Teacher's Relection
The conclusion of a project is in itself a New Open Door.
To tell the truth at first I did not expect the students'interest to be so high if compared to the themes you generally deal with in the class context.
I must admit that curiosity about the European Union probably helped me create and enhance motivation.
Therefore, since I am an English and English Literature teacher I would like to conclude the present project with an invitation. Enlargement and Integration are key stages in the development of a the European Union of the Citizens and The Young and, in my opinion, they are well expressed in the poem Seamus Heany, the Laureate Irish poet, composed on the occasion of 2004 Enlargement, the strategic moment when further ten countries joined EU.
I would like to address it to all the students who actively took part in the present project and to everybody who shared work and reflection on such hot issues as the ones illustrated in this educational path. S. Heaney's poem speaks by itself just sending a multifaceted and emotional message which makes us all joined in diversity providing us with a moment of reflection on EU Enlargement steps and the process of integration.

Poem delivered at EU Enlargement Ceremony by Irish Poet Laureate, Seamus Heaney
Date: 1 May 2004


Beacons at Bealtaine by Seamus Heaney




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