What topics can I use? Italian culture?
I’m trying to make a list of topics about Italian culture to use with my class each day. I want to choose a topic for each class so that Italian culture is included every day. I made a list of things I want to include, and am looking for imput on other important cultural/historical topics (these could inclue historical figures or events, contemporary cultural pieces- specifically things that teenagers would be interested in).
Here is my list so far: fashion, cars, music, English words in Italian language, Italian words in English language, Carnevale, Easter, Christmas, Palio, the Vatican, Rome, Venice, Florence, all regions of Italy, school in Italy, bars/caffe’, immigration, Colosseum, Pantheon, Trevi Fountain, Spanish steps, Duomo, Italian food, cinema, pesce d’aprile, wars, unification, euro, jobs, soccer, religion.
Kind of a random list, but any help would be appreciated! I want to think of things that the students would enjoy learning about!
our flag: il “tricolore”
Il primo tricolore italiano nasce il 7 gennaio 1797 a Reggio nell’Emilia come bandiera della Repubblica Cispadana proposto da Giuseppe Compagnoni.
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italia#Tricolore_italiano
UNESCO World Heritage Sites
* Main Article List of UNESCO Sites in Italy
* Rock Drawings in Valcamonica — 1979
* Church and Dominican Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie with “The Last Supper” by Leonardo da Vinci — 1980
* Historic Centre of Rome, the Properties of the Holy See in that City Enjoying Extraterritorial Rights, and Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls; transboundary property, shared with the Holy See — 1980,1990
* Historic Centre of Florence — 1982
* Piazza del Duomo, Pisa — 1987, 2007
* Venice and its lagoon — 1987
* Historic Centre of San Gimignano — 1990
* The Sassi and the Park of the Rupestrian Churches of Matera — 1993
* City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto — 1994, 1996
* Crespi d’Adda — 1995
* Ferrara, City of the Renaissance, and its Po Delta — 1995, 1999
* Historic Centre of Naples — 1995
* Historic Centre of Siena — 1995
* Castel del Monte, Andria (Bari) — 1994
* Early Christian Monuments of Ravenna — 1996
* Historic Centre of the City of Pienza — 1996
* The Trulli of Alberobello — 1996
* 18th Century Royal Palace at Caserta with the Park, the Aqueduct of Vanvitelli and the San Leucio Complex — 1997
* Archaeological Area of Agrigento, Sicily — 1997
* Archaeological Areas of Pompei, Herculaneum and Torre Annunziata — 1997
* Botanical Garden (Orto Botanico di Padova), Padua — 1997
* Cathedral, Torre Civica and Piazza Grande, Modena — 1997
* Amalfi Coast — 1997
* Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and their Islands (Palmaria, Tino and Tinetto) — 1997
* Residences of the Royal House of Savoy (Turin and its province) — 1997
* Su Nuraxi di Barumini, Sardinia — 1997
* Villa Romana del Casale, Sicily — 1997
* Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Basilica of Aquileia, Friuli-Venezia Giulia — 1998
* Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park with the Archæological sites of Pæstum and Velia, and the Certosa di Padula — 1998
* Historic Centre of Urbino — 1998
* Villa Adriana (Tivoli) — 1999
* Assisi, the Basilica of San Francesco d’Assisi and other Franciscan Sites — 2000
* City of Verona — 2000
* Isole Eolie (Aeolian Islands), Sicily — 2000
* Villa d’Este, Tivoli — 2001
* Late Baroque Towns of the Val di Noto (Eight towns in South-Eastern Sicily: Caltagirone, Militello in Val di Catania, Catania, Modica, Noto, Palazzolo Acreide, Ragusa and Scicli) — 2002
* Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy — 2003
* Etruscan Necropolises of Cerveteri and Tarquinia — 2004
* Val d’Orcia — 2004
* Syracuse and the Rocky Necropolis of Pantalica, Sicily — 2005
* Genoa: Le Strade Nuove and the system of the Palazzi dei Rolli — 2006
* Raetian Railway (shared with Switzerland) — 2008
* Mantua and Sabbioneta — 2008
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_Heritage_Sites_in_Europe#Italy_.2843.29