign sign that the painting didn’t turn out well But if it sings instead, then it is a good sign sign that you can sign Then pull out a feather of the bird extremely gently and write your name in a corner of the canvas.

2.Comprehension of the poem Stages which must be covered: PAINT PUT (THE PAINTING) HIDE YOURSELF Poet’s advice Decoding symbols: THE CAGE the soul the heart THE BIRD the friend the lover who we are waiting for THE PAINTER the poet each of us

Conclusions Teenagers know: What’s the fundament of a friendship relation What they expect from a friend How to foster and protect the friendship What and how much they are able to do for a friend

I am ready to have a friend The friend I am waiting for Students had to draw the face of their friend and to find the qualities that make him/her a good friend.