Diversity in Art

DIVERSITY IN ART/ DIVERSITY IN LIFE

By Eleni Xanthakou for the 2nd Protypo Peiramatiko Gymnasio Athinas

Task 1: Watch the first movie trailer. Answer the questions.

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What is the movie title?

How is diversity expressed through the movie?

What do you know about the plot?

Task 2: Watch the second movie trailer.

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Fill in the missing words in the song lyrics Discuss the title, the diversity issue and the plot of the movie.

Song lyrics Tale as ---------- as time True as it can be Barely ---------- friends Then somebody bends Unexpectedly Just a ------------- change Small, to ------------- the least Both a little scared Neither ------------ prepared Beauty and the Beast Ever ----------- the same Ever a surprise Ever as before Ever just as sure As the ---------- will rise

Tale as ----------- as time Tune as old as song Bitter ------------- and strange Finding you can change Learning you -------------wrong Certain as the -----------Rising in the ------------Tale as old as ---------------Song as old as ---------------Beauty and the beast.

Beauty and the Beast Tale as old as time True as it can be Barely even friends Then somebody bends Unexpectedly

Tale as old as time Tune as old as song Bittersweet and strange Finding you can change Learning you were wrong

Just a little change Small, to say the least Both a little scared Neither one prepared Beauty and the Beast

Certain as the sun Rising in the east Tale as old as time Song as old as rhyme Beauty and the beast.

Ever just the same Ever a surprise Ever as before Ever just as sure As the sun will rise

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Task 3: Watch the third movie trailer. a. Discuss the title, the diversity issue and the movie plot. b.Fill in the movie information with the words given

Movie info task boy, son, housewife, scissors, mansion, salon, inventor, skills, daughter, hands An elderly woman describes to her granddaughter where snow comes from, by telling her the story of a young man named Edward, who has (1) ------ for hands, the creation of a(n) (2) ------ . The inventor's final result was a humanlike young (3) ------ who had everything except for (4) ------ , but the inventor had a heart attack and died while in the act of giving a pair of real hands to Edward, leaving him "unfinished" forever.

Many years after Edward was created, local saleswoman Peg Boggs visits the (5) ----- on the hill where Edward lives. There, she finds Edward alone, and decides to take him to her home. Edward becomes friends with Peg's young (6) ------ Kevin and her husband Bill. He later falls in love with the Boggs' teenage (7) ------, Kim. Peg's neighbors are impressed by Edward's adept hedge-trimming and hair-cutting (8) ------ (both of which he does with his scissor-hands), but two of the townspeople, a religious fanatic named Esmeralda and Kim's boyfriend, Jim, immediately dislike him. Joyce, a (9) ------ in the neighborhood, suggests that Edward open a hair-cutting (10) ------ with her…

mansion=big house, manor adept= expert, skilled hedge= row of bushes trim=cut, reduce, lower

Edward Scissorhands

boy, son, housewife, scissors, mansion, salon, inventor, skills, daughter, hands An elderly woman describes to her granddaughter where snow comes from, by telling her the story of a young man named Edward, who has (1) scissors for hands, the creation of a(n) (2) inventor . The inventor's final result was a humanlike young (3) boy who had everything except for (4) hands , but the inventor had a heart attack and died while in the act of giving a pair of real hands to Edward, leaving him "unfinished" forever.

Many years after Edward was created, local saleswoman Peg Boggs visits the (5) mansion on the hill where Edward lives. There, she finds Edward alone, and decides to take him to her home. Edward becomes friends with Peg's young (6) son Kevin and her husband Bill. He later falls in love with the Boggs' teenage (7) daughter, Kim. Peg's neighbors are impressed by Edward's adept hedge-trimming and hair-cutting (8) skills (both of which he does with his scissor-hands), but two of the townspeople, a religious fanatic named Esmeralda and Kim's boyfriend, Jim, immediately dislike him. Joyce, a (9) housewife in the neighborhood, suggests that Edward open a hair-cutting (10) salon with her…

Task 4: Watch the fourth movie trailer.

Discuss what the movie is about and how diversity is approached in the movie. Â

Eat Pray Love

Task 5: Read the book blurb and check your answers.

‘A WONDERFUL BOOK, BRILLIANT AND PERSONAL, RICH IN SPIRITUAL INSIGHT” ANNE LAMOTT In her early thirties, Elizabeth Gilbert had everything a modern American woman was supposed to want- husband, country home successful career – but instead of feeling happy and fulfilled, she felt consumed by panic and confusion. This wise and rapturous book is the story of how she left behind all these outward marks of success, and of what she found in their place. Following a divorce and a crushing depression, Gilbert set out to examine three different aspects of her nature, set against the backdrop of three different cultures: pleasure in Italy, devotion in India, and on the Indonesian island of Bali, a balance between worldly enjoyment and divine transcendence. fulfill = complete, satisfy feel consumed by panic and confusion = feel panicked and confused rapturous = delighted, blissful outward = external backdrop = background divine transcendence = existing above and apart from the material world

Task 6: Focus on chapter 82 of the book where Liz is in Bali. Work in groups.

Tell the class what your extract is about Reconstruct the chapter by putting the extracts in the correct order based on their content.

a. b. c. d. e. f.

Chapter 82 (p.324-325)

Chapter 82 (p.326-327)

Task 8: Discuss in what aspect(s) the two women involved were different and how they managed to come closer and establish rapport.

Task 9: Translate your part in groups. Create a good Greek text that could be part of a Greek novel. Â

All different, all the same Eleni Xanthakou

Thank you