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      <description>Un percorso didattico secondo la modalità CLIL  in History realizzato da una classe 5 del Liceo Scientifico G. Galilei di Pescara interamente in  DAD nel mese di Marzo 2020.
Le attività vengono sviluppate  in Flipped Learning con la scelta  di quelle &#39;tecnologie di comunità&#39; che permettono una forte interazione e collaborazione tra gli alunni anche a distanza. 
Il percorso si avvia con l&#39;ascolto guidato  dei DISCORSI autentici di Winston  CHURCHILL alla nazione britannica  durante i bombardamenti della Seconda Guerra Mondiale.  La forza prorompente della sua ARS ORATORIA, la significatività delle parole di questo grande esempio di DEBATER, che era solito preparare con cura quasi maniacale i suoi discorsi,  ci conducono alla riflessione di uno dei &#39;momenti più bui&#39; della storia contemporanea. Durante il confronto, nelle video lezioni in sincrono  o nelle chat della classe virtuale o dei fogli cooperativi, gli studenti si confrontano su TASK significativi.
La  riflessione sull&#39;emergenza che stiamo vivendo a causa della pandemia causata dal COVID-19 la affidiamo alle parole dei Grandi personaggi storici selezionati ed analizzati da ogni studenti come mentor per i loro Public Speaking. 
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         <description><![CDATA[<div><mark>LEAD-IN</mark></div><pre>Flipping <mark>Introductory activity</mark></pre><div>Many of his speeches resonate today, and historians and biographers continue to grapple with Churchill's approach to speaking and the use of language. He believed in the romantic power of speeches and used the BBC radio channel as a powerful weapon to call his country to action.<br><br><strong><mark>Join Class and make the activity</mark></strong></div><blockquote>CODE egxqGa</blockquote><div><a href="https://edpuzzle.com/join/egxqGa">https://edpuzzle.com/join/egxqGa</a></div>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div><mark>LEAD-IN</mark></div><pre><mark>Introduction to the e-tivity</mark></pre><div>In a period of great difficulty during wartime Sir Winston Churchill, <strong>Prime Minister</strong> of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945  (when he led Britain to victory in the Second World War) and again from 1951 to 1955, played a crucial role also thanks to his stirring oratory which is perhaps his greatest legacy.</div><div>Churchill never had a speech-writer however many might have been involved in the preparation of his major speeches. Many of his friends reported that he has spent '<em>many years of his life composing impromptu speeches' .(Telegraph, 2011)</em></div>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<pre><em>Collaborative work by Claudia Ceccomancini, Sara Di Lizio, Matteo Diodati, Alessandro Gallo, Giulia Gianvito, Vanessa Manzoli. </em></pre><div><br></div><div><em> A s</em>peech delivered by <strong>Winston Churchill</strong> to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom on <strong>18 June 1940</strong>.</div><blockquote><br>“You ask, what is our policy? I will say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark and lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy.”<br><br></blockquote>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<pre><em>Collaborative work made by Matteo Gravina, Anastasia Papanikolau, Elena di Ienno, Giorgia Carnevale,  Samuel Baldini</em></pre><div><br>This is Churchill’s first speech, on the 13th of May 1940, during the First Year of World War II, when he became the Prime Minister of England. It was delivered to the House of Commons for the support of all parties, including the political dissent.<br><br></div><blockquote>"You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: Victory. Victory at all costs—Victory in spite of all terror—Victory, however long and hard the road may be, for without victory there is no survival"</blockquote><div><br></div>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div><em>Collaborative work made by Paradiso Andrea, Innocente Jacopo, Pretara Edoardo, Palumbaro Michele, Membrino Matteo, Verrocchio Francesca<br></em><br>"<em>We Shall Fight on the Beaches</em>" (or "<em>We Shall Never Surrender</em>") was a famous historical speech delivered by Winston Churchill to the House of Commons on <strong>June 4, 1940</strong>. Broadly, it was considered a eulogy to the British war effort that has been immortalised in popular memory of the Second World War.<br><br></div><blockquote>"<em>We shall fight in the fields and in the streets,</em><br><em>We shall fight in the hills;</em><br><em>We shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God’s good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old"</em></blockquote>]]></description>
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         <title>THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN </title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<pre><em><mark>Pair-work by Samuel Baldini and Ji Ying</mark></em></pre><div>During wartime propaganda <strong>posters</strong> played a vital role, in fact governments used them to persuade people to volunteer into the war recruitment and alter people opinion. The picture below contains one of Churchill’s famous lines “<em>Never so much owed by so many to so few</em>” which refers to the ongoing efforts of the <strong>Royal Air Force</strong> that were fighting in the <strong>Battle of Britain</strong> with the <strong>German Luftwaffe</strong>, as a matter of fact pilots who fought in the battle have been known as “The Few” ever since and they are commemorated on <strong>15 September,</strong> the "Battle of Britain Day". Not only this poster was used as a war recruitment but also as an inspiration for people, thanks to Churchill’s quotation. </div>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<pre>Pair-work <em>by Jacopo Innocente and Matteo Gravina </em></pre><div><br></div><ul><li>Who was the most leading British Prime Minister , sir Winston Churchill? </li></ul><div><strong>Winston Churchill</strong> is commonly regarded as one of the 20th century’s most significant figures. In fact, he played the role of <strong>Prime Minister</strong> twice, mainly when he led Britain to the victory against Germany during the <strong>Second World War</strong> and again from 1952 to 1955. </div><div>Despite being so loved and admired by many of his fellow citizens, the mental health problems that he suffered from alongside his harsh and honest personality, made him pretty difficult to work with. Nonetheless, his love for Britain is still admirable today and will live on forever thanks to the powerful and memorable speeches that he delivered during his successful career.<br><br><a href="https://bit.ly/2JeG0Xu"><mark>https://bit.ly/2JeG0Xu</mark></a></div>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Group: <em><mark>Carlo Martinelli, Vanessa Manzoli, Michele Palumbaro, Francesca Verrocchio</mark></em><br><br>In this period of anxiety and concern caused by the spread of <strong>COVID-19 </strong>globally most Leaders are delivering speeches on the importance of following the rules and also on the solution that will be adopted to overcome this pandemy.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>Ursula von der Leyen</strong>, President of the European Commission, on  15 March published a short speech on her <em>Twitter page @</em>UrsulavonderLeyen where, she says:</div><blockquote> “<em>We need to protect our health workers [...] with protective equipment, masks, gloves, ecc. We work on three front, first we are working with the industries to ramp up productions, second we need to keep in the EU the protective equipment that we need, this is why we adopted todayan export authorization scheme for protective equipment, [...] we need to share this equipment in the European Union. [...] By producing more, keeping it in the European Union and sharing with each other we can protect our health workers, patients and contain the spread of the virus” </em></blockquote><div>This speech makes it evident the importance of living in a community like the EU that has shown its strength mostly in difficult times like the ones we are living in helping States on the economical and primarily on the sanitary side, for the sake of all.</div><div><br></div><div><strong><em>SPAIN</em></strong></div><blockquote>"<em>It is a war, we are facing a health and economic emergency that we have never seen before</em>,"</blockquote><div> said Premier<strong><em> Sanchez</em></strong> asking the Spaniards to </div><blockquote>"<em>remain united and to follow the rules, each doing its part</em>".</blockquote><div> King Felipe VI also intervened to "give confidence" to the country.</div><div><br></div><blockquote>"<em>There is a group of regions that, without reaching the highest rates, have recorded a significant increase in deaths in the last week. It is a phenomenon that has not occurred in Italy </em>", explains <strong><em>Daniel Lopez Acuna</em></strong>, Public Health Expert, former director of the OMS crisis unit in the Iberian country. "<em>In Italy</em> - adds Lopez Acuna - <em>mobility has been reduced around the first outbreaks detected, while in Spain it has remained very high even in the days preceding the declaration of the state of emergency</em>".</blockquote><div><strong><em>Pere Godoy</em></strong>, president of the Spanish Society of Epidemiology, speaks of delays in no uncertain terms: </div><blockquote>«<em>It is still too early</em> - he says - <em>to draw conclusions with scientific evidence but I think it was a mistake to allow people to circulate without limits in the days prior to entry in force of extraordinary measures</em> ".</blockquote><div><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23EsteVirusLoParamosUnidos&amp;src=hashtag_click"><mark>#EsteVirusLoParamosUnidos</mark></a></div><div><br></div><div><strong>GERMANY</strong></div><div>German Chancellor <strong>Angela Merkel </strong>spoke to the population in a historic televised speech about the Coronavirus pandemy.</div><blockquote>“<em>Dear fellow citizens,</em><br><em>the corona virus is radically changing life in our country. Our idea of ​​normality, of public life, of social interaction, all this has been put to the test like never before. [...] I know how difficult it is to get what we are asked to do. We want to be close to each other, especially in times of need. We know care like physical closeness or touch. Unfortunately, the opposite is currently true. And everyone really needs to und</em>erstand <em>that at the moment only distance is an expression of cure.[...] </em><br>T<em>here is a reason why experts say: grandparents and grandchildren shouldn't get together now. [...] This situation is serious and open.</em><br><em>This means: it will depend not only, but also on how everyone follows and implements the rules.</em><br><em>[...]  Without exception, everything depends on everyone and therefore on all of us.</em><br><em>Take care of yourself and your loved ones</em>.”  </blockquote><div><mark>#Nachbarschaftschallenge</mark></div><div><br></div><div><strong>UK</strong></div><blockquote>“The coronavirus is the biggest threat this country has faced for decades – and this country is not alone.” </blockquote><div>says the <strong>Prime Minister Boris Johnson i</strong>n March 23 during a speech to the nation. </div><blockquote> “All over the world we are seeing the devastating impact of this invisible killer. And so tonight I want to update you on the latest steps we are taking to fight the disease and what you can do to help.And I want to begin by reminding you why the UK has been taking the approach that we have.                                                                                                        Without a huge national effort to halt the growth of this virus, there will come a moment when no health service in the world could possibly cope; because there won’t be enough ventilators, enough intensive care beds, enough doctors and nurses.                                 <br> And as we have seen elsewhere, in other countries that also have fantastic healthcare systems, that is the moment of real danger.”</blockquote><div>Within the speech Boris Johnson announces closure of most shops , gatherings of more than two people and social events.</div><div><mark>#covidHasNoborder</mark></div>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<pre>A CLIL Module in History for 5th classes in LICEO SCIENTIFICO. </pre><div><br>Un percorso collaborativo realizzato nel mese di <strong>Marzo 2020</strong> prendendo forza dall'ascolto dei <strong>DISCORSI DI CHURCHILL</strong> alla Nazione durante i bombardamenti della Seconda Guerra Mondiale. La prorompete forza della sua ARS ORATORIA, la significatività delle parole di questo grande esempio di DEBATER che preparava i suoi discorsi con cura quasi maniacale.</div><div>La sua <strong> oratoria</strong> commovente è la grande eredità lasciata all'umanità ed i suoi discorsi meritano di essere ascoltati, letti e compresi poichè  mirabile esempi di 'incitamento alla nazione' , capaci di illuminare  il cammino ed indicare  la strada verso la fine del nostro 'periodo buio'.<br> #laScuolaNonSiFerma.<br>Anastasia Ciavattella<br> +  6<br>●<br>2h<br><br><br></div>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Un <mark>percorso cooperativ</mark>o include momenti di riflessione meta-cognitiva in cui il docente osserva azioni e comportamenti in termini di interazione, pro-attività, collaborazione ed iniziativa da parte degli studenti. Gli studenti, d'altro canto, partecipano anche a questa fase ricostruendo le tapper le percorso esprimendo considerazioni e riflessioni personali.   In Google Moduli abbiamo pensato di esprimerci così.</div>]]></description>
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