Global task: Women who have changed the world.

This entry should have been published before last holidays, but the load of work the last weeks of March for students and teacher made it impossible. As it was planned, a global task about relevant women would be done by our 3º ESO bilingual students and all groups of 1º Bachillerato. However, there would be some differences. Bachillerato students would work mainly about female scientists or Nobel Peace winners, called "Women who have changed the world" whereas ESO students would do it about European suffragists, in an interdisciplinary project with Social Science, which has been called "Mothers of Europe".

Below you can read the indications we gave our Bachillerato students to do their tasks, whose main objective is to help them develop several key competences: digital, social, cultural, learner autonomy and, of course, communicative. Precisely, these research projects or global tasks are considered one of the best type of activities to learn to work in team and develop in an integrated way the skills of reading (investigating, selecting main aspects, summarising), writing (different types of texts: biography, interview, newspaper article...), speaking (oral presentation and interview) and listening (to classmates' presenting their research).

Global Task
As you know on March 8th we commemorate the International Day for Women's Rights, which unfortunately must be still claimed loud and clear as millions of women don't have any in many countries. Besides in western or developed countries, where women have legally the same rights, actually, they can't achieve the same highest social and economic positions of men easily, apart from not being as well known or acknowledged as men or being still abused and killed in hundreds every year.

For that reason, it's still necessary to do serious research about those thousands of women who have worked hard and got important achievements in science, politics, technology, medicine, economics, literature, art, etc. to make this world a better place to live.

In small groups (max. 4 people), you will do a research on one of these women who have contributed to make the world a better place to live. Your research will be presented in a digital presentation including the following parts:
1. Introduction: reason to choose this woman.
2. Her biography (use past tenses and relative clauses whenever possible and do a good personal description with appropriate vocabulary)
3. A fictional interview to her or someone who knew using suitable vocabulary and expressions for this type of dialogues.
4. Her most important achievements.
4. Some quotes from her bibliography or interviews.
5. Your personal opinion after having known her better.
6. You will present your research orally, everyone should speak at least a minute and half.

Final products and results
Here you have links to just a few of the best presentations of our students, but there are many more we will include in a new entry or in the blog of the Co-education Program of our school. 

• Alberto Asenjo (1º D), Iván Donaire y Federico Peña (1ºA)

Hypatia of Alexandria

• Luisa Centeno, María G. Gutiérrez, Lucía Jiménez (1º A) y Pedro J. Aranguez (1ºD)

Clara Campoamor

• Elvira Alcalá, Lourdes Fernández, Andrea Gámez y Pedro Garrido (1º B) 

Malala Yousafaiz

• Marta Alonso, Alicia García y Andrea Redondo

Lise Meitner