1. INSULARITY PROJECT INSULARITY PROJECT I.E.S. FRAY LUIS DE GRANADA

2. Activities for the current course: 2008-2009 The inward islands The inward islands Essay contest (Book Day): “What brings us together, what separates us: insularity as a metaphor” Essay contest (Book Day): “What brings us together, what separates us: insularity as a metaphor” Travelling without moving out of the school Travelling without moving out of the school

3. (Theme 2: Analysis of the European Linguistic diversity and its value) “Travelling without moving out of your school” As far as language is concerned Students have worked on cultural aspects related to the traditions of their places of origin, such as good, history, poetry, literature. They thus focus on the particularity of insularity in our school Students have worked on cultural aspects related to the traditions of their places of origin, such as good, history, poetry, literature. They thus focus on the particularity of insularity in our school

4. Students have worked on poems related to their places of origin. They illustrate and reinterpret the idea of identity and of enriching difference. The poems are selected by the group, they are read, commented in class and shows in the school library, as “poem of the week” to foster the approach of all the students in the school to these small islands of knowledge.

5. We have also scheduled the following activities ►Poetry readings ►Food festivals ►Presentations of the cultural works carried out

6. ►Over the course of the academic year we will complete the Dictionary of Andalusian Dialect, focusing on the different localisms and expressions depending on each of the regions. ►An essay contest (Book Day): “What brings us together, what separates us: insularity as a metaphor”. In this activity we mean to propose the same metaphor that inspires our project, i.e. that of insularity, as an explicit topic for reflection to all our students (except the upper courses), so that the best essays can compete in an essay contest whose results will be made public on April 23rd, 2009

7. “The inward islands” These are activities oriented to approach the question of identity and difference from the geographic and historical points of view These are activities oriented to approach the question of identity and difference from the geographic and historical points of view The first activity analyses the geographic and anthropolotical features of certain counties near Granada, which, for a variety of reasons, constitute what we might call a group of “inward islands” The first activity analyses the geographic and anthropolotical features of certain counties near Granada, which, for a variety of reasons, constitute what we might call a group of “inward islands”

8. “Granada as an island within Andalusia” From the geographical and historical point of view, Granada has always been an island within the Spanish and Andalusian space. The Baetica was a romanized island, and al-Andalus was a cultural island, which illuminated all of Europe as a beam of high culture. The geographic situation of Granada is rather peculiar, since there is a mountain range that runs parallel to the Mediterranean coast, creating thus an island of biodiversity with more than sixty endemic species and a group of animals quite different from the rest of Andalusia. To know Granada as an island involves a journey to the interior of our own selves, in our culture, and folklore, in a rich and different world that has attracted illustrious authors and travellers over the centuries. Topics to be developed The tropical coast The tropical coast Sierra Nevada, an island of biodiversity Sierra Nevada, an island of biodiversity Isolated mountain villages Isolated mountain villages