The future has memory

All alike, all different

by GIUSEPPINA TATONE
    School sections
    • Primary
    Educational subjects
    • Theatre/music

The future has memory

The project “The future has memory - All alike, all different” originated from the need to cover the theme of inter-culture, given the high number of foreign students in our schools. The path was conducted involving various subjects, such as Italian Language and Literature, History, Geography, Art, Physical Education, and Music. The objective was to present oppressed peoples and relevant oppressors in history, to lead the students to reflect on the peoples studied, and to reach the common conclusion that different does not mean negative, inferior, but resource.

In particular, 5 oppressed peoples were presented and their related 5 oppressors in 5 frames: 1) INDIANS-COWBOYS; 2) LATIN AMERICA – DRUG LORDS; 3) BLACK AFRICANS – ENGLISH AND FRENCH COLONIZERS; 4) BLACK AMERICANS - AMERICA OF CONSUMERISM; 5) JEWS-GERMANS. These peoples were studied in depth through videos, narrations, etc. Lastly, some pieces of music were matched with the peoples, and choreographies were realized on the pieces of music. A dialogue between a grandfather and a grandson was the recurring theme between one frame and another.

In the end, the peoples join to become a single, large population. A white figure arrives to make this union possible.

Work tools

The tools used were as follows: an IWB; a CD player; a space at school to realize the choreographies; a laboratory to create the costumes; various types of materials to make objects: canes, recycled cardboard, broom sticks, etc.; a theatre for the final performance.

Educational purposes

The skills, goals and training objectives selected by the teacher for this experience are shown below.

Competences
    Listening
    • Interpretation
    • Analysis
    Production
    • Execution
    Reading and Writing
    • Use of conventional analogic music notation
GOALS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMPETENCES [...]
    Primary
    Listening
    • Learning to listen to oneself and to the others
    • Identify the constitutive elements of a simple piece of music
    • Listening, interpreting and describing pieces of music of different genres
    Production
    • Exploring different expressive capacities of voice, musical objects and musical instruments
    • Producing timbre, melodic and rhythmic combinations applying basic schemes; executing them with the voice, the body and instruments (including IT tools).
    • Playing, alone or in group, simple vocal or instrumental pieces of music belonging to different genres and cultures, using also didactic instruments and self-made tools.
    Reading and Writing
    • Using analog and codified notation
Educational targets

The students learned how to:
- place peoples historically and geographically;
- relate to others;
- accept others;
- discover and enhance their feelings;
- listen to and analyze the musical pieces proposed by the teacher;
- identify the form of a musical piece;
- realize rhythmic choreographies.

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