American Studies - Američka kultura i civilizacija

American Studies/Američka kultura i civilizacija - An extracurricular course / fakultativna nastava in Gornjogradska gimnazija since 2007 (approved by the Ministry of Education), and launched at Gimnazija Sesvete in 2019; initiated by the American Corner in collaboration with the English teachers Sanja Božinović and Snježana Liović (Gornjogradks gimnazija) and the English teacher Vlatka Ostojić (Gimnazija Sesvete); the library program design and coordination by the AC coordinator Marina Lončar.

The program of virtual events and activities in collaboration with the American Corner for the school year 2020-2021:
 

Gornjogradska gimnazija

• Media Literacy: Product Placement by Tina Hrubi 14.10.2020.

• Virtual Jazz on Wheels: Introduction to jazz with Joe and Lela Kaplowitz 21.10.2020.

• Croatian Book Month: Climate Change by Gordana Medunić 11.11.2020.

• Women's Entrepreneurship Program:  #mojabiznisideja - a series of online workshops with Kaja Pavlinić   25.11.-16.12.2021.

• Presidential Election: No Second Chance for a First Impression: The Inaugural Speech 20.1.2021.

• Black History Month:  Blues: o glazbi, kulturi i enciklopediji by Josip Ćirić, American Corner Zadar, 9.2.2021.

• Earth Day: Inventing Tomorrow - virtual film screening of a documentary film    24.4.-28.4.

• Earth Day: How You Can Make a Difference - virtual gathering with the students from Gimnazija Sesvete to discuss the film Inventing Tomorrow and offer solutions to problems in local communities

• English Media Club: What makes a good blog post; Why people believe fake news stories by Cody McClain Brown:    12.5.2021.

• Women's History Project: Inspiring American and Croatian Women – Past and Present  - Zoom meeting with the students fro Gimnazija Sesvete to present their role models and discuss the achievements of women 27.5.2021.

• Online Survey and Certificates of Attendance: Mentimeter - Impressions and Suggestions 17.6.2021.

​Gimnazija Sesvete

• Media Literacy: Product Placement by Tina Hrubi 14.10.2020.

• Presidential Elections: An Overview of the U.S. Elections - in conversation with Cameron Millard  23.10.2020.

• Virtual Jazz on Wheels: Introduction to jazz with Joe and Lela Kaplowitz 21.10.2020.

• Women's Entrepreneurship Program:  Who is(not) an entrepreneur? by Kristina Ercegović  3.12.2020.

• Media Literacy: Online filmske radionice: Film It!      15.12.2020.-3.2.2021.

• Women's Entrepreneurship Program:  If you can’t communicate and talk to people and get your ideas across, you’re giving up your potential by Maruša Stamać 18.1.2021.

• Presidential Election: No Second Chance for a First Impression: The Inaugural Speech 20.1.2021.

• Women's Entrepreneurship Program: The Importance and Status of Women Entrepreneurs by Aco Momčilović 3.2.2021.

• Black History Month:  Blues: o glazbi, kulturi i enciklopediji by Josip Ćirić, American Corner Zadar, 9.2.2021.

• Earth Day: Inventing Tomorrow - virtual film screening of a documentary film    24.4.-28.4.

• Earth Day: How You Can Make a Difference - virtual gathering with the students from Gornjogradska gimnazija to discuss the film Inventing Tomorrow and offer solutions to problems in local communities

• English Media Club: World Press Freedom Day: Women in Journalism   3.5.2021.

• English Media Club: What makes a good blog post; Why people believe fake news stories by Cody McClain Brown   12.5.2021.

• Women's History Project  March-May: Inspiring American and Croatian Women – Past and Present  - Zoom meeting with the students fro Gimnazija Sesvete to present their role models and discuss the achievements of women 27.5.2021.

• Online Survey and Certificates of Attendance: Mentimeter - Impressions and Suggestions 17.6.2021.

• Year of Reading - Reading in English 1.4.-2.7.2021.: Book Adventure - Let's Talk About It    2.7.2021.

Discover America  

Discover America:  A series of travel lectures on the geography, history and culture of the United States has been launched at the August Cesarec Library in collaboration with American Corner Zagreb to cover geographical, historical and cultural diversity of the fifty states of America.

• U.S. State of Oregon     24.5.2016.  

• Food and Culture in New Orleans     16.6.2016

• Posebnosti Mississippija i kultura američkog Juga     22.9.2016

• Travel Lecture: U.S. State of Virginia     3.11.2016.

• Putujemo na jugozapad i sjeveroistok Sjedinjenih Američkih Država     24.2.2017.

•  A Virtual Road Trip Through Pennsylvania: Putopisno predavanje "Američka savezna država Pensilvanija" 9.3.2017.

• From the Glades to Baltimore to the Bay-A Seminar on Maryland Geography     7.4.2017.

• Putujemo SAD-om od Wyominga do Colorada     18.5.2017.

• Travel Lecture: Hawaii     3.11.2017.  

• Discover USA: San Francisco       7.11.2017.

• Travel Lecture: New Hampshire     28.11.2017.

• Discover America: San Francisco   12.12.2017.

• U.S. State of Los Angeles           1.2.2018.

• American Corner - Introduction to National Parks across the United States14.6.2018.

• Američki kutak - Discover America: Washington, D.C.         21.11.2018.

• Breaking the Stereotype: California You May Not Have Seen So Far     20.12.2018.

• American Corner : American Regional Cuisine     24.1.2019.

• Welcome to the Midwest     28.2.2019.

• Watered Down with Šljivovica: Growing up Croatian-American in Kansas City, Kansas     18.4.2019.

• Fotografsko druženje: Od američkog Juga do New Yorka     23.10.2019

• The Regions of the United States     20.11.2019.

• A Stranger in Never-Never Land     28.1.2020.  

• Discover America: od New Yorka do Denvera    19.10.2020. 

• New York danas     25.3.2021.

• Discover America: Razgovor sa Zlaticom Hoke    19.5.2021.

• Discover America: POETSKI BEAT     9.6.2021.

 

Media Literacy

Media Literacy: A series of workshops and presentations for school children of all ages, and general public

• Be Media Smart: Abeceda interneta (3.5.2023.)
• Be Media Smart: Let`s Talk about '80s Movies (April, 2023 - Knjižnica Jelkovec)
• Online workshop: Bubble Trouble (24.11.2022.)
• English Media Club - Digital Learning and Technologies - A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Video Lessons  YouTube KGZ - American Corner 10.12.2021.
• English Media Club: Digital Learning and Technologies - Our Well-Being  YouTube KGZ - American Corner Zagreb 14.12.2021.
   
• Zahvalnica Gornjogradske gimnazije (28.6.2021.)

• ''9 Steps to Film'' – odabrani igrani filmovi iz online filmske radionice  -  YouTube KGZ - American Corner Zagreb 10.07.2021. - 31.08.2021.

• English Media Club - What Makes a Good Blog Post    12.5.2021.

• English Media Club - World Press Freedom Day: Women in Journalism     3.5.2021..

• Predstavljamo ciklus filmskih webinara: Film It!     11.3-15.6.2021.

• Online filmske radionice: Film It!      15.12.2020.-3.2.2021.

• #mojabiznisideja by KAJUŠKA: Online kava s poduzetnicama     9.12.2020.

• Medijska pismenost za djecu i mlade     13.10.-6.12.2020.

• Svjetski dan učitelja : World Teachers' Day     5.10.2020.-12.10.2020.

• ​Media Literacy: An American Perspective      8.6.-9.6.2020.

• Selma and Civil Rights of African Americans     3.3.2020.

• Učite medijsku pismenost      8.4.2019.-12.4.2019​

• ​Učite medijsku pismenost - Dani medijske pismenosti    8.4.2019.-12.4.2019.

• Is Truth Stranger Than Fiction?       24.4.2018.

• Let's Read Together: The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore     3.11.2016.​ ​​

• ​iPad Workshop: Skype za bake i djedove  28.5.2015.

• Predstavljanje Kindlea i iPada  15.6.2012.-19.6.2012.

2021 Year of Reading
 

• Literary Connections: #godina čitanja
• Online panel - Translational as Transnational: New Passages of Understanding  4.11.2023.
• Online razgovor s Petrom Pugar: Suvremena američka proza i hrvatski prijevod  11.11.2023.
   
• Celebrating reading on social media and on display: #godinačitanja
• Let's celebrate Reading: Let the Book Talk   28.8.2021.

• Remembering Eric Carle, 1929-2021    8.6.2021. 

• Little Stories For Young Learners of English     13.5.2021.

•  Earth Day: ''Nature is precoius and we want to restore it.''      22.4.2021.

• Easter:  Our favorite books of the season.    2.4.2021.- 12.4.2021. 

• 3 for World Theatre Day!    18.3.2021.

• ​10 BOOKS IN ONE PLACE - ST. PATRICK’S DAY  17.3.2021.

• Diversity of Voices: ''From Challenge Comes Change'' - Books by women authors and about outstanding women, past and present for International Women's Day     5.3.2021.

• 3 New Picture Books for International Day of Women and Girls in Science:     8.3.2021.

• Discover Black History Month: 6 Books  for Kids     5.2.2021.

• Girls Rule     26.1.2021.

• Off the Shelf in honor of International Day of Education and to announce the Year of Reading: The Dot      25.1.2021.

• Celebrating by book reading programs: #godinačitanja

• Book Adventure: Let's Talk About It!    2.4.2021.-16.6.2021.

• World Book Night 2021: The Healing Power of Stories    23.4.2021.

 

Američki kutak Zagreb razvija zbirku knjižne i neknjižne građe za potrebe stručnog razvoja i usavršavanja učitelja i profesora engleskog jezika i svih zainteresiranih studenata i djelatnika  u području obrazovanja. Usporedno, u okviru ciklusa predavanja i radionica pod nazivom Teachers' Corner, u suradnji s učiteljima i profesorima, predstavlja se literatura za usavršavanje profesora engleskog jezika te se održavaju stručni skupovi i tribine s ciljem razmjene primjera dobre prakse.


Knjige i sva građa klasičnih i recentnih izdanja nabavlja se i daje na posudbu ili za korištenje u čitaonici te se mjesečno organiziraju susreti učitelja i profesora engleskog jezika posvećeni predstavljanju dostupnih izdanja knjiga u interaktivnim predavanjima i radionicama pod nazivom Teachers' Corner. Urednica i koordinatorica programa od 2019. do 2023. godine: Marina Lončar

Iz zbirke knjiga okupljenih pod nazivom Teachers' Corner, od recentnijih izdanja predstavljene su sljedeće knjige:

Nunan, David
Teaching English to speakers of other languages: an introduction / David Nunan. New York : Routledge, 2015.
Predstavljanje: Nunan: prozor u svijet poučavanja engleskoga kao stranoga jezika


Ritchhart, Ron
Making thinking visible: how to promote engagement, understanding, and independence for all learners / Ron Ritchhart, Mark Church, Karin Morrison. San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, 2011.
Predstavljanje: If only teachers could see what students are thinking

Smith, Jim
The lazy teacher's handbook :how your students learn more when you teach less. New ed.
 / Jim Smith ; edited by Ian Gilbert. Bancyfelin : Independent Thinking Press, 2017.

Predstavljanje: The Power of Lazy Teaching


STRUČNI SKUP

Za vrijeme pandemije putem videokonferencije na Zoomu održana je tribina/stručni skup pod nazivom A Conversation with Teachers: Teaching and Learning during the Pandemic, a  sudionici su bili: Snježana Pavić, Željka Jakušić Čejka, Karolina de Vrgna, Livija Pribanić, Tajana Bundara iSanja Božinović.


TEACHERS SHARE THEIR FAVORITE STORIES

U povodu Noći knjige 2021, Livija Pribanić, profesorica engleskog jezika, pripovijedala je svoju omiljenu priču o identitetu kroz interaktivnu radionicu o čitanju i zašto nam je čitanje važno: World Book Night 2021: The Healing Power of Stories.

Videozapis možete pogledati ovdje.

Classic Fairy Tales with New Twists retold and presented  by Tajana Bundara, the English Teacher at the Manuš Primary School – Split / OŠ  Manuš – Split.

Videozapis možete pogledati ovdje.

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, read and presented in excerpts,  by Karolina De Vrgna, the English Teacher and Special Education Teacher at the SUVAG Polyclinic and the Publishing Editor at Školska knjiga, Zagreb.

Videozapis možete pogledati ovdje.


ENGLISH MEDIA CLUB

English Media Club: How to Design a Video Lesson?

U sklopu programa English Media Club koji provodimo  tijekom 2021. godine predstavljamo Tatjanu Bundara i Kseniju Rumora, profesorice engleskog I njemačkog jezika, koje su doblile priznanje izvrsnosti i nagradu Ministarstva  znanosti i obrazovanja na Svjetski dan učitelja među 511 najboljih učitelja i nastavnika.

English Media Club: Our Well-Being
U sklopu programa English Media Club u Američkom kutku Zagreb tijekom 2021. godine, Tatjana Bundara i Lidija Šaravanja, profesorice engleskog i njemačkog jezika, održale su videoprezentaciju pod naslovom Digital Learning and Technologies: Our Well-Being.

Media Literacy: Bubble Trouble

U sklopu programa Media Literacy, koji se kontinuirano provodi od 2011. godine,  prati se  razvoj novih tehnologija, posebice mobilnih tehnologija i interneta.

Online radionicu medijske pismenosti na engleskom jeziku pod naslovom Bubble Trouble održale su dr. sc. Lidija Šaravanja i doc. dr. sc. Ivana Marinić.

Online workshop : Bubble Trouble (24.11.2022.)