II MOVILIDAD DEL PROYECTO ERASMUS+ European Common Roots in a Peer and Intercultural Education”, Cittá di Castello, Italia , 14-19 octubre 2019

Los siguientes alumnos del IES Julio Verne de Bargas, Carlota Sánchez Portal, Elena Villa, José Miguel del Puerto, Julia Serrano, Lucas Sánchez, Pablo Ballesteros, Paula Esteban-Manzanares han participado en la II Movilidad Erasmus+ “European Common Roots in a Peer and Intercultural Education” que ha tenido lugar en Cittá di Castello, Italia, del 14 al 19 de octubre del año en curso.

Allí nos encontramos con seis estudiantes de cada centro participante, el instituto politécnico, ITS “Franchetti Salviani”, que nos acogía en Cittá di Castello, del “Colegiul Economic Ion Ghica” de Targoviste, Rumanía, y la escuela de secundaria, “Mehmet Uzal Sosyal Bilimler Lisesi”de Burdur, Turquía.
El primer día después de un viaje largo, nos recibió en el hotel la coordinadora, doña Rosanna Ofelio. A continuación, todos los alumnos de Turquía, Rumanía y España, nos fuimos a cenar juntos para empezar a conocernos.

A la mañana siguiente fuimos recibidos oficialmente en el ITS Franchetti- Salviani, por la directora, la coordinadora, el profesor Urbano Perucci , y algunos estudiantes. El Instituto Politécnico se extiende en varios edificios. En el primer edificio, el de los alumnos entre 16 y 18 años pasamos la primera parte de la mañana. En el edificio de los alumnos entre 14 y 16 años pasamos la segunda parte, después de ser obsequiados con un café. A los alumnos se les dividió en grupos, guiados por alumnos voluntarios del proyecto para realizar la actividad. Los profesores fuimos acompañados de la coordinadora y del profesor Urbano Perucci.

Nos resultó muy interesante la visita a los talleres, los laboratorios de física y química, la parte de artes gráficas, con ordenadores de última generación, e impresoras 3D.

En el segundo edificio, a unos veinte minutos andando se nos recibió también con mucho cariño y nos hicieron un baile de acogida.

Allí se trabaja la topografía y vimos un simulador de seísmos muy interesante.

Más tarde, fuimos todos a comer juntos a otra escuela.

Por la tarde, estuvimos en la primera ponencia/taller sobre cómo producir un cómic desde una historia dada. “Criterios de composición e ilustración en el cómic”. La impartió un famoso dibujante Andrea Carvagini, Nero, que ha trabajado para la factoría Disney entre otros. Al final se nos pidió trabajar sobre una historia, cómo señalaríamos los momentos más importantes y a partir de allí, empezar a diseñar los dibujos.

Después, algunos alumnos nos hicieron la primera parte de una visita guiada por la ciudad, acompañados de su profesora, Giovanna Mariucci.

Al día siguiente fuimos a visitar un taller tipográfico artesanal, Tipografía Storica Grifani Donati donde don Giovanni Donati continúa la tradición en litografía, estampación tradicional. Fue una lección magistral que no se nos olvidará a ninguno de los asistentes. A continuación, fuimos a ver la colección Burri en el palacio Albizzini. Doña Giovanna Mariucci, nos descubrió este artista de una manera magistral. La proporción aurea nos hizo acordarnos de nuestros compañeros/profesores de dibujo.

Por la tarde, después de comer, nos tocó el segundo taller. Esta vez nos propusieron integrar texto e imagen desde el ordenador, después de explicarnos en qué consiste la relación entre texto e imagen y los programas que se pueden utilizar. Los profesores fueron Mauro Mariotti y Silvia Nucci.

Después, continuamos con la segunda parte de la visita guiada por los estudiantes Erasmus+ con su profesora doña Giovanna Mariucci.

El jueves fuimos a visitar la muestra nacional del Cómic donde se destacaba la obra de Dino Bataglia, famoso dibujante de comics, El ratón Topolino, es una de sus invenciones en el palacio Vitelli. La mañana culminó en la Biblioteca Municipal, en otro maravilloso palacio renacentista, dónde nos recibió la  concejala de Turismo.Por la tarde tuvimos el último taller sobre ilustración. Lo llevó a cabo don Giampaolo Tomassetti, que en una clase combinada teórica y práctica, nos explicó las diferentes formas de ilustración, abstracta, tradicional, combinada. Pusimos en práctica, partir de unos dibujos suyos, nuestra capacidad creativa para ilustrar una historia. Cada grupo de trabajo, mesa, trabajó en un momento de la historia. Al final, los alumnos del encuentro decidieron que las ilustraciones serían una combinación de tradicional y abstracta para el libro a realizar.

Por la tarde tuvimos un poco de tiempo libre, que nuestros alumnos ocuparon en estudiar.

Después de cenar, los alumnos turcos nos hicieron una presentación de las tradiciones e historia de su país a los alumnos rumanos y españoles.

El viernes visitamos por grupos, unas industrias de artes gráficas y litográficas. Seguimos todo el proceso creativo de un libro desde el ordenador, a la plancha de aluminio, a la impresión, a la caja y reparto.

La tarde resultó muy ajustada de tiempo, puesto que fuimos a la colección Burri, situada en un antiguo secadero de tabaco y después tuvimos la clausura y entrega de certificados de asistencia en el ITS Franchetti Salviani. Concluimos el encuentro con una cena de todos los participantes en una de las salas del instituto.

De la descripción hecha se puede deducir que ha sido un viaje muy intenso. No sólo hemos aprendido lo que necesitamos para continuar el proyecto en el que estamos, si no que hemos estado en una ciudad renacentista impresionante, la comunidad escolar del centro nos ha acogido maravillosamente, los alumnos italianos nos han guiado, resuelto dudas cotidianas, y la convivencia intercultural ha sido fructífera. Los alumnos participantes de los diversos países nos han resultado encantadores y muy educados. Nuestros alumnos han brillado por su compromiso con el trabajo, su educación y su saber estar. Han primado los intereses del grupo internacional sobre el suyo. Doña Esther Paule Sastre y Carmen García Beteta, profesora acompañante y coordinadora del proyecto, respectivamente, estamos orgullosas y agradecidas a nuestros alumnos por ello.

 

 

 

• ALLA VAN LEYES
• el Cerro del Bu
• la peña del rey moro y el castillo de san servando

Hoy, 23 de abril, día del libro, en el IES Julio Verne de Bargas, hemos celebrado esta efemérides, poniendo en escena dos de las leyendas que forman parte del Patrimonio Inmaterial de Toledo: “La Virgen de los Alfileritos” y “El pozo amargo”, a cargo de dos grupos de alumnas de 2º de ESO.
En el acto ha participado el alumnado de 2º de ESO.  esde comienzos de curso en la materia de Geografía e Historia se ha trabajado sobre las leyendas de Toledo, con el objetivo de indagar acerca de sus orígenes y buscar el contexto histórico para así relacionarlo con nuestro objeto de estudio. La actividad final nos llevó a Toledo, recorriendo los lugares a los que se refieren dichas leyendas.
Tras una selección se pensó en que sería un buen momento la conmemoración del día del libro para dar a conocer algunas de las leyendas de los grupos ganadores que, a su vez, han recibido un premio del AMPA, a quien queremos mostrar nuestro agradecimiento.

 

Los estudiantes de 2º de ESO prepararon dramatizaciones sobre las leyendas toledanas y las representaron en las calles de Toledo. Cada uno de los seis profesores del Dpto. de Geografía e Historia fue con su grupo por una ruta diferente que incluía seis leyendas. Seis leyendas se representaban a la vez en algún rincón de Toledo donde hubieran tenido lugar. Las dramatizaciones se grabaron en vídeo y se han elegido las tres mejores, por la simpatía de la adaptación (enhorabuena a Aleksandra Mazharova, Elena Lorente, Mercedes Benito, Elisa Fraile, Leyre Martínez), por la sobriedad de la representación y su adecuada contextualización histórica (enhorabuena a Marta de Alcalá, Sofía Rodríguez, Lucía Raulea, Ángela Esteban), y por su integración acertada de cuadros rápidamente cambiantes con participación multitudinaria y también simpática en la adaptación (enhorabuena a Alejandra Bartolomé, Alexandra Dobrin, Sergio Bartolomé, Isam Chabou, Elia García, Irene Gutiérrez). Finalmente, el día 23 de abril, con motivo del día del Libro, dos compañías teatrales volvieron a representar su obra ante el resto de estudiantes de 2º de la ESO y fueron premiadas con un detalle del AMPA por ello.

 

Enlaces a los videos:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1APTznD9OVXTGyleCETxBQtT5JR4aREjZ

Dissemination activities at IES Julio Verne, Bargas, Spain.

Workshops at IES Julio Verne.

When we finished our meeting on November 16th we hold some lessons given by our students who took part in the meeting with their partners in the project and with their schoolmates at school (4ºESO A/C Bilingual Project, and 4ºESO B/D/E Erasmus students)

The students who carried out these dissemination activities where Lucas Sánchez, Carlota Sánchez- Portal, Leire Parages, Wessal Nacceur, Elena Villa, Julia Serrano.

On the first stage they watched the presentations we saw in the meeting, and they got a taste of the activities we did. They shared with some partners what they had done.

 

Secondly, they attended a writing workshop, where they learnt how to write a legend or a story. They tried to transfer to their peers their skills in writing.

 

Thirdly all of them wrote some stories that can be read in the file section.

We have had a nice time and what is most important they have involved in the activities and have learnt how to write a story.

Now, we are putting into practice what we have learnt! So next stages are storytelling for 1ºESO and 2ºESO and a didactic unit based in writing stories for 3ºESO.

 

 

EL CRISTO DE LA VEGA

A Good Judge, a Better Witness

Lucas Sánchez and Julia Serrano

There were two lovers in Toledo: Diego Martínez and Inés de Vargas. They had had sex before marriage. Ines´s father did know it, so he wanted them to get married. He observed that he must leave for Flanders, but as soon as he returned, within a month, he would married her.

Ines, not very sure of the intentions of Diego, asked him if he could swear it, in front of the image of the Christ of la Vega. Diego resisted but finally in a loud voice and touching the feet of the Christ, he swears that when he returns from the war, he will marry her.

«A day passed and another day, a month and another month and a past year there was, but Diego did not return».

Ines broken from so much crying, without hope, was waiting in vain for her lover’s return. Every day she prayed to the Christ, asking for Diego’s return, because nobody else but he could understand her and she only found support and comfort in him.

Two years passed and the wars in Flanders ended; but Diego did not return. However, Ines, despaired, always waited with faith and patience for the return of her beloved to return the honour he had taken with him. Every day she went to a viewpoint, waiting to see Diego appearing by the horizon.

One of those days, after three years had passed, she saw in the distance a troop of men who were coming near the Cambron’s gate.

Her heart was nervous because she saw the group approached the door. As she arrived, the group of riders passed through.  Her heart skipped a beat when she recognized Diego, because he was the knight who, accompanied by seven spearmen and ten pawns, led the group. She gave a shout, calling him; but Diego rejected her, pretending not to know her, and while she fell unconscious, he, spurred his horse and lost himself in the narrow, dark streets of Toledo.

What had made Diego change? Possibly it was his ascending, because of simple soldier, was promoted to captain and to his return the king appointed knight to him and it took to his service. Pride had transformed him and made him forget his oath of love, denying everywhere that he promised to marry that woman.

Ines did not stop coming to Diego, sometimes with entreaties, sometimes with threats and many more with tears; but the heart of the young captain was a hard stone and continually rejected it.

In his desperation, he only saw a way out of the situation in which he found himself,’ although it could be a danger, since it was to give public light to his conflict and dishonour; but in reality, the murmuring in the city did not stop and everybody talked about his case. Taking the decision, she went to the Governor of Toledo, who at the time was Pedro Ruiz de Alarcón, and asked for justice. After listening to her complaints, the old dignitary asked for some witnesses to corroborate her claim, but she had no one.

Don Pedro brought Diego Martínez to his court and when asked, he denied having married Ines. There were no witnesses and nothing the governor could do. It was the word of one against that of the other.

At the moment when Diego was going to leave with a haughty gesture, satisfied after Don Pedro gave him permission to do so, Inés asked to be stopped, because he remembered having a witness. When the young woman said who that witness was Christ, everyone was paralyzed with amazement. The silence became deep in the court and, after a moment of expectation and a brief consultation of Don Pedro with the judges who accompanied him in the administration of justice, he decided to go to the Christ of la Vega to ask for his statement.

When the sun fell they all approached the meadows where the hermitage is located. A confused troop of people accompanied the procession, for the news of the event had spread like wildfire through the city. In front were Don Pedro Ruiz de Alarcón, Don Ivan de Vargas, his daughter Inés, the scribes, the guards, monks, nobleman and the common people.

All entered the cloister; four candles and a lamp were lit before the Christ and they kneeled themselves on their knees to pray in a low voice. Then a notary came forward to the image and having the two young people on both sides, Ines and Diego, aloud, demanded Jesus Christ as a witness:

«Do you know that one day, to your divine plants, he swore to Inés to marry her?»

After a few moments of expectation and silence, the Christ lowered his right hand, unclasped it from the wood and put it on the judicial decree, opened his lips and exclaimed: “Yes, he swore it”. After that, Ines and Diego left their lives and they enter in monasteries, to take a religious life.

 

AEl Cristo de la Vega, play

 

 

The well of the bitter water

There are various versions of this story, but the essence of the legend goes like this: There was a Christian man, Fernando, and a Jewish woman, Raquel, the daughter of Samuel ha-Levi, that were head-over-heels in love with each other.^[2] Every night when the church bells rang ten, Fernando would jump over the walls of Raquel’s family garden and sit with his love on the edge of the well. But one night, the father of Raquel found out about the forbidden love of his daughter and the next night he sent an assassin to murder Fernando. Every night afterwards the heartbroken Raquel would sit where she used to with her lover, while her tears flowed into that sad well. One night, Raquel saw the image of her love in the water and so she jumped inside the well to be with him.^[3] Today, there is a plaque in the square of that legendary well that reads, «Las lágrimas que el recuerdo, añoranza del amado causaron en una joven toledana, amargaron las aguas de este pozo”. (The tears of the memory, longing for the beloved caused in a young Toledan girl, makes the waters of this well bitter.)

 

ACTIVITY

IN GROUPS OF 8/4 PEOPLE

READ THE LEGEND

EXPAND THE STORY

All of you must agree on the age of the story, 14^th Century, 18^th Century, 20^th century, nowadays and clothes and words according to the age.

1. Two students Set the scene, some images from the internet can help

Describe the place, narrator.

Characters in the story.

1.  Two students. Rachel, describe her, her clothes, her complexion, her personality

What does she say?

1. Two students. Fernando, describe him, his clothes, his complexion, his personality

What does he say?

1. Two students. Samuel ha Levi, describe him, his clothes, his complexion, his personality

What does he say?

You can use internet to research

When you have all of this, write a play based on the original legend.

Rehearse the play and perform it in front of your partners.

You are going to be assessed:

-Reading. You should know what you are going to do

-Interpersonal skills

-Writing. Verbal tenses, vocabulary, use of language

-Oral performance (speaking and listening)

Your partners will give you a mark for your oral performance.

 

 

The well of the bitter water

In the 18th Century, in an ordinary forest of Toledo, there was a well very special. The forest was far away from the city. It was a quiet place where in the night people could see the sky full of stars. There a Jewish woman, the daughter of Samuel ha Levi, called Raquel who always goes here to find her peace.

 

Fernando: – Hello! What are you doing here? he said.

Raquel: – Hi! I’m looking at the sky. I love to do this at night.

Fernando: – Me too, but I’ve never seen you here before. My name is Fernando.

Raquel: – Nice to meet you! I’m Raquel. I’m very glad that you are here. Now I won’t be alone.

 

After they have met, they always stay together and started to fall in love with each other. One day, when she came back home, her father was very angry:

 

Samuel ha Levi: – Where have you been all this time? he said.

Raquel: – I’m sorry. I have had something to do.

Samuel ha Levi: – Don’t lie to me! I saw you with a young man.

 

After their quarrel, Samuel, her father, decided to follow her and kill her boyfriend. He saw that they are together and shot him.

 

Samuel ha Levi: – Take your hands off my daughter! You will never see before! he said while he was hitting the trigger.

Raquel: – Let him! I want Fernando in my life! In that moment she started crying.

 

After he was shot, he fell off into the well. In that moment, Raquel was very depressed and she jumped into the well to be with him under the eyes of her father.

 

Samuel ha Levi: – No, my only daughter… Why have you done this?

 

He was so desperate and he decided to take his life. Today, there is a plaque in the plaza of that legendary well.

  

 

Details:

Characters:

Raquel: short, curve, young and rich lady with a big and expensive dress;

green eyes, brown hair;

shy, happy, funny.

 

Fernando: pour, adventurous, young, strong man;

long hair, handsome, tall, brown eyes, black hair;

 

Samuel ha Levi: old, fat and rich man;

selfish, protective with his only daughter

                           

Tudorache Angelica

Sukru Kirsan

Mancini Flavia

Julia Serrano

THE KISS

By Carlota Sánchez- Portal

 

This legend happened at the beginning of the 21th century, when some French soldiers came for an expedition to Toledo.

Toledo is placed in the middle of Spain and it is an old town with castles, cathedrals and it’s surrounded by old walls.

When they entered the city of Toledo, the soldiers couldn’t find a place to stay, so they decided to go to a nearby church in order to rest.

The soldiers were led by the captain, he was full of qualities of a leader, he was brave, smart and authoritarian, but on the other hand he was arrogant and superficial, he was wearing a special military uniform with some shiny grades on his shoulders.

The captain was in lead of an elite troupe of soldiers who were brave, loyal, respectful and strong. The soldiers were wearing a common military equipment.

The church where they stopped was called “San Pedro Martir”and it was a convent of enormous dimensions, organized around three courtyards: the “Real”, the “Silencio” and the “Naranjos”.

While the soldiers were sleeping in the night, the captain saw a beautiful, pale, blonde haired lady with blue eyes who was wearing a long black dress and she also had a gold pendant in which there was a picture of a man.

The next morning when all the soldiers woke up, the captain announced the following:

-I saw the most beautiful women that I could ever imagine.

-When did you see her and where, captain?

-She’s located at the bottom of the tombstone of a warrior.

-Can we see her, please? ~ the soldiers said.

 

-Of course, we’ll go there tonight.

At the night, after a few glasses of French champagne they all agreed to go at the tombstone. When they got there, the captain said:

-Look at this beautiful lady!

The soldiers were fascinated by her beauty…

Because of the captain’s drunkenness, he threw the glass of wine on the warrior’s coffin and afterwards he tried to kiss the lady, but when he got too close to her, the warrior raised an arm and hit the captain’s face, leaving him on the floor with his face full of blood.

 

 “THE KISS”, an updated version

 

This legend happened at the beginning of the 21th century, when some French militaries came for an expedition to Toledo.

Toledo is placed in the middle of Spain and it is an old town with castles, cathedrals and it’s surrounded by old walls.

When they entered the city of Toledo, the soldiers couldn’t find a place to stay, so they decided to go to a nearby church in order to rest.

The soldiers were led by the captain, he was full of qualities of a leader, he was brave, smart and authoritarian, but on the other hand he was arrogant and superficial, he was wearing a special military uniform with some shiny grades on his shoulders.

The captain was in lead of an elite troupe of soldiers who were brave, loyal, respectful  and strong. The soldiers were wearing a common military equipment.

The church where they stopped was called “San Pedro Martir”and it was a convent of enormous dimensions, organized around three courtyards: the “Real”, the “Silencio” and the “Naranjos”.

While the soldiers were sleeping in the night, the captain saw a beautiful, pale, blonde haired lady with blue eyes who was wearing a long black dress and she also had a gold pendant in which there was a picture of a man.

The next morning when all the soldiers woke up, the captain announced the following:

-I saw the most beautiful women that I could ever imagine.

-When did you see her and where, captain?

-She’s located at the bottom of the tombstone of a warrior.

-Can we see her, please? ~ the soldiers said.

 

-Of course, we’ll go there tonight.

At the night, after a few glasses of French champagne they all agreed to go at the tombstone. When they got there, the captain said:

-Look at this beautiful lady!

The soldiers were fascinated by her beauty…

Because of the captain’s drunkenness, he threw the glass of wine on the warrior’s coffin and afterwards he tried to kiss the lady, but when he got too close to her, the warrior raised an arm and hit the captain’s face, leaving him on the floor with his face full of blood.

 

Group 4: Islam Moudaber and 3 others

  AN EXPERIENCE

At the beginnings of XX century, in France, there was a boy called Luka who wanted to fight with another boy. They were in the main square. Then an oldest woman came with her stick, slowly, looking all the children, the houses, people talking, … But she saw how Luka began to fight with the other guy. So, she ran away until she came where these two boys were and started to threaten them with her stick. Lucrecia, that is the name of the oldest woman, did not like the violence in youngest people; so she began to talk to Luka.

• You must have a good behaviour, because if not, you are going to be in prison and believe me it is horrible. You are sick all time and people hate you very much. It is not a good life. If you behave like that, fighting all time and being a bad boy, you will go there. So be careful! – said Lucrecia
• OOOOH! I am sorry about that. I do not know that life was this way in prison- answered Luka
• OH my dear! Life is hard itself. But if you have a good mind it will be easier.
• From today, I am going to be a very good boy, helping all people and studying a lot.
• That’s my boy. Well if you want, like an award, I am going to pay you an orange juice glass. Do you like it?
• Yes, I like it so much. Thank you. But you did not tell me your name.
• My name is Lucrecia, Lu for friends. HAHAHA

In this way, Lucrecia won a young friend and they talk about very different things from their times.

The advice of this story is “listen to old people, they have lived for a long time so they can help you”.

 

 THE LAST WITCH

Legend by Patricia Méndez Muñoz 4A

 

Long time ago, in the beautiful English kingdom of Kharmouth, lived a young girl named Judith, who caught all kind of looks by men and women due to her big emerald eyes accompanied by a hair as dark as the night. She worked as a seamstress, but it was a sham, because Judith was the only witch who remained alive from her coven, after the slaughter of all her family at the stake twelve years ago, when she was just an innocent six year old girl.

One morning, while she was walking alone in the forest that was near the Kingdom, the young witch heard a great snort of a horse, which caught her attention. Judith was a quite curious person so she decided to take a look. She couldn’t believe what her eyes saw, it was the handsome Prince Harry, who lay fainted on the floor with a horrendous wound on his head. Judith, very worried, helped him thanks to her spells and she managed to heal and wake him up.

Prince Harry, who was stunned because of the fall and the unfortunate blow, thanked the beautiful girl and gave her a kiss in the hand, as any gentleman would have done in that situation. Judith, very blushed because of the act, looked at him with that lovely green eyes and it was at that moment, when Harry fell madly in love with the witch.

Both returned to Kharmouth mounted on the royal white horse and when going through the market, all the villagers that were present began to exclaim and applaud euphorically after the arrival of Harry together the gorgeous lady with emerald eyes. They arrived at the castle and went to meet King Edward, who was extremely ill also on his deathbed.

The King, at first, didn’t approve the sudden relationship but, after seeing the brightness of his only son’s eyes looking at Judith and talking about her, he was moved and decided to grant the marriage on the new couple.

Judith, sure of herself, told her fiancé about her past and witchcraft and he reacted in the best possible way giving her a peak in her lips, implying that he didn’t care if she was a witch, since Harry had fallen in love with how she was, not because who she was. But she, willing to give everything for the love of her life, revoked her magic in case that could cause a problem in the near future.

The days passed and the expected wedding was celebrated to commemorate the new union but sadly the king passed away that same night leaving the newlyweds in charge of the throne of the Kingdom of Kharmouth.

Judith became pregnant and after the passage of months she gave birth to a beautiful girl with big green eyes, like hers, and looking deeply in them she felt that the witch legacy hadn’t finished yet.

 

The Wisdom Tree

Julia Serrano

4ºA

 

Many years ago, in March 1918, a very special boy was born. His name was Pedro and he was born in the city of Albacete, well, in a small town in Albacete to be exact. He belonged to a family of witches and wizards, but he did not know it. Albacete was a very quiet and lonely place, it was surrounded by a big forest full of trees and vegetation. Pedro was an intelligent and ambitious boy, he was small but energetic and he was running all the time.

When Pedro was about 12 years old, he went to the forest to investigate, as he usually did when he had nothing to do. However, this day was not like the others, for some unknown reason he decided to take other path different from the one he used to take. When this path ended, he caught an interesting rock that he saw on the floor. Suddenly, when he put his head up, he saw an enormous beautiful tree with a tree behind it. He went day past day to visit it and finally he discovered that this was a wisdom tree because the most he went there the wiser he became. Pedro never told the path to arrive to this tree and now that he is dead, no one knows where it is.

 

Legend, Love in Rome

By Soumaya, Lucía, Rubén, Samuel and Carlota

 

This story occurs in Rome, 18th century and it is a love story between a young boy called Bryan and an old woman called Dora.

Once upon a time, in the city of Rome lived Bryan and Dora, but they did not know about the existence of the other. One day, while Bryan was walking around Romanian streets, an old woman was asking for help because a thief had stolen her bag. Bryan immediately run to catch that man, and finally recovered the bag. Dora was so grateful to him that later, they went to take a cup of tea. Little by little they met each other, Dora was a bit old, but Bryan did not mind that, and he fell in love with her. Dora who had no feelings, did whatever she wanted with him, and one day, she wanted to prove his love and told him to recover a ring which had stayed in a famous lake for three years. What Bryan did not know was that in that lake there were currents that have killed lots of people throughout the history.  But Bryan accepted that.

Dora stayed at her home while Bryan was recovering his ring, not knowing what would happen with that good boy. At night, when Dora was waiting for him to know if he had her ring, he did not arrive at home, so she decided to go to sleep.

While she was sleeping, she heard some noises, and she decided to investigate where those came from. Suddenly, when she was walking around her home, she began to bleed from her eyes, nose and ears. The next morning, Bryan arrived at home, and found Dora on the floor, she began to cry, and he died next to her.

 

 

The missing dogs

Miguel Colino García

4ºA

Instituto Julio Verne de Bargas

Long time ago, a small town existed on the way that goes from Bargas to Olías. My grandfather told me that, one night, when he was young, all the dogs in this town disappeared. It was the 6^th of January of 1963. Nobody was able to give an explanation for this strange event.

Nowadays, this small town is deserted, but people still say that they can hear the howl of the disappeared dogs every 6^th of January.

Last Thursday it was January the 6^th. My friend Hugo and I went to that place to verify if the story was true or not. We couldn´t hear any unusual noise for hours. But at 3am we started hearing the howls. Maybe it was only our imagination, who knows. The only thing that I can be sure about is that it was terrifying.

THE PROMISE

Jose Miguel del Puerto

4ºA/C

In the times where the catholic kings ruled in Spain, there were two people talking together in a beautiful garden in Toledo.

Pedro and Margarita, they loved each other as the most. In that moment, the pretty girl was crying because Pedro had to go to the war, as he was strong and a very good soldier. He was the best of the army.

Pedro was a simple soldier, but the first and most important captain of the army needed him and his skills for the fight against the Muslims, in Andalusia. Pedro was very disappointed with the fact of going to the war because he couldn’t see his lover crying. Before leaving Toledo, Pedro promised Margarita that he would come back and then, they would get married. And Pedro gave Margarita a ring, as a symbol of his promise.

A few days after the soldier gave the new to Margarita, the army of Toledo left the city and she went to see them. The whole city assisted to see the event. Unfortunately, the girl saw his lover leading the army, as he was the first captain! He was not a simple soldier.

During the war in Andalusia, something strange appeared many times to save Pedro’s life during the fight. It was a death hand with a ring what saved him. When Pedro was in extreme and difficult situations and when he needed help, it appeared. Then, the captain knew that the girl he loved had died because of an excess of sadness and his hand wouldn’t rest in peace until Pedro would come back and would make the promise true. Finally, thanks to the death hand´s interventions, the soldier came back, and he fulfilled the promise. The whole body of the girl could rest in peace, forever.

Tomás Correa

4ºA/C

IES Julio Verne de Bargas

Since Peter was 15 years old, he had seen and heard things that are not normal.

All started when Peter’s granny died on 15^th of October, he wanted to communicate with her, but he didn’t know how to do it.

One night, he was talking with his friend Fred, when he told him that he had a Ouija’s table and Peter could talk with his granny. The next night, Fred went to Peter’s house with his Ouija’s table. Peter was not 100% sure about that it could work but Fred said that he used it to talk with his mum (because she had died too), so he began the ritual to call the spirit of Peter’s granny.

Suddenly the lights started to turn on and off, the cupboards started to move and something began to communicate with them by the Ouija’s table.

The following day, Peter’s mother went downstairs to wake up Peter and Fred, but they weren’t there.

And that’s how nobody has seen them since the 16^th of October

 

Legend, the courageous hunter

Iván Plaza

IES Julio Verne, Bargas

 

In a village, near to a forest a hunter went hunting, because there was a monster that destroyed and killed everything that wanted to be inside the forest. The hunter was quickly saw by the people of the village, their eyes were judging the stranger because in that part of the world is not usual to see people wearing black clothes from head to foot, so people were interested in him. He arrived at a bar, where he saw drunk people over the tables, music and a barman. Only being seen by the barman the hunter was thinking about this question, how he was going to seek for a monster that had never been seen, just noises and a shadow inside the forest.

The stranger began to talk:

– Hi, I’m looking for information about the strange creature.

– A hunter I see, well there isn’t much information, only the little bit that you sure know, but if you are interested in the creature you should talk with Ronald, I heard that he and more men are going to go to the forest.

 

The next morning, after talking to Ronald about the forest, they went into it. Inside the forest they looked for the beast without any hope to find it after hours, when a scream was heard, and all the group ran near it. They saw that the beast was a bear of four meters long who died because of a poisoned seed.

Since then, we all know that people can’t trust in rumours and in the fear of others