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A principios de curso nos llegó al instituto la noticia de que el Ayuntamiento de Gijón, a través de su oficina de Políticas de Igualdad, convocaba por primera vez un concurso dirigido a escolares de entre 12 y 18 años. Con esta iniciativa se trataba de promover la educación para la igualdad de género así como prevenir y sensibilizar a la comunidad educativa frente a cualquier manifestación de violencia de género. Los premios estaban divididos en dos categorías: artística y escrita, y en tres niveles: 1º- 2º ESO, 3º-4º ESO y 1º-2º Bachillerato. Los trabajos presentados debían estar tutelados por un profesor del centro que, desde su asignatura, trataría un tema relacionado con la mujer.

Nuestro instituto participó en las dos categorías con 4 alumnos de 3º ESO bilingüe y con 2 de 2º de Bachillerato, todos ellos tutelados por Teresa Jove, profesora de inglés. Los trabajos tratan temas como la violencia doméstica, la situación de la mujer en nuestra sociedad actual, la presencia de la mujer en los diversos campos del saber a lo largo de la historia o dos trabajos en los que se hizo una pequeña investigación sobre El Anillo Culper y sobre la figura de Malala Jousafzai.

De los seis trabajos presentados, tres consiguieron llegar a la final.

Durante el acto de entrega de premios, que tuvo lugar en el Salón de Recepciones del Ayuntamiento y estuvo presidido por la alcaldesa de Gijón, se proyectaron los tres que presentábamos en la categoría artística.

En cuanto a los escritos, serán publicados por el ayuntamiento. En este mismo acto se reconoció la calidad de todos los trabajos presentados, un total de 43, procedentes de 14 centros educativos de Gijón.

TRABAJOS PRESENTADOS

CATEGORÍA ESCRITA:

THE CULPER SPY RING, María Valdés del Tejo, 3º ESO bilingüe.

A LETTER FROM ROSARIO DE ACUÑA, Sergio Junquera Pérez, 3º ESO bilingüe.

AN ACCESS TO THE WORLD OF KNOWLEDGE, Lucía Valiente Cuervo, 2º Bachillerato.

CATEGORÍA ARTÍSTICA: VIOLENCE, ONE MORE STORY, Deyanera Bermejo Guerrero, 3º ESO bilingüe.

DO YOU KNOW WOMEN, Soraya Lara Ignacio, 3º ESO bilingüe.

JUST OPEN YOUR MIND AND WATCH BEYOND, bachillerato.

Dora Martínez Llorente, 2º

THE CULPER SPY RING DESCRIPCION DEL TRABAJO PRESENTADO: Cuando propuse a mis alumnos que pensasen en un tema para participar en el concurso, María Valdés lo tuvo muy claro desde el principio. Hacía poco que había visto un documental en el Canal Historia de TV sobre el papel decisivo que jugaron algunas mujeres en los movimientos separatistas norteamericanos del poder británico y decidió investigar un poco más sobre estos hechos que le llamaron tanto la atención y de los que nunca antes había oído hablar.

En su trabajo nos habla de la formación del Culper Spy Ring y de alguna (¿o algunas?) de sus componentes más famosas. El Anillo Culper, como se le conoce en español, fue un grupo de inteligencia creado por George Washington en el que por primera vez se encomiendan labores de espionaje a la mujer, justo en una época en la que se suponía que su tarea principal era la de cuidar de la casa y la familia. Fue precisamente esto lo que aseguró su anonimato más absoluto y, por consiguiente, el éxito de las acciones llevadas a cabo.

Este texto será utilizado en la clase de Inglés como lectura de interés para los alumnos de 3º ESO bilingüe.

THE CULPER SPY RING British forces occupied New York in August 1776, and the city remained a British stronghold and a major naval base for the duration of the Revolutionary War.

Getting information from New York was

extremely important to General George Washington. For that reason they needed an intelligence network. In 1778 a young officer named Benjamin Tallmadge established a small group of men and women from his hometown in Long Island known as the Culper Spy Ring. It became the most effective of any intelligence-gathering operation on either side during the Revolutionary War. Its heyday was between 1778 and 1781.

Secrecy was so strict that even Washington did not know the identity of all the members, that’s why they were given code names.

Women were also an integral part of The Culper Ring. They were seen as critical members of it.

At this time in history, women were

expected to share their husbands' beliefs and not to be involved in politics so they would never be suspect of being spies. The Culper Ring was the

first organization to use spy women, which surprised historians - as I said before - because at that time women were not allowed to do anything about politics or war.

Anna Strong was a resident in Long Island, New York. She helped pass along messages from the spy ring by posting pre-arranged signals to indicate when one of the spies was ready to submit intelligence. She used a black petticoat and white handkerchiefs for it.

One of those women who helped in the Culper Ring´s affair was known as "355". Some historians think that 355 was the first spy woman.

She is called “The Hidden Woman of the Revolution.” Historians believe that 355 was a member of a noble family so she was able to keep in touch with British officers. Some of them suggested that she might be the girlfriend of Major Andre because when he was stationed in New York there was a lot of information, but when Andre was out of the city there was not that much. One of her best works was to accuse Benedict Arnold.

The only direct reference to Agent 355 is a Culper Ring's letter from Abraham Woodhull (Samuel Culper Sr.) to General George Washington in 1778.

Little is known about this mysterious lady who George Washington considered as the best spy. But in the end she was discovered. In October

1780, 355 was captured and imprisoned in an English prison ship. The English army tortured her for information, but she did not tell anything about the spy network. Today 355 is still a hero to the American people.

The identity of the woman known as 355 has yet to be discovered.

Some believe that 355 was Anna Strong. Others feel that 355 was inside the city. Without the help of 355, the American fight could have taken longer and it would have cost more lives.

Benjamin Tallmadge and George Washington realized the importance and the courage of these women and thanks to that they defeated the English, who never thought that women could have an important role in the war.

The general public was not aware of the Ring's existence until the 1930s when a trunk full of old letters was discovered.

There are people who think that 355 is the reference to the word "lady" but the remarkable thing is that this word means that women were important to the organization.

The importance of women in war is

unquestionable. In my opinion, the agent Anna Strong and the agent 355 were two very brave women who, in their own way, fought for equality between men and women.

WORKS CITED http://lacuevadesusana.blogspot.com.es/2012/11/355-la-hija-oculta-dela-revolucion.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culper_Ring Canal de Historia, Secretos Desclasificados: La camarilla del Presidente.

María Valdés del Tejo 3º ESO Bilingüe

A LETTER FROM ROSARIO DE ACUÑA

DESCRIPCION DEL TRABAJO PRESENTADO: Sergio Junquera pensó desde un principio en escribir sobre la mujer que da nombre a nuestro instituto, Rosario de Acuña, y que además destacó por sus ideas - muy avanzadas para la época - con respecto al papel de la mujer en la sociedad.

En vez de limitarse a hablar de su vida y obra decidió darle un giro más original. Se preguntó cuál sería la opinión de la escritora sobre la situación actual de la mujer y se le ocurrió que Rosario de Acuña le eligiese a él para dar a conocer al público sus reflexiones. Por este motivo la autora le manda una carta encomendándole que la haga llegar a los medios de comunicación. En ella muestra a veces su descontento sobre aspectos como la imagen que aún se tiene de la mujer, el papel de ésta en la sociedad o el machismo. Otras, en cambio, se muestra esperanzada porque reconoce que las cosas han cambiado y van camino de hacerlo aún más.

Para redactar esta carta desde el punto de vista de Rosario de Acuña, Sergio se documentó antes sobre la escritora leyendo su biografía y algunos de sus escritos. Finalmente le dio forma en inglés, lo que nos permitirá utilizar el texto en nuestra clase de 3º ESO bilingüe. Haremos un ejercicio de Reading Comprehension y se abrirá un posterior debate en inglés sobre las diferencias entre la situación de la mujer a principios del S. XX y nuestros días.

A LETTER FROM ROSARIO DE ACUÑA Tuesday, 5th March, 2013 Dear Sergio: My name is Rosario de Acuña, a writer who lived at the end of 19th C and the beginning of the 20th C. But I’m sure you already know me. After all, I’m the woman who gives the name to your school. I know it’s weird.

Why me? And how? Maybe you think this is a joke, taking into account that I died 75 years ago, but you have to believe it. Don’t ask how.

I’ve been thinking about the current situation of the world and I see that, regarding people’s equality, some things have changed, but others… I didn’t know how to make my opinion known and that’s why I’m writing to you. I hope that you tell it to some newspaper or any other media.

I have to admit that women’s situation has changed: Spain, as other developed countries, is a democratic state in which women can vote; have jobs which some years ago were only for men; be politicians and even be

leaders in some institutions. But… Is this a total genre equality, or is it a superficial one?

People’s mind is still old-fashioned. Legal changes happen more quickly than psychological ones. For example, most of the people think that men are the main support in a home. When the woman is the economic support, people feel sorry for her and they see the man as a lazy person.

Is this the equality we want? After all the fighting, all the advertising campaigns…Why do people think men are the ones who should work and women the ones who should take care of the house? Sometimes women receive less money than men for the same job! It’s scandalous! This is one of the many symptoms of disguised machismo in our society.

Another example could be social and sentimental relationships. Among uneducated people fruitless relationships are established, in which women don’t raise over the status of “object woman”. Unfortunately, I think that uneducated people are over 50% of the people… In addition, men (generally) have really big egos which want to be fed. What do women do to solve it? They behave as if they were stupid, so men can feel they are the center of the world. This behavior sometimes leads to gender abuse. This is more important than it seems, because people get used to what I told you before: women depend on men to survive.

Machismo symptoms are present (unconsciouly?) even in the media.

Films, video clips, music… Some of these films are Disney films. Most of them have the same topic: a princess who finds a knight in shining armour. This seems really innocent, but if we translate this into 21st C meaning, we have this: a woman that finds a cute man who has to support her. Why do Disney Studios make films of this kind? Cinderella, Snow White… Maybe this is because they are really famous and people like them, but I think it’s really weird. The world has changed! Do you think I’m a paranoid?

If we talk about music, there are kinds of music, like Reggaeton, which have lyrics that are degrading for women. If we watch the video clips, we realize that women are also considered “object women”, to say the least.

Even songs written by women are sometimes degrading, showing themselves as “object women”, which is really sadder.

As a conclusion, I can only ask myself: does society want genre equality?

I don’t know… After every fighting, every advertising campaign… The things I fought for... Why do people reject them? Is it so difficult? Anyway, I am absolutely sure that we have to continue fighting. Our ideas will be heard some day. Legal equality is an important achievement, but people should change their minds. Will a day come in which society will have a

total equality? Only time will say, though I know it won’t be easy… What do you think about that?

Before saying goodbye, I repeat my request to you: please, give this letter to any media. I want society to know my opinion. I hope people listen to me and change their minds, at least partially…

The best of luck, Rosario de Acuña Sergio Junquera Pérez 3º ESO Bilingüe

AN ACCESS TO THE WORLD OF KNOWLEDGE

DESCRIPCION DEL TRABAJO PRESENTADO: Como a los demás alumnos que se presentaron al concurso bajo mi tutela, a Lucía Valiente le propuse elaborar una actividad en inglés que no fuera sólo un documento sin más, sino algo que nos sirviera para debatir en clase, para remover conciencias e invitar a la reflexión.

Lucía me contó que había quedado muy impactada por una noticia que había visto no hacía mucho en televisión. Se trataba del intento de los talibanes de asesinar a Malala Yousafzai, una paquistaní de 14 años empeñada en hacer accesible la educación a todas las niñas de su país.

Con esta idea en mente, buscó información sobre la labor de la joven activista paquistaní y elaboró un sencillo, directo y completo relato seguido de una serie de preguntas encaminadas a dirigir un posterior debate en inglés, que utilizaremos como material de clase.

El título que da nombre al relato de Lucía es una frase con la que la propia Malala cerró un correo que envió a un corresponsal de la BBC en 2009.

AN ACCESS TO THE WORLD OF KNOWLEDGE Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani school student who is well known for her activism in Swat Valley, where the Taliban have banned girls from going to school. The Taliban are anti-communist war veterans from Afghanistan who follow an extremist Islamic doctrine based on the suppression of freedom.

Malala loved going to school and her highest aspiration is to be a doctor and help people, but her life has changed completely. In 2008, the Talibans arrived and banned watching TV, listening to the radio and they didn't let women get an education. Malala's city was packed with child soldiers, corpses and beheaded bodies of people who had opposed the new military regime.

Later that year, the BBC suggested Malala starting a blog about her life under this regime. She would show her courage in it. Her parents refused the idea because they were afraid of the punishment, so she chose a pseudonym: Gul Makai, which is the name of a hero from a popular tale in Pakistan. Malala dictated her diary to a BBC correspondent by telephone every week. Her writings were very successful in Pakistan, Arab Emirates, USA, India, Canada and in the UK.

'All I want is an

education and I'm not afraid of anyone', she declared on a TV programme.

'I want to be a politician, people need me, I want to help them', she added.

In December 2009, the Taliban were driven out of Swat Valley and his father revealed her identity as the BBC correspondent. Then she was nominated for the International Children's Prize and from then on, she started to receive written threatens under her house's door.

In October 9, when she was just 14 years old, the Taliban went a step further and they decided to kill her. A hooded man entered the school bus in which Malala was travelling and, holding a gun, he shouted: 'Who of you is Malala?' None of the girls answered, but their looks revealed who she was. He shot Malala. The bullet passed behind her left eye, it went through her neck and it lodged in her shoulder. But she managed to survive.

Malala and her family were taken to United Kingdom, where she was safely operated on and she received a lot of supporting messages.

After undergoing several interventions, Malala is recovering well and she will soon return to work as announced on television: 'This is a second life, I want to be helpful, I want every child to be educated'. By now, she is

raising funds to promote female education in Pakistan and she has been nominated for the Nobel Prize for Peace.

Just a 14-year-old girl, she has started a battle to make her country a place free of fear. Surely no one can stop Malala and nobody knows what goals this young activist will achieve in the future. Trying to put an end to her life, Talibans have done her a ‘favour’: they have made her worldwide famous, which is no doubt the most powerful help to get what she is fighting for. Good luck Malala!

WORKS CITED ∙http://www.voanoticias.com/content/internacionales-londres-malalayousafzai-recuperada-/1596912.html ∙http://www.nytimes.com/video/2012/10/09/world/asia/1000000018352 96/class-dismissed.html ∙http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/04/world/malala-surgery-recovery ∙http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/09/my-small-video-starfights-for-her-life/ TIME TO DEBATE -What do you think of the story?

-According to some people, why is it so dangerous that women have access to education?

-What goals do you think Malala will achieve? Will we hear about her in the future?

Lucía Valiente Cuervo 2º Bachillerato

VIOLENCE, ONE MORE STORY

DESCRIPCION DEL TRABAJO PRESENTADO: Con esta impactante poes铆a Deyanera Bermejo ha querido dejar clara su postura de rechazo total a la violencia y al maltrato, y la convicci贸n absoluta de que el tipo de situaci贸n que se describe en el poema tiene salida.

VIOLENCE, ONE MORE STORY

Three more years with my back to the door and all I could hear was you shouting some words.

I beg you to stop but you want me to believe that it’s my own fault.

You knock me down breaking my heart I began to cry don’t mind if it hurts.

I look at myself in the mirror and I look so strange, my eyes are so purple and my face is red.

I want to run away I can’t move my legs so I am her now for you to do it again.

Red are my hands, and red is the tap you know that I’m bleeding but you won't stop.

You see my face it looks frightening you listen to the door bell and you turn away scared.

Say no to the beating, better to talk, don’t let anyone say that it’s false

Shouting ‘what am I doing’ you hide away and the next day you knock me again.

don’t let anyone say that it doesn’t work sometimes in relationships you must be strong.

Deyanera G. Bermejo 3 ESO Bilingüe

DO YOU KNOW WOMEN?

DESCRIPCION DEL TRABAJO PRESENTADO: La cara de Frida Kahlo está formada por 44 nombres de mujeres destacadas en campos tan variados como la política, las ciencias, las artes o la sociedad.

Si en tan pequeño espacio es posible reunir a tantas, no cabe la menor duda de que está más que justificado que el día 8 de marzo en mi instituto se hable de la mujer.

Esto es lo que Soraya Lara propone con su dibujo. Se trata en realidad de un juego en el que los alumnos tienen que señalar sólo a aquellas mujeres a las que conozcan. Los resultados están graduados por tramos, ganando aquellos que hayan seleccionado al mayor número de mujeres. A continuación se hace una exposición oral en inglés en la que el alumno elige a una mujer del dibujo y cuenta a la clase lo que sabe de ella.

Soraya Lara Ignacio 3º ESO Bilingüe

JUST OPEN YOUR MIND AND WATCH BEYOND

DESCRIPCION DEL TRABAJO PRESENTADO: En muchas ocasiones, aún hoy en día, la idea que se tiene de la mujer es la que se transmite a través de las circunstancias sociales y culturales.

Con su acuarela Dora Martínez reivindica el derecho esencial que tenemos las mujeres a ser consideradas por lo que realmente somos. Just Open your Mind and Watch Beyond invita a quien mira la imagen a intentar encontrar entre las ramas a la mujer desnuda, desprovista de todo artificio. Estas ramas que la esconden no son otra cosa que los prejuicios sociales y culturales que en ocasiones tanto daño hacen. Lograr el objetivo es sencillo: sólo hay que abrir la mente.

Dora MartĂ­nez Llorente 2Âş Bachillerato