Monday, 11 March 2013

Women's International Day


On 8th March we celebrated the Women's International Day. Here are the biographies you have written about some very relevant and interesting women. Read them all as a tribute to those magnificent women so often forgotten by History.


VALENTINA TERESHKOVA

She was the firt woman to travel into space.She is Russian. She traveled aboard the spacecraft Vostk 6 in 1963. She was tenty-six years old. Her nickname was Chaika. She had bad behaviour into spacecraft and the boss os expedition did not allow to drive spacecraft. she has a daughter.
she is now doctor.


CLARA ZETKINClara Zetkin was born on 5th July 1857 in Sajonia (Germany). She married twice and she had two children. She was a teacher and a politician.
She fougt for women´s rights as a important member of a lot parties, committees, foundations and associations.
She was the leader of the new Women´s Office "SPD" and the president of Reichstag, she published the newspaper "Equality" and she decided the first "International Women´s Day" on 8 March 1910 because 129 womens died in a fire in a factory of New York one year before.
She exiled to Zúrich, to Paris and to theSoviet Union for her work and her ideas and she was arrested several times during the war.
She died on 20th June 1933 in Moscú (URSS) when she was 75 years old.


Paloma Martín 1ºG


MARIA EVA DUARTE PERON 1919-1935

She was born in the village Los Toldos Buenos Aires in 1919. She was the youngest of five children. They were a poor family.
In 1935 she went looking for work to Buenos Aires then she began working at the theatre and three years later she began working in films too.

 She bought a house in the Posadas street and she began working with the unions and fight for right of women.  It was the beginning of her political career.
She met Juan Peron in January 1944. Five months later they lived together in the street Posadas. Juan was a politician and was imprisioned. 
She brought thousands of people to get their liberacion after that they were married.

In 1946 Juan Peron was eleced president of Argentina.
She always worked for the woman with her husband
She was the first to participe in politics
Women can vote.
She founded de Female Peronist Party
She created the  Eva Peron Foundation.

She wrote some books before falling ill. She died at 20,25 hours 26th July 1952 when she was 33.
The time always was remenbered for the Argentinians and her body was preserver so here begin another history.  

Antonio García 1ºF


Hypatia of Alexandria

The mathematican and philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria was the daugther of the mathematican Theon Alexandrius.
She was born in 370 b.C (before Christ)
She was educated in Athenas and Italy.
She was one of the first  scientists women in history. She studied the Universe.
She was a teacher of mathematics . She had a lot pupils. She taught maths to studends using modern methods.
She was the inventor of hydrometer.
She played sports every day because se thought it was important to cultivate the body and mind.
Her works disappeared. Some are preserved in the library of Alexandria.
She was killed accuse
d of being against the ideas Christian.
Maribel Lasanta 1ºG
OLYMPE DE GOUGES


Olympe de Gouges was born in 1748. Her name was Marie Gouze. She was from France. Her father was a butcher and her mother was the daughter of a cloth merchant. In 1765 she married Louis Aubry. It wasn´t a marriage of love. Her husband died a year later. In 1970 she moved to Paris with her son, Pierre, and took the name of Olympe de Gouges.


In 1780, after the French Revolution  the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen was proclaimed. Women weren´t recognized as citizens with rights.
She was a writer, playwrighter and political activist. She wrote a Declaration of the Rights of Women and of the citizenship  in 1971. It claimed equal rights between men and women.
She died in 1973. She was executed by guillotine after a trial in which she was representing herself.
Mª Carmen Cruces 1ºG


The wizard behind a curtain.
She was born in Serbia in 1846 and died 1922. Her name was Mileva Maric,
She was an amazing student. She studied mathematics, physics and passed with the best note and she was accepting in a school only for men.
She was the first woman at that school. She also studied Medicine.  
She married a famous scientist and worked side by side with him.
Only few people knew that when her partner showed his work at the Scientific Society, he getting divorce to Maria. He attributed the work to him himself.
She died poor and forgotten.
Wow, I forgot that she was Einstein’s wife.
Antonio Marina 1ºF




Thursday, 7 March 2013

I am a Woman - Helen Reddy

I Am Woman - Helen Reddy

8th March - International's Women Day

International Women's Day is on March 8. Here you have some activities to do about this day.

Pre-Task Activity

You are going to watch a video about International Women's Day, 2010.

Can you predict what the answers will be to the questions below? Decide which answers you think are correct.
Question 1
What percentage of food in developing nations is produced by women
a) 25-30%
b) 40-50%
c) 60-80%
Question 2
True or false? Women control $4 trillion dollars in worldwide assets
a) true
b) false
Question 3

In what percentage of households are women the breadwinners (main wage earners)?

a) 1 out of 2 households

b) 1 out of 3 households

c) 1 out of 4 households

Task 1
Now watch this video about International Women's Day 2010, to see how many answers you guessed correctly.




How many answers did you get right?

Did any of the answers surprise you?

Task 2

On March 7, 2010, a UK-based newspaper called The Independent published a poll of 100 British women who, arguably, have done the most to shape the world we live in today.

Read these brief biographies of some of the women who were featured on the list.

Amy Johnson - Aviator

Amy Johnson CBE, was a pioneering English aviator. Flying solo or with her husband, Jim Mollison, Johnson set numerous long-distance records during the 1930s. Johnson flew in the Second World War as a part of the Air Transport Auxiliary where she died during a ferry flight.

Anita Roddick - Entrepreneur

Dame Anita Roddick was a British businesswoman, human rights activist and environmental campaigner. She was best known as the founder of The Body Shop, a cosmetics company producing and retailing beauty products that shaped ethical consumerism. The company was one of the first to prohibit the use of ingredients tested on animals and one of the first to promote fair trade with third world countries.

Emmeline Pankhurst - Suffragette

Emmeline Pankhurst was an English political activist and leader of the British suffragette movement, which helped women win right to vote. In 1999, Time Magazine named Pankhurst as one of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century, stating: "she shaped an idea of women for our time; she shook society into a new pattern from which there could be no going back".


Jackie Collins - Novelist

Jackie Collins is an English novelist, screenwriter, and former actress. She is the younger sister of actress Joan Collins. To date, she has written 27 novels, all of which have been on the New York Times bestsellers list and have sold over 400 million copies worldwide. Her books are written for an adult audience and have been banned in some countries for being too explicit.

Julie Andrews - Entertainer

Dame Julie Elizabeth Andrews is an English film and stage actress, singer, and author. She is the recipient of Golden Globe, Emmy, Grammy, BAFTA, People's Choice Award, Theatre World Award, Screen Actors Guild and Academy Award honours. Andrews was a former British child actress and singer who rose to prominence starring in musicals such as My Fair Lady and Camelot, and in musical films such as Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music, the roles for which she is still best-known.


Kelly Holmes - Athlete

Dame Kelly Holmes, DBE is a retired British middle distance athlete. She specialised in the 800 metres and 1500 metres events and won a gold medal for both distances at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. She set British records in numerous events and still holds the records over the 600, 800, 1000, and 1500 metres distances.

Mary Quant - Fashion Designer

Mary Quant, OBE, FCSD is a British fashion designer and one of the many designers who took credit for inventing the miniskirt and hot pants. Born to Welsh parents, Quant went to Blackheath High School then studied illustration at Goldsmiths College before taking a career with a couture milliner. She is also famed for her work on pop art in fashion.

Queen Elizabeth II - Queen of England

Queen Elizabeth II is the Queen of the the United Kingdom and sixteen independent sovereign states known as the Commonwealth. As well as acting as Head of the Commonwealth, she is also Supreme Governor of the Church of England. As a constitutional monarch, she is politically neutral and by convention her role is largely ceremonial

Task 3

Work with another student or a friend. Ask your partner these questions and write down their answers.

1) Which of the women you read about in Task 3 do you feel has done the most to empower and/or inspire other women? Why?

2) Which of the women you read about in Task 3 do you think has done the least to empower and/or inspire other women? Why?

3) If you were making your own list of women who have shaped the world we live in today, how many of these women (if any) would feature on it? Who would you include in your list, and who would you leave off it?

Wednesday, 6 March 2013

Monday, 4 March 2013

Adele - Set Fire to the Rain