Students on the island will learn about the battle of Tamasite through a board game

The council of Education and Youth delivered to schools on the island, 60 batches of materials purchased to promote reading habits among students.

The Minister of Education and Youth Council of Fuerteventura, Claudio Gutierrez, delivered to the primary and secondary schools on the island 60 batches of materials ordered by the Corporación Insular to publicize the story among students Fuerteventura Island , through a playful approach tailored to the interests of students.

Each batch consists mainly of a board game and a dozen copies of the book 'The Battle of Tamasite', text that has been designed as a romance by the philologist majorero Marcos Hormiga. This material, called episodes Island, also includes other publications as "The Domains of the Wind 'with a text by Miguel Angel Sosa which also covers the history of Fuerteventura, and six other books of different authors focus on other stories in the Canaries.

Accompanied by the teacher and head of the editorial CAM-PDS, Placido Republic, the Minister of Education told the council directors and heads of schools on the island who came to collect material from episodes Island how this initiative aims clear of promoting reading habits among students of primary and secondary schools on the island, we hope the education posed by this formula enables the students to approach the history of our island through an entertaining and participatory approach " .

Czech Placido referred to the good reception given to Island episodes since it began the project two years ago in other islands of the archipelago. "All books that have been written by authors canaries, are edited with less than 100 pages and 8,000 words, which allows reading by all students in three classes. The fact that students can test the knowledge acquired in a board game, which also poses a competition, has proved more effective than forcing them to read a book that interests them and then do a job. "

The other titles in the lot are "The defeat of Nelson ',' Night of Fire ',' Tempest stone ',' The country's wind ',' The Journey 'and' Chimanfaya ', all written by authors like Elsa Lopez, Pedro Flores, Jose A. Lujan, Emilio Gonzalez and Francisco Quevedo Déniz. Among the themes of these publications include the arrival of Christopher Columbus Gomera in the Canaries by the explosion of the volcano Timanfaya, or the pirate tradition in the archipelago, whose episodes highlights the Battle of Tamasite 1740.

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Puerto del Rosario, 25 November 2009.

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