eTwinning project „12 Months Photostory“ Schools:
Ekonomsko-birotehnička škola, Slavonski Brod, Croatia - Marija Deanković - Mirta Kos Kolobarić Edirne Süleyman Demirel Science High School, Edirne, Turkey - Dilek Erdağ Bek Şehit Sadık Kozak Anatolian High School, Banaz, Turkey - Sinan Çeliker
June 2016 - June 2017
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About project Each month participants will take photographs of their surroundings and write texts (essays, poems, etc.) in English, based on the given topic/quotes. Throughout 12 months and 12 topics Photostory will be completed by each participating school. At the end of the project all photographs and texts will be assembled in an e-book which will be published on participants’ school websites. The project aims to encourage students to express themselves creatively, by watching their surroundings in a new, fresh way and to reflect on a given topic through literary expression. Goals Encourage students to develop their creativity and express themselves literary and visually. To motivate students to observe their surroundings/homeland in a new way and to record through photography their observations, and to express their inner world, thoughts and reflections on given topic in a literary form. To develop an e-book containing a photo story that will present collected photographs and texts of all participating schools and thus provide an overview of work, ways of thinking and outlook on life of peers from different European countries. Expected results Students have expressed themselves creatively, literary and visually. Students are motivated to work, to reflect on a particular topic and express their views and thoughts. An e-book is created, containing students' work.
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JANUARY “Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.” Anne Frank
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Ekonomsko-birotehnička škola, Slavonski Brod, Croatia
Ekonomsko-birotehnička škola
No matter how bad the things get or how bad the thing that happened to us is, we have to do our best to be happy and thankful for what we have. Mislav Marković, 2.e
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Edirne Süleyman Demirel Science High School, Edirne, Turkey
Edirne Süleyman Demirel Science High School-by Oytun Sevil
Sometimes I think I can not be happy. All the bad things are around me and I have got no one beside me. Sometimes I guess I take all bad decisions and I think my life will be unlivable all the time. Also sometimes I think everyone hates me. Finally I see the truth. I know somebody loves me so much. Some flowers bloom for me. Some childern smile at me. And I stop thinking about people who make me sad or whatever I don’t like. Suddenly I start thinking about beautiful things in my life. It makes me hopeful.Because if you think there’s no hope you prove that there’s no hope. Everytime we should be hopeful. We can do anything we want. A good song says that ‘you can’t always get what you want’ but sometimes you can get what you want. I think life is all about emotions. If I’m not sad, how can I know the meaning of happiness? If someone hates me, I appreciate the value of the person who loves me. I am so glad about my emotions and also all bad things in my life. Because if I didn’t experience them, I could never understand all the beauty still left around me. Almira Şevval Erdeniz
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Şehit Sadık Kozak Anatolian High School, Banaz, Turkey
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FEBRUARY “You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.” John Lennon
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Ekonomsko-birotehnička škola, Slavonski Brod, Croatia
Ivona Olanović, 2.e People must help each other because in that way we become stronger and better. You must let other people in your life because you can’t do everything on your own. David Barić, 2.e We have to be the change that we want in the world and follow our dreams even if they seem impossible. Lana Duran, 2.e
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Edirne Süleyman Demirel Science High School, Edirne, Turkey
Edirne Süleyman Demirel Science High School-by Oytun Sevil
I'm waiting with patience in the night's cold For the dreams that I outstretch but couldn't hold The real issue is I'm living happily with that but Maybe you still think I'm a dreamer. You have a chance to choose your dreams to be happy Instead of a dreamless and purposeless life that seems crappy For having the things that excite me Maybe you still think I'm a dreamer. Elif İkra Çimen
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MARCH “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead Walk beside me… just be my friend” Albert Camus
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Ekonomsko-birotehnička škola, Slavonski Brod, Croatia
Laura Hercog, 2.e
Friendship is like a highway. You can drive through it forever or only one day It is not hard to be a good friend just be honest and there will be no end. Katarina Sliško, 2.e
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Edirne Süleyman Demirel Science High School, Edirne, Turkey
Edirne Süleyman Demirel Science High School-by Oytun Sevil Oh Balthazar, I always say “your stubbornness gets you into trouble.” You are selective.You will be alone. Maybe you love this little world but don’t forget you have only time in your hands. If you keep moving like this, everything will run off in a sandglass. Do you think you can be friend with time? I’m sorry but you can’t. Time is more selective than you are. It is testing you with your life. If you don’t care it, if you leave it behind you, it will get angry to you and run away from you faster. If you connect with it so much, it loves you as much as it can and never leaves you. It slows you. If you escape from time, ıt will stop and cry. Time is like a death tree.You can’t play with it. Oytun Sevil
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APRIL „The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” Confucius
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Ekonomsko-birotehnička škola, Slavonski Brod, Croatia
Ekonomsko-birotehnička škola „You can't“, they said. Well, I bet that we're all so tired of these two words. But, you know what? These are just words, and you know what else? They don't mean anything. The key to success is to dream big and work hard. All you have to do is to start from the bottom. It might be scary at first, but don't let your fears kick you down because they're often just an illusion. Yes, it will take time…a lot of time. And be prepared for everything, but don't you dare skip the steps. Imagine, you have stairs, a lot of them. It's faster to skip a few of them, but imagine that you are going to fall into the hole because the stairs are going to break. And suddenly, you will realize it's over. You gave up, but you didn't want to. You can go back to start again, but you have to get out of the hole first. Remember, step by step, little by little, you will move a mountain and break the rocks. Angelina Dražić, 2.e
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Edirne Süleyman Demirel Science High School, Edirne, Turkey
Edirne Süleyman Demirel Science High School-by Oytun Sevil
Why is it difficult to break down things that are firmly grounded? Why does it take time to build them? What is the main source of their strength? I would like to explain with an example. The most important feature that distinguishes an inexperienced person from an experienced one is the things they have lived and the lessons they learned from them. It's difficult for experienced people to make mistake but for inexperienced ones it's easy. The pain thresholds in their emotions are different from each other. The reactions they give to the challenges in their life is different. The experienced person look at events with results from the past. This person lives lots of things and these show that person how to behave in the future. This situation is similar to building a structure. Firstly the foundation is laid. This is the troubles in life. You can't stand against the others unless you take lessons from these difficulties. If the foundation was built on sand, the concrete on it does not make sense. If you pass through the difficulties that you have learned, the building will be completed and you will achieve what you want. After that, there are no obstacles in front of you. Now you are more resistant. Elif İkra ÇİMEN
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MAY „Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful.“ Kailash Satyarthi
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Ekonomsko-birotehnička škola, Slavonski Brod, Croatia
Ekonomsko-birotehnička škola Grown-ups should turn to a child's life. They should take a step back and release the burden of stress. People should re-live a child's simple life filled with joy. Matija Majić, 2.e
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Edirne Süleyman Demirel Science High School, Edirne, Turkey
Edirne Süleyman Demirel Science High School-by Oytun Sevil
Childhood. the best chapter of life. In this chapter you are learning things like writing, reading, playing games, sharing your stuffs etc. These were your concerns about life when you were a child. When we are children we rarely think about future. For example they ask us what job we wanted to do in the future and we say dancer, singer, astronaut, pilot… These jobs come out to our mouths recklessly. We are saying those jobs because we don’t have any concerns. There is a famous quote about this: "The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind." Because childhood is simple, it's innocent. They can't control the world; they can't walk away from the moment that hurts. But you have to allow them to experience life on their own. In childhood you have a super imagination. Children take pleasure of small things that make them happy. They use a stick as a sword, a remote as a microphone ... Look at the world with the child's eye, it is very beautiful with love and peace all around without hate and war. Ece Minel Bursalı
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JUNE “I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.” Stephenie Meyer
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Ekonomsko-birotehnička škola, Slavonski Brod, Croatia
Ivona Olanović, 2.e
You know how people seem happy when you first talk or see them? You think: “Wow, he is so happy, I think he can never be sad!“ But do you ever wonder if that person is really like that? Because I do. I know one person, very dear to me, and he is the funniest and happiest person alive. That is, at least, what I thought. I thought I really knew him all this time, but I didn’t. I had never seen his real star until one time when I saw who he truly and deeply was. In his dark I saw his star. People sometimes have to look into the dark to find the one true purpose in someone’s life, to find what the reason for their dark is, and maybe to start to light them up. But remember, if you try really, really hard, maybe some day you will see the star in someone else’s dark heart and when you do so, hold on to it. Nensi Dubac, 2.e
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Edirne Süleyman Demirel Science High School, Edirne, Turkey
Edirne Süleyman Demirel Science High School - by Oytun Sevil Story of Everthing Once upon a time, there was a happy little girl. She was so happy and curious. She loved stars and nights. She was staying with her family in a small village. The village was near a sea. Every night she loved going to the dock. This was her favorite place to go. One day she went there again. She sat on the dock and she looked at the stars. "I love the dark and night." she said. While she was looking at the stars, her elder sister came and sat near her. She looked at her sister and said "What happened?". Her sister didn't answer the little girl. They sat quietly for a while. Her sister was the first to break the silence. "I used to come here, too. I loved here when I was a child. But now, I don't come here anymore." her sister said. "Why?" the little girl asked. "Because when I was a child, I always wanted to learn all of the stars' stories." she said. "Do stars really have stories? I didn't know that." the little girl said. She was so amazed about the answer. Her sister chuckled. "Yes, they do have stories. Everything has a story. Even the dark and the night." her sister answered. And suddenly a star fell from the sky. The little girl thought that this was also the answer of the question. Gökçe Beren Dağ
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JULY „Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.“ Maya Angelou
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Ekonomsko-birotehnička škola, Slavonski Brod, Croatia
Laura Hercog, 2.e
Every storm can be silenced with a smile. A kind word can disperse clouds. If we are good friends, we can help someone find the sun again. We can be a rainbow. Gabrijela Pejić i Katarina Sliško, 2.e
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Edirne Süleyman Demirel Science High School, Edirne, Turkey
Edirne Süleyman Demirel Science High School- by Oytun Sevil TAKE THIS JOY I always think that being happy and having joy is such a hard thing to do in this world. But someone taught me how to be happy and have joy easily: My mother. She always says "Look around and find small things that make you happy. For example look at these clouds. They are white and fluffy, when they are happy. But when they get angry, they turn into black scary monsters. And they scare every other living creature in this world. People are also like clouds. When we get angry, we scare everybody. When we are happy, we make everybody happy." "What about rainbows?" I asked once. "Rainbows are also like joy." She answered. "But they are different from white clouds. You can share rainbows. You can give it to other clouds. But white clouds are like your own happiness. Even they are different, they still complete and balance each other. Make yourself happy, and then share your happiness. You will see what I meant." Since that conversation, I always smile and see the small things in the world. I also try to make everybody happy. Because I know that even one little smile makes this world a better place; for you, for me and for everybody. Gökçe Beren Dağ
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AUGUST „Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.“ Jonathan Swift
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Ekonomsko-birotehnička škola, Slavonski Brod, Croatia
Angelina Dražić, 2.e
Blind people can often see more than people with sight, because they look with their heart, not their eyes. There is a difference between gazing and really seeing what matters. Martina Hećimović i Luka Špehar, 2.e
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Edirne SĂźleyman Demirel Science High School, Edirne, Turkey
Edirne SĂźleyman Demirel Science High School-by Oytun Sevil Have you ever examined your imagination? Have you ever seen it a piece of yourself? Imagination is the only thing that improves our thinkings and makes us who we are. It is special for us! It is an imaginary wall against people. Such a wall you can fly, you can make magic and nobody can know what you do. Such as its name, it is imagination! Imagination is like giving unlimited chocolate to a child.
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Dreaming is the beginning of creation. It is the art of doing something when we close our eyes. Imagination is such a wonderful thought that takes us to other worlds and we won't be able to leave its inebriation. It is a matchless art of converts worthless memories to candy. You can write a book,create a movie,do art and be successful with imagination. Successful career is difficult without imagination. If an engineer, photographer, architect, designer, author and others want to be successful on their career, they must imagine something. Okay but how can we imagine? If you close your eyes and kick the ball, you can not score a goal. Because you should set a goal, imagination is like that. First you should find “what you are going to think?”. Then you can see your tree in an endless forest and in your mind. Oh, don’t cut the trees. You can get wood but you can also kill your magical forest in your mind. Don’t forget! The founders of famous companies are successful through imagination and perseverance. We should get a unicorn and fly to another beautiful world through the clouds for improving our imagination. We should find books to open the doors of other beautiful worlds and use them. So we can add imagination to our forest and make it charming. Because the forest that has an imagination in it, doesn’t resemble a normal one. You can see flying creatures , satyrs , dragons in this forest. You ride one of them and travel in time. Maybe you can go to Asia with Alexander the Great or go to the future and get a flying car… Oytun Sevil
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Şehit Sadık Kozak Anatolian High School, Banaz, Turkey
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SEPTEMBER „The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.“ Audrey Hepburn
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Ekonomsko-birotehnička škola, Slavonski Brod, Croatia
Borna Vidović, 2,e Why would you be someone's follower? Be a leader! Why would you do things that don't make you happy? If you do things which make you happy, the results in your life will make you happy, too. When you see that someone is sad, share your happiness. Because sharing positive energy around you is the best medicine to be happy. Enjoy your life and live every second. Don’t hide in shadows! Live according to nature’s rules. Don’t only see the sun! Be the sun in someone’s life. You can’t make someone happy if you are miserable. Klara Pavlinović, 2.e
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Edirne Süleyman Demirel Science High School, Edirne, Turkey
Edirne Süleyman Demirel Science High School-by Elif İkra Çimen Life is too short to be sad. We can be happy easily. So why are we sad all the time? Books, flowers, animals, children… We should always watch them and we can feel happiness not pain. If you want to be happy, it is so easy. Imagine just imagine all the things that are beautiful in your life. If your dream is being a dancer, what are you waiting for? Just dance! Make your dream real. You haven’t got any handicaps. The biggest handicap in your life is you. Don’t be negative. You can catch the happiness. If you want this, you can. Happiness is not far away from you. You can find happiness at the first page of your book or in your mother’s eyes. Just be happy. Love people, every person has an amazing quality. You should find this, then you can love easily. You will see your life will be liveable, and also all your life will be unbelievable. Almira Şevval Erdeniz
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OCTOBER “Autumn...the year's last, loveliest smile." William Cullen Bryant
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Ekonomsko-birotehnička škola, Slavonski Brod, Croatia
Ekonomsko-birotehnička škola
Life is a beautiful present grateful you should be. Smile without fear do what you love and your future will be clear. Klara Pavlinović, 2.e
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Edirne Süleyman Demirel Science High School, Edirne, Turkey
Edirne Süleyman Demirel Science High School-by Oytun Sevil
There are a lot of songs about autumn, a lot of quotes, In autumn the cities are beautiful. The colourful leaves on the ground, the wind in your hair… I think the seasons are just like humans. They are born in winter. You need somebody to learn talking, walking, eating, keeping you warm and safe. Next childhood chapter is coming like spring. In my opinion it’s the best chapter of life. It’s beautiful. You’ve already learned everything that you can have a normal life. You can do something by yourself. You are one of the crowd now. You start to bloom in that season of your life. Then summer comes. It means you are a grown up now. Your tree starts to bear lots of fruits. The leaves of your life start to fall in autumn. The years last like your last times. There are always windy days. The clouds are grey like your hair. There are sunny days too, the happy ones. Then your time is up. But life is still full of miracles. Ece Minel Bursalı
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Şehit Sadık Kozak Anatolian High School, Banaz, Turkey
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NOVEMBER „We know what we are, but know not what we may be.“ William Shakespeare
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Ekonomsko-birotehnička škola, Slavonski Brod, Croatia
Ekonomsko-birotehnička škola So much truth in one sentence. Every day a new page of one book, book of your life. As William says, everyone knows what they are but nobody knows his future. The only thing that you can do is to work hard so you can become a great person. Katarina Sliško, 2.e This shows that all of us can expand our horizons; we don’t have any boundaries. So, we shouldn’t look at ourselves and think that we can’t improve as a person. Everyone is given the same chance, but it is up to us to make use of it. Hanna Andrea Webber, 2.e
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Edirne Süleyman Demirel Science High School, Edirne, Turkey
Edirne Süleyman Demirel Science High School-by Gökçe Beren Dağ Took Us To Another Page Every place that we've lived in, Every game that we've been in, Every road that we've seen, Took us to another page. Every right that we've won, Every time that we've been born, Every soul that we've prayed for, Took us to another page. Every person that we've met, Every time that we've failed, Every moment that we've got scared, Took us to another page. Gökçe Beren Dağ
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Şehit Sadık Kozak Anatolian High School, Banaz, Turkey
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DECEMBER „The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.“ Saint Augustine
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Ekonomsko-birotehnička škola, Slavonski Brod, Croatia
Klara Pavlinović, 2.e
Life passes and people must take every chance because life is short and we have only one. Ivona Pešorda, 2.e People who don’t have the ambition to work on themselves will never find out what they can become. Ivona Olanović, 2.e
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Edirne Süleyman Demirel Science High School, Edirne, Turkey
Edirne Süleyman Demirel Science High School - by Elif İkra Çimen The world does not consist of what you see around you. There are a lot of beauties in the world; a lot of beautiful sights to see, waterfalls with rainbows in front of them, amazing mountains, incredible animals... People who love travelling know that wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow. Once you go there; you discover new places, you make memories. Then if you go there again, it feels like home because it's a part of you. Travelling is also filling your life with adventures. When you get old, you have stories to tell to your children or your grandchildren. Not to have stories to tell to them would be sad. When you look back to your life in your fifties you will be disappointed by the things you didn't do. You always say things like "I should have done that while i could have done." It can be too late. If you have a chance to travel, do it. By the way don't do it alone. Being on a vacation with your friends is always the best one. When you're away you can feel lonely also you can make more memories with your friends. While you are travelling, you are flipping the pages of the book. The book whose name is the world. Ece Minel Bursalı
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Şehit Sadık Kozak Anatolian High School, Banaz, Turkey
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