A Tale of Three Cities: Paris, London and Los Angeles + Dickens Day at Foshay!: Barrios Students--Instructions for Your Projects on Dickens Day!

Dickens Day Activities for Barrios Students:

Dickensian Ambassadors

Who: All Barrios students

Directions:

a. Design and wear a costume (or a t-shirt) inspired by Charles Dickens’ characters or other textual elements in his work, Victorian culture or Victorian-related genres like steampunk. For ideas see links below for inspiration.

b. Wear a noticeable name tag, sandwich board or button that invites conversation about your study of Dickens and Victorian culture. Try to make your name tag both provocative and insightful. Your conversation should consist of Detail/Fact + Significance and Connection—

Sample:

“Ask me about green wallpaper”—>

Lets you talk about the use of arsenic in dyes, how safety precautions were not keeping up with industry, how this is one of many examples of the paradoxes in Victorian lifestyle—obsession with morals and the macabre!

“Ask me about the semi colon”—>

Let’s you talk about how Dickens extended his sentences by adding clauses with the semi colon, cite the example of what the wind did to the leaves, how this is essential to elaborate descriptions of the setting in the novel.

d. Keep track of how many conversations you were able to have that day by gathering signatures on your “Dickens Day Credit Sheet”. Make sure you have a picture of yourself in costume (or get your picture taken) and make sure its uploaded onto our Dickens Day Blog!

Dickensian Gingerbread House Decoration

Who: Health Students only. 10th Grade Barrios Liaison- ________ 12th Grade Barrios Liaison- Maurissa Brown. Will need permission slip for Full Day Participation!

Directions: Choose 3 textual elements (technique, character, idea/theme, symbol, quote etc.) from the Dickensian text you are studying Represent these elements through your decoration of your gingerbread house. Ingredients must be edible.

a. Make a design with a list of ingredients. Include an explanation with quotes.

b. Assemble your ingredients and your artist’s statement (should be typed up and fit in on an index card):

Title:

Inspired by:

Media:

This gingerbread house was inspired by the following textual elements:

I chose to represent the element of…..Dickens writes….I represented it by…Also, I chose to represent the element of…..Dickens writes….I represented it by… Finally, I chose to represent the element of…..Dickens writes….I represented it by…For me, I wanted the viewer (or eater) to come away understanding how Dickens….. (impactful connection to our own world).

Sample:

Mankind Was My Business

Inspired by: Marley and Scrooge’s relationship in A Christmas Carol

Media:

Graham Cracker

Icing

Peppermints

Blue MnMs

This gingerbread house was inspired by the following textual elements: symbolism, key quote and the theme of redemption. I chose to represent the symbol of chains. Dickens writes “…..….” I represented it by using icing to draw a chain border all around the walls. Also, I chose to represent this key quote of Scrooge. Dickens writes….I represented it by… Finally, I chose to represent the theme of…..Dickens writes….I represented it by…For me, I wanted the viewer (or eater) to come away understanding how Dickens….. (impactful connection to our own world).

Dickens Day Headquarters/the Great Victorian Tea Party

Who: Barrios Tech and Finance students. Will need permission slip for Full Day Participation!

Directions: We are sponsoring various projects and activities to engage our school with our study of Dickens and other associated topics for the Tale of Three Cities project. Please join a team for that day to plan your duties, bring materials and more!

Tea Party Team and Docents

Tea Party Activities Docents

*Mural of London Bridge? The city is, was, will be?

*Collage Poem based on Images

*Christmas Carol Read-a-Thon

*Scrooge Outline + First Stave Chalk Festival

*Invention Lightbulb? Make an Invention? Photo Booth? Timeline?

*Top Hat Origami

*T-Shirt Decorations?

*Jeopardy or Scavenger Hunt or?

*Map of London Chalk Festival

*T-Shirt/Face Painting/Wearable Art Decorating Booth

*Dance Lesson?

*Obstacle Course

*Seven Dials Collage Poem? or any other images from his works?

*Victorian Advertising?

Dickens Day Blog

Who: Barrios Tech and Finance students. Will need permission slip for Full Day Participation!

Dickens Day Blog Lead + Team (Photographers/Historians/Bloggers)

*Must take photographs of event and student work, collect photographs through Dickens Day google drive folder, and maintain the blog with updated pictures

Three-City Pop Art Project & Intellectual Graffitti

Who: Barrios Tech and Finance students. Will need permission slip for Full Day Participation!

*Must design logo or stamp, contact/visit participating teachers, help them display student work in appealing manner, "stamp" their art work with our logo:

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the Tale ofThree Cities Pop Art Project +Dickens Day

LOGO

(A short blurb about the assignment would be great--make little mini posters

*Must design and post Dickens Day Posters etc. starting Monday

--Aka Dickens Day Student Director

Who: A Brave Soul. Will need permission slip for Full Day Participation!

Help me make handouts, gather materials, answer questions, etc, etc

Dickens Day Credit Sheet

Permission Slip

Resources

Inventions:

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/homework/victorians/inventiotimeline.html

Steampunk:

http://steampunkdistrict.com/how-to-make-your-own-steampunk-costume/

London:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/how-charles-dickens-saw-london-13198155/?no-ist

General

Victorians_BritishLibrary a great set of links Im using with seniors—detailed, primary sources and also well written

Dickens WebQuest a lesson plan—the most usable I think is the activity based on a web quest to get students to be “experts” on Victorian culture (Fashion, Etiquette, Entertainment, History)—>

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson238/role_cards.html

DickensProject_Resources vetted links to various resources on line

Charles Dickens - Frequently Asked Questions quick and easy one pagers

Dickens Project: Our Mutual Friend more in-depth ideas—studying education, sanitation, advertising, Dickens’ London