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STEPS OF CITIZENSHIP1° Year
“My Ideal Town”
Istituto Comprensivo Camerano2014/2015
We have read Italo Calvino’s
“Maurilia” from “Le città invisibili”
Phase 1 - Interpreting a written document
And focused on “Maurilia”’s features
both in the past and in the present
Phase 2 - Interpreting iconografic sources
Città IdealeGalleria Nazionale delle Marche
Urbino
Città IdealeGemaldegälerie
Berlin
The Ideal CityWalters Art Museum
Baltimora
Features of the
Renaissence Ideal City
Use of perspective
Geometrical patterns
Regular dimensions
Harmony
No people
Phase 3 – Interpreting photographs
Old Camerano
Old Camerano
Old Camerano
Comparing photographs
The old and new
Primary School
Comparing photographs
Old Camerano
and modern
Camerano
Phase 4 and Phase 5 – Data gathering and interpreting implicit and explicit information
A Survey for all the school’s students
a) What’s your favourite place in Camerano?-------------------------------------------------------
b) What’s the place you like less in your town?----------------------------------------------------------
c) Which place would you lke to have in your town?------------------------------------------------------------------
Places we like and don’t like
Positive aspectsNo green area for
free time
No cinema
No theatre
Negative aspects
Nice houses
New schools
No pollution
Phase 6 – To use geographic language and tools
Political map
Types of maps
Physical map
Street map
Blank street map
A blank map of Camerano
GROUPWORK
Each group was given a blank map
to fill in with symbols of
places for our Ideal Town
using a legend
Phase 7 - Presenting worksEach group makes a presentation of their work
to the others
