Educational activity around the short film Lost Property
Write a text by organizing your ideas, developing sentences and stringing them together coherently.
Use the tools related to the study of the language available in the class (dictionaries, spell checkers, etc.).
Lost Property © 12foot6
TitleLost Property
ThemeMemory, Family relationship
Genre & keywordsNarrative, friendship, love, nostalgia, memory, memories
Age (for film)9-11 years old
Duration06 min 13 s
DirectorAsa Lucander
MusicDavid Arch
Production12foot6 (United Kingdom, 2014)
Produce a technical object from a construction diagram.
In addition to the analysis activities proposed in Thematic pathways thematic tour on memory by Jean-Louis Jouanneaud, ask the students about their experiences: 1 Have they ever forgotten something important?
2 Did this have any consequences?
3 Are they able to easily remember what they want? How do they go about it?
4 Are they aware of the determining role of sleep in memorization (a sorting is carried out between what
deserves to be remembered and what does not need it)? 5 How do they or their loved ones not forget certain things (notes, memos, reminders on
smartphone...)? 6 Offer them to test their loved ones by asking them, for example, to name the names of their
kindergarten and elementary school teachers. Are they able to remember them all?
Help students identify that certain memories are linked to places, situations and objects. Ask them to choose an object with which they wish to permanently associate their current memories. It will be about creating a little book telling the story we have with this object, what it evokes for us. We will then keep this little book either with the said object, or in a protected place in the house (for example with passports or other official family documents), where we will have the pleasure of finding it and re-reading it in a few years. It is possible to to print some small books from this page to allow students to project themselves more easily into the activity.
Give them the A4 sheet of the small blank book [material to print] (taking care not to resize it when printing). Guide them during the folding process (and make the central cut yourself). Once their text has been written in draft and corrected, using the elements suggested on the last page, they can copy it cleanly, on the little book, before illustrating it, reading it to their classmates if they wish... and taking it home.
Activity sheet written by: Bruce Demaugé-Bost. Discover the Little ABC of the school...
