photo stories

Love

"Love-the root of peace" by B. Franklin alumna Manizha Jumaeva Love is the root of peace, friendship, family and harmony .And St. Valentine’s Day is filled with such atmosphere. And for more development and extension the atmosphere of peace and friendship we Manizha Jumaeva alumna of Benjamin Franklin’12 and Zuhro Tolibovna an English teacher took initiative jointly to do some activities with «English club “of our school. On February 14th we spent several at school #2 with 23 members of “English club doing some activities which considered to be both educational and fun devoted to St. Valentine’s Day. First we’d had discussion about origin of this Holiday and it’s meaning to us currently. Fortunately the school-children had sense about it. After that we debated on the theme “what is love?” reading labels of “love” gums. Of course answers we different like these ones“Friendship, support, family, care , share” and so on. Then we had another activity “find words.”It was kind of puzzle game with inclusion of St. Valentine’s Day words like” Valentine, cupid, heart, love ,card” and so on which we prepared beforehand and the task of pupils was to put words in order. It was both logical and fun assignment which immediately focused students ‘attention on it. Then we share with students touching stories about love and life. the student listened to us attentively and condole every hero of story ,which was obvious by the debate that the had about each story. Then we conducted “quiz” section which kept questions about St.Valentine’Day and it gave pupils to work in pair discussing questions. Then we had interesting and joyful games like «The sweetest kiss» the girls with blinded eyes should kissed a heart had been drawn in the poster, «firm persuasion” it was kind of imaginary work one boy persuaded three girls to have a date with him by paying compliments to them and the smile of girls meant consent. Really it was so fun that everyone in class burst in laugh. Another funny game was”say and kiss”the students looking to each other had announced one thing on his or her external didn’t guessing that the should kiss what they”ve said. Three other games were «trust me “find your pair” and “chair game. In conclusion I want to say the goal of this project was to extend the understanding of students about this holiday, peace and love ,to improve their English, to improve the skills of working in pair and in team, widen their imagination. We took great pleasure and learnt a lot from each other.

Photojournalism workshop in our school

On the 2nd and 3rd of February school #1 hosted Photojournalism 2.0 for 5 teachers and 15 students from schools # 1 and 2 in Sarband town. In these two days we learned basic camera skills, taking photos, principles of Photojournalism and how to write Photo Stories. It was very useful for us. Specifically in day 1, students and teachers learned about what are photojournalism and its principles and ethics. Students were introduced school photojournalism and how to create school newsletter. Trainers used all materials which they got from training. A special guest Vali Berdi the editor of from local news paper ‘ Nuri Sarband” was invited to our training to talk about how to write articles and he shared with great pleasure some of his experience in the field of journalism. His speech was very important for students they got notion about photojournalism professions and its advantages and disadvantages. Mr. Berdi also discuss about some norms and ethics of photojournalism professions. He gave them two great examples to discuss Mr Berdi promised to help students to edit their school newsletter. Most importantly; they learned basic rules of how to write photo stories and how to edit them with 7 ways of editing. Students also learned basic knowledge of how to use digital cameras and how to resize photos in MS Picture Manager. On the second part of the training trainers demonstrated sessions such as what is news and how to write short news and trainers identifies the tool Upside-down Pyramid and they encouraged students to use this tool to write their articles. Other materials also were used as how to write photo essays. On the day two students and teachers were introduced with iEARN web page and opening accounts and joining to World Youth News.The second day was very fruitful and full of practice. Trainers promoted iEARN web page and its projects. First, students shared their opinions about two great iearn projects we participated such as SUE ( school Uniform Exchange and folk tale project. The result of this folk tale project was that we published our Tajik folk tales in English. Students shared their experience.