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Category 3 Silver award

  • Title :
  • Subject :
    Literature
  • Publisher :
  • Country :
    Poland
  • Evaluation :
    • The material helps to develop analytical and interpretation skills, the ability to form and express individual opinions and with the help of these, to understand art and culture.
    • Literary texts are always presented in context, together with well-chosen other texts and an impressive range of works of art, from visual arts (paintings, sculptures, posters, films, comic books) to music and videos of plays.
    • Although the material itself follows a chronological order, the topics expand over various eras and art forms to cover universal issues that a teenager can relate to.
    • The material achieves a very engaging balance in the representation of culture both in the classical/contemporary and the classical/popular dimension.
    • Some tasks require teamwork that develops the ability to work in groups, to assign roles, make plans together, share responsibility and negotiate with others.
    • The book's integrated approach of combining literature, language and culture is much appreciated. The organization of content into 4 main thematic units allows for the combining of a chronological and a topical approach, and for presenting literary texts in broader sociological and cultural contexts.
    • The great variety of literary texts, authors and contextual references promotes a multicultural approach and successfully brings together Polish, European and world literature and cultures.
    • Each literary text is accompanied with a great variety of questions and tasks aimed at developing the student's cognitive, social and emotional skills. Students are encouraged to expressed their views and opinions and discuss them with peers. The book also includes suggestions for more elaborate tasks and projects in pairs and in groups.
    • The book successfully integrates 'traditional' literary textual genres with 'modern' media. Tasks invite students to use a variety of Internet sources and also to write and develop their own Internet pages, blogs, YouTube videos etc.
    • There is a good variety of forms for presenting information as well as a variety of learning tasks.
    • Different forms of art (literature, theatre and cinema) are successfully related to one another. It is good that students are often invited to express their own opinions.
    • Students' critical thinking is encouraged by presenting different perspectives (knights and Mohammad Omar (p. 74), Romeo and Juliet and John Paul II (p. 161)).
    • There are many reproductions of interesting and relevant paintings even in the part of the book which concentrates on grammar.