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Focus: Creating

Subject: Norwegian

Grade:8

Topic: Fairytales by Asbjørnsen og Moe

From Norwegian curriculum after year 10:

Norsk: “planlegge, utforme og bearbeide egne tekster manuelt og digitalt, og vurdere dem underveis i prosessen ved hjelp av kunnskap om språk og tekst”(Utdanningsdirektoratet, 2013).

Engelsk: “bruke ulike situasjoner, arbeidsmåter og læringsstrategier for å utvikle egne ferdigheter i engelsk”(Utdanningsdirektoratet, 2013).

Objectives Norwegian:  Be able to use their knowledge of fairytales to produce a film based on a traditional Norwegian fairytale.

Objectives English: Be able to dramatize a fairytale in English

Into In the  into activity the students will get an access code and log into flinga.fi, there the students will brainstorm and write down what they know about Norwegian folk tales . Flinga is a useful tool for collaborative thinking,  where all students can see their collective knowledge on a topic.

Through: In this activity the students will get to choose one fairytale by Asbjørnsen and Moe  and dramatize and film a modern version. Students will be divided into groups of five. Then they will have to decide which fairytale they will dramatize. They will get to choose from two fairytales translated into English. “Three billy goats gruff” or “Boots and his brothers”.Then they have to discuss who will play which role and who will be in charge of camera and editing. After this, they all have to discuss and plan how they want to modernize the fairytale and which clothing and props they need, in addition to discussing film location. All groups will be required to create a storyboard, which shows the detailed plans for each scene, They can e.g use imovie to create this and it's also fine to just use cardboard and add post-it notes for each scene. When the storyboard is done and approved by the teacher, the students are ready to film the actual scenes. After the raw footage is done, the students have to edit it. The students can use either windows moviemaker or imovie to do do this, becaise these are fairly easy video-editing tools to use. When the groups are done, all the films will be shown in class.

Beyond: In the beyond stage, each group will look closer at another groups and discuss how the traditional elements have been kept and also how the dramatization has been modernized. Each group will briefly present their findings out loud in class.

Reflection: In this activity it`s vital that the teacher has knowledge about film and video editing and specifically how to use the recommended video editing tools like imovie and windows moviemaker. Many students might be tech-savvy and familiar with these tools, but not all. It is also important the teacher makes sure that the groups consist of 5 people who work together well, because this project depends on good student cooperation and planning.

Assessment: To assess if the learning objectives are met the teacher will look at their finished movies.


Literature:

Utdanningsdirektoratet. (2013). Læreplan i engelsk (ENG1-03). Accessed from:

https://www.udir.no/kl06/ENG1-03/Hele/Kompetansemaal/kompetansemal-etter-10.-arstrinn

Utdanningsdirektoratet. (2013). Læreplan i norsk (NOR1-05). Accessed from:
https://www.udir.no/kl06/NOR1-05/Hele/Kompetansemaal/kompetansemal-etter-10.-arstrinn