Walls Project

"Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out"
Robert Frost 1875-1963

Wall Paintings in Jerusalem

 

 In this project, you'll learn about different kinds of walls and discover interesting things about them.

1. Introduction

2. Climb a Wall: The Task

3. Wall Talk: Choose a Wall

4. Walls Have Ears: Write a Report

5. Build a Wall

 

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Introduction

This project was inspired by the mural artwork in Jerusalem created by artists from Lyons, France. See Wall Paintings in Jerusalem.

If walls could talk, they would tell us stories about people, families, relationships, communities, wars, cultures and buildings.

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Climb a Wall

In this project, you're going to

1. choose a wall that tells a story. The wall can be physical or metaphorical, and the story can be historical, geographical, personal, cultural.

2. write a report about your talking wall.

3. create art work about your report.

4. talk about your wall to your group.

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Wall Talk

1. First think in groups about another example for each of these categories:

Category	Example
archeology	Hadrian's Wall in Britian
architecture
art
biblical walls
beyond the walls	inside the world of, for example, cinema
connecting walls
dividing walls
drawings and murals
electric wall
emotional walls	walls between people
famous walls	Berlin Wall
fences
garden wall
invisible walls	wall between reality and dreams
graffiti on walls	Graffiti in Tel Aviv graffiti as personal expression
literary walls
memorial walls	Vietnam War Memorial
murals	Jerusalem Wall Paintings
mythology	Walls in myths, like mazes
natural walls
personal walls	behind the walls of peoples' houses
political walls	Palestinians and Israeli conflict
privacy
protection	Great Wall of China
psychological
religious	The second temple Wall in Jerusalem
school walls
sexes	walls between the sexes
social walls
songs	Wonderwall - Oasis The Wall - Pink Floyd
stories	The Labyrinth
symbolic walls
other walls

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. Now use  Google search engine to think about and choose any example of a wall from any category for your project.

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Walls Have Ears: Writing a Report

1. Make a list of questions about the wall you have chosen.

2. Answer these questions in full sentences. Pay attention to your grammar and spelling.

3. Your report must include the following:

1. Table of contents.

2. Introduction.

3. Sections of the Project (Include here all the stages of the project that you did)

4. Conclusion.

5. Bibliography. (Don't forget to cite all the internet sites you used in your project

6. Reflection. Write a page in which you express what you learned/gained through doing this project.

7. Appendices.

8. Illustrations.
    

 

	points
Cover page. Title of project, your name, class, date.	5
Table of Contents	5
Introduction	5
content: sections of the project	35
Conclusion	5
Bibliography	5
Reflection	5
Illustrations	5
Spelling	10
grammar	10
vocabulary	10
TOTAL	100

 

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Build a Wall

Draw a picture that expresses the "Wall" that you chose to research.

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