NEWS FROM THE DRAMA CLASS IN MOLDE

It will soon be summer and June 19 is the last day at school for all students in Norway. At our school there is a tradition of having a party for all students, staff and parents. This years drama class will perform a drama about two cowboys who are arguing about the same woman and where one cowboy challenge to a duel. As the challenging cowboy is preparing to shoot, something happens that makes them resolve the conflict in a peaceful way.

The drama class are looking forward to preform this show for the rest of the school.

Drama Class

"One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world."

"One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world."

These words come from Malala Yousafzai, the girl who faced violence and intimidation with a peaceful message.  

Students from four classes at our school have learned about the 15 year old girl from Pakistan that were shot by the Taliban for her fight for girls' right to education. Who is Malala, how could an ordinary girl find the courage to fight for freedom Taliban took from her people? How are her parents, what was it like growing up as a girl in Pakistan, how was life after the critical incident that nearly killed her? These questions we tried to find answers to, in order to understand the story of Malala.  

When we were at Erasmus + meeting in Ostrava, we tried to solve a task where every stone had a letter. By putting together the letters in the right way, we received a sentence. This we did in our classroom with the text: Give your opinion, yes to freedom of expression.

Lessons in Erasmus + theme - Creaiting Peace

Here is a brief summary of the teaching of this subject we have had this winter here in Norway. In this first session we looked at four main areas.

 

Historical retrospect on 2nd World War:

• A conflict between neighbours in Europe with various alliances

• The reason for the war with economic decline, unemployment, growing anti-Semitism and belief in the German superpower

• Norwegian heavy water sabotage - delaying the process of developing nuclear weapons.  Further reading here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage
This winter it has been shown a new TV series about this action that has been very popular.

• The creation of UN rules of war, dilemmas and consequences

Conflicts of national character:

• Alta action, a conflict between ethnic groups, conservationists, the politics on the left side in Norwegian and the government. The conflict revolved around whether to expand or preserve untouched nature.

• Political games, civil disobedience and conflict resolution

Religious conflicts related to freedom of expression:

• Use of violence and threats

• Terror

• The attack on Charlie Hebdo and freedom of speech in Paris, a French, satirical weekly magazine

Conflicts at school:

• Various conflicts between pupils and adults

• Roleplaying

• Conflict resolution and strategies