Centropa AND Studio Art

“ I liked math. Writing undoubtedly less so, let alone drawing.”

A Balancing ActWhat do students

need to learn?What do students

want to learn?

Ideas Take Flight*Overarching Concept

*Brainstorm Ideas

*Connect

Greensboro, North Carolina, USA

The Cookbook Project: Greensboro to Sopron

Sopron , Hungary

View Centropa film So That Memory Doesn’t Die

Discuss how the blueberry pirogues became a link to Teofila’s family

Class discussion on food associations within individual families

Student creates a page about his/her own family and a page featuring a favorite family recipe

Free Advice: do it online and forget about the physical making of a book!

Cookbook Process

Centropa Film: Love on a Paper Airplane

View the Movie and Discuss

Introduce Imre Kinszki’s work

Use Text from Judit Kinszki’s Interview

Invent graphic design Add message to ???Fold into airplane & fly!

Airplanes_______________________

View Survival in Sarajevo Discuss importance of maintaining mail

deliveryCreate a postcard with themes from filmWrite message on back and address to

intended recipients

Postcards to Sarajevo

Friends: Lauren and Balázs My experience meeting my pen pal Balázs

has been wonderful. He has become a friend to me, and I enjoy speaking to him as often as possible. When he first contacted me, we immediately started talking about our cultures and the societies we live in. It was the most fascinating thing. I learned how he was Jewish and how not many Jewish people lived in his town of Sopron, Hungary, and that they still experience discrimination. And I told him about America and how we still too, have many improvements to make.

We have discussed over the months worldly things, politics, people, literature, foods, and it has been a really great experience so far. I am glad to have connected with my pen pal this well. The pen pal experience has been the most notable thing I have done in high school, and something I will definitely continue. As Balázs and I are still friends today. :)