The City of Ersilla
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Name : _________________________ Class : ________________ “THE CITY OF ERSILIA” Instructions 1.You must create a two page image of the city, landscape, within 2Hr (945am-1145am). The first 20 mins is for ______________________ and the last 10 mins for _________________ and _______________ ______. 2. You must have at least 4 cut outs. All cut outs must be done well. 3. 1 cut out MUST be a coloured background. 4. 1 COMPULSORY cut out MUST be a ___________ ________ . 5. You may use more than 4 images _______ if you have leftovers from the last lessons. Help Guide for the Pop-Up 1. ___________ _______________ ___________ to facing pages. 2. _______________ the rest. 3. Test your pop up by _____________ up the book _____________ . BRAINSTORM 1. Underline 1 special feature of Ersilia. 2. Circle words that you do not know. In Ersilia, to establish the relationships that sustain the city's life, the inhabitants stretch strings from the corners of the houses, white or black or gray or black-and-white according to whether they mark a relationship of blood, of trade, authority, agency. When the strings become so numerous that you can no longer pass among them, the inhabitants leave: the houses are dismantled; only the strings and their supports remain. From a mountainside, camping with their household goods, Ersilia's refugees look at the labyrinth of taut strings and poles that rise in the plain. That is the city of Ersilia still, and they are nothing. They rebuild Ersilia elsewhere. They weave a similar pattern of strings which they would like to be more complex and at the same time more regular than the other. Then they abandon it and take themselves and their houses still farther away. Thus, when traveling in the territory of Ersilia, you come upon the ruins of abandoned cities , without the walls which do not last, without the bones of the dead which the wind rolls away: spiderwebs of intricate relationships seeking a form. UNIT 2 : THE CITY OF DREAMS Lesson 4 : The City of Ersilia
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Transcript of The City of Ersilla
Name : _________________________ Class : ________________
“THE CITY OF ERSILIA”
Instructions1. You must create a two page image of the city, landscape, within 2Hr (945am-1145am).
The first 20 mins is for ______________________ and the last 10 mins for _________________ and _______________ ______.
2. You must have at least 4 cut outs. All cut outs must be done well.3. 1 cut out MUST be a coloured background.4. 1 COMPULSORY cut out MUST be a ___________ ________ .5. You may use more than 4 images _______ if you have leftovers from the last lessons.
Help Guide for the Pop-Up
1. ___________ _______________ ___________ to facing pages. 2. _______________ the rest. 3. Test your pop up by _____________ up the book _____________ .
BRAINSTORM1. Underline 1 special feature of Ersilia. 2. Circle words that you do not know.
In Ersilia, to establish the relationships that sustain the city's life, the inhabitants stretch strings from the corners of the houses, white or black or gray or black-and-white according to whether they mark a relationship of blood, of trade, authority, agency. When the strings become so numerous that you can no longer pass among them, the inhabitants leave: the houses are dismantled; only the strings and their supports remain.
From a mountainside, camping with their household goods, Ersilia's refugees look at the labyrinth of taut strings and poles that rise in the plain. That is the city of Ersilia still, and they are nothing.
They rebuild Ersilia elsewhere. They weave a similar pattern of strings which they would like to be more complex and at the same time more regular than the other. Then they abandon it and take themselves and their houses still farther away.
Thus, when traveling in the territory of Ersilia, you come upon the ruins of abandoned cities , without the walls which do not last, without the bones of the dead which the wind rolls away: spiderwebs of intricate relationships seeking a form.
UNIT 2 : THE CITY OF DREAMSLesson 4 : The City of Ersilia
from: the Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Answer the following questions.
What is your 1 special feature? Write it here.
Why do you particularly like it?Explain with 1-2 sentences.
What kind of background and images would go with the special feature? Write them here.
Why do you think so? Explain.
When you are done with the brainstorm, show Ms Dawn and begin your Dream City #4!After you have finished creating your Ersilia, show Ms Dawn.
Reflection
Please write a short reflection of what you have learnt for yourself today :________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
UNIT 2 : THE CITY OF DREAMSLesson 4 : The City of Ersilia
UNIT 2 : THE CITY OF DREAMSLesson 4 : The City of Ersilia
UNIT 2 : THE CITY OF DREAMSLesson 4 : The City of Ersilia
