Let’s Write a Book with Lydia Lukidis!

This project includes:

• Project planning activity for targeted personnel (date to be determined, 30 min, virtual, in group)
• Offer Sequence with the Students
  • 3 Workshops offered by a partner including cultural mediation (exact dates tbd, March to May 2027, 120 min)
  • Closing event: book or collection (March to May 2027)

Total number of classes or groups: 4
This offer is available in English.

Requirements for Participation

• Authorization from school administrator
• Availability of personnel to attend planning meetings
• Minimum number of classrooms per school: 2
  Each participant must complete a registration form.
  Make sure each of your colleagues has completed theirs.
  Incomplete registration compromises your participation.

If you do not meet the criteria for the minimum number required to participate in this offer, please contact the resource person.

General Selection Criteria

In view of the popularity of certain project proposals and the number of spaces, selection criteria have been retained:

• A proportional representation of the targeted schools of the two English-language school boards in Montréal as a priority, and of the three French-language school service centers depending on the spaces available
• A representation of the cycles
• The participation of the individual in other offers of artistic and cultural mediation (current school year)
• The participation of the school in other offers of artistic and cultural mediation (current school year).

Description

Write a book with Montreal’s very own Lydia Lukidis!

In this three-part workshop, students will collaborate with Lydia to create a book about a current social issue. The class will explore a specific issue and this will serve as the starting point of the story.

Students will then learn how to structure a narrative plot by doing various exercises on the genres of literature, the main elements in stories as well as the importance of conflict and resolution. Once they have a good grasp on these subjects, they will start brainstorming ideas for their own book idea.

Students will collectively create the plot, setting, character sketches and chapter outlines, after which the story will be written and put together to create the final draft. Students will then draw pictures to be included in the book. Finally, class books will be printed and bound and delivered to each particpating classroom.

Length: 3 workshops of 2 hours each

This offer includes an experimentation that allows participants to reinvest the contents in the targeted program components:

• Subject Area: Languages

Predictor of Success: literacy

Specific and Measurable Goals

• Allow all elementary school students in disadvantaged Montréal areas to have access to meaningful and varied experiences.
• Promote cultural enhancement at school for all students, in partnership with the artists in the community of Montréal.
• Allow students to broaden their vision of the world, to shape their identity, to develop the power to act, find their voice, and participate in a civic goal.

Project Sequence

1. Finding a social issue
(exact dates tbd, March to May 2027, 120 min, in class)

Workshop offered by a partner including cultural mediation

The class will explore a specific issue and this will serve as the starting point of the story.

School 1
Day 1: week of March 8, 2 workshops of 2 hours each (March 8, 9, 10 or 11)

School 2
Day 1: week of May 3, 2 workshops of 2 hours each (May 3, 5, 6, or 7)

2. Structuring a Story
(exact dates tbd, March to May 2027, 120 min, in class)

Workshop offered by a partner including cultural mediation

Students will learn how to structure a narrative plot by doing various exercises on the genres of literature, the main elements in stories as well as the importance of conflict and resolution. During this second visit they will also start brainstorming ideas for their own book idea.

School 1
Day 2: week of March 15, 2 workshops of 2 hours each (March 15, 16, 17, or 18)

School 2
Day 2: week of May 10, 2 workshops of 2 hours each (May 10, 12, 13, or 14)

3. Writing a Book
(exact dates tbd, March to May 2027, 120 min, in class)

Workshop offered by a partner including cultural mediation

Students will collectively create the plot, setting, character sketches and chapter outlines, after which the story will be written and put together to create the final draft. Students will then draw pictures to be included in the book.

School 1
Day 3: week of April 12, 2 workshops of 2 hours each (April 12, 13, or 16)

School 2
Day 3: week of May 24, 2 workshops of 2 hours each (May 24, 25, 26, or 28)

4. Sharing Our Books !
(March to May 2027, to be determined by each school)

Closing event: book or collection

Each school can decide how to share their book creations with others.

Cost

No cost assumed by the school

A Montréal School for All covers the following costs:

• Materials
• Artistic and cultural mediation workshops: (at school, at partner’s location, etc.)

A Montréal School For All

Contact person
Nancy Saltarelli : nancy.saltarelli@education.gouv.qc.ca

Partner: Lydia Lukidis

All partners are committed to respecting the current health measures defined by Public Health and the CNESST in their various activities.