Materials produced in the project

Since this project required its own teaching materials, several resources were produced in order to enable the teachers to put this didactic approach into practice. Thus, an anthology of poems (in English, German and Portuguese) on citizenship was organised and an audiotape with the readings of eighteen poems was produced. A new version of this anthology will be published this year (2006) under the title Our Duty to Speak: Anthology of Poems on Citizenship. However, it will only include compositions written in Portuguese by Brazilian, African, Timorisian and Portuguese authors. The Camões Institute will fund part of the edition.

The reproductions of paintings, sculptures, photos and other works of visual arts that were used in class were downloaded from the Internet and collected in a CD-ROM, which we entitled The Virtual Gallery. In this CD one may find works of artists such as Goya, Van Gogh, Tina Mondotti, Louise Bourgeois, Damien Hirst, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger and Cindy Sherman. Finally, a book with the description of the project and with other information was prepared in 2003. Many of the worksheets, texts and documents used in class are collected there.