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Uma contribuição de João Pereira, 11ºC

we've been around and we have not forgotten you

Merry Christmas and a Happy New year to you all!

We've been rather busy but here we are again and hope to go on sharing ideas, thoughts and words.
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Talking Turkeys!
© Benjamin Zephaniah
home page
(reproduced here
with permission)
Be nice to yu turkeys dis christmas
Cos' turkeys just wanna hav fun
Turkeys are cool, turkeys are wicked
An every turkey has a Mum.
Be nice to yu turkeys dis christmas,
Don't eat it, keep it alive,
It could be yu mate, an not on your plate
Say, Yo! Turkey I'm on your side.
I got lots of friends who are turkeys
An all of dem fear christmas time,
Dey wanna enjoy it, dey say humans destroyed it
An humans are out of dere mind,
Yeah, I got lots of friends who are turkeys
Dey all hav a right to a life,
Not to be caged up an genetically made up
By any farmer an his wife.
Turkeys just wanna play reggae
Turkeys just wanna hip-hop
Can yu imagine a nice young turkey saying,
'I cannot wait for de chop',
Turkeys like getting presents, dey wanna watch christmas TV,
Turkeys hav brains an turkeys feel pain
In many ways like yu an me.
I once knew a turkey called........ Turkey
He said "Benji explain to me please,
Who put de turkey in christmas
An what happens to christmas trees?",
I said "I am not too sure turkey
But it's nothing to do wid Christ Mass
Humans get greedy an waste more dan need be
An business men mek loadsa cash'.
Be nice to yu turkey dis christmas
Invite dem indoors fe sum greens
Let dem eat cake an let dem partake
In a plate of organic grown beans,
Be nice to yu turkey dis christmas
An spare dem de cut of de knife,
Join Turkeys United an dey'll be delighted
An yu will mek new friends 'FOR LIFE'.



Some of us tried to read the poem without having all the words and it turned out to be creative and fun:

11º turma B, João Joaquim,Pedro Romão e João Palma
When we pick up the turkey
His head we chop
To take away his life
And watch him dance hip-hop
Usually genetically made up
Instead of organic food
You live caged up
In a lie of your own
With rice and beans
We eat in the plate
Also with greens
And in the end it looked like a stake

11º E, Bruno Santa Rita, Francisca Bastos, Guilherme Cameira and Victoria Ayuso
Hi, I'm a Turkey
I'm genetically made-up
You may think I'm free
But I'm caged-up
You usually think I'm organic grown
But my friend, that's a lie of your own
With a knife
You cut my life
Do you think it's funny?
Then come to the chop
You'll see me dancing hip-hop.

11º C Alexandre Piçarra ,Susana Ferreira
Turkey, my love
The one I adore
I ate a turkey
And I want to eat more
The turkey I chopped
When I was dancing hip-hop
I did it with a knife
To take his life
I love greens
I love you
I love beans
I was made for you
My turkey was genetically made up
But I love him any way
He was caged up
And in my heart he stays





11º B, Catarina Galego, Isidro Féria, João Vaz and Maria Ines Gonçalves
This is the turkey hip-hop
so grap your knife and chop
if the turkey is caged up
it means it's Gmade up
and if you want beans you better grow them on their own
because good greens must be organic grown

Earth Day at ESDG - 22nd April

The 3rd term has already started and on 22nd April our school will be celebrating the Earth Day with Philosophy. The 11th graders have been working on many projects to raise the school community’s awareness to this important day. From giving everyone the chance to learn a bit more about our planet through many informative posters and Power Point presentations that will be shown in the school’s main hall to calling each person’s attention to how they might be damaging our home without knowing it - making it possible to easily calculate your Ecological Footprint - we will be attempting to spread the green habits and views trying to make the world a better place, one person at a time.
We've tried to combine the information we want to transmit with some creative thoughts to make it appealing to everyone. What would happen if every human being on Earth disappeared? As you’ll be able to realise through an appealing documentary, the Earth would move on... without us.
In Dave Foreman’s words, you should “pay your rent for the privilege of living on this beautiful, blue-green, living Earth”.

Celebrate Earth Day everyday!



André Fresco
João Pereira
Raquel Guerreiro

11th C

Season's Greetings

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home! ~Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers, 1836

Earth Song

Michael Jackson – Earth Song



What about sunrise
What about rain
What about all the things
That you said we were to gain...
What about killing fields
Is there a time
What about all the things
That you said was yours and mine...
Did you ever stop to notice
All the blood we've shed before
Did you ever stop to notice
The crying Earth the weeping shores?

…

What have we done to the world
Look what we've done
What about all the peace
That you pledge your only son...
What about flowering fields
Is there a time
What about all the dreams
That you said was yours and mine...
Did you ever stop to notice
All the children dead from war
Did you ever stop to notice
The crying Earth the weeping shores

…

I used to dream
I used to glance beyond the stars
Now I don't know where we are
Although I know we've drifted far

(…)

Hey, what about yesterday
What about the seas
The heavens are falling down
I can't even breathe
What about the bleeding Earth

(What about us)

Can't we feel its wounds
What about nature's worth
It's our planet's womb
What about animals
We've turned kingdoms to dust
(What about us)
What about elephants
Have we lost their trust
What about crying whales
We're ravaging the seas
What about forest trails

(What about us)

…

Burnt despite our pleas
What about the holy land
Torn apart by creed
What about the common man
Can't we set him free
(What about us)
What about children dying
Can't you hear them cry
Where did we go wrong
Someone tell me why
What about babies
(What about us)
What about the days
What about all their joy
What about the man
What about the crying man
What about Abraham
(What was us)

What about death again
Do we give a damn


Comment on Earth Song


This song was written in the 1990s and the singer, Michael Jackson, is warning us of some world problems. He tries to draw our attention to them and he explains what we have been changing and how these endangered things are important for our well being on Earth.

He feels pain caused by Man because he sees people in the world destroying what is of everybody. He asks what’s going on about sunrise, rain, fields, children, seas, animals and so; and he didn’t have any answers. He is defeated, he misses these simple things and he warns Man of the end of Mankind.

From his point of view, things have changed not only in nature but also in people’s mind. They are more and more greedy, they only feel worried about making war, money and material things. Man’s rights have been lost and it’s very hard to replace them.

I agree with Michael Jackson, it’s high time we did something and helped Earth but it’s harder when there are people who don’t care about it, it’s sad. And this is not a brand new problem, it has been lingering during decades and decades. Man’s evolution power is very strong but I believe that if every person tried to help each other and the Earth, we could live on a better place. We just need to learn how to live with powerful things and keep dignity.

WE NEED TO SAVE THE WORLD!




R.I.P Michael Jackson


Raquel Guerreiro

*11ºC no 28758

Treepeople: Andy Lipkis has sent us mail!

Dear Professor Serraninho and Students at Escola Secundaria c/3 ciclo de Diogo de Gouveia--Beja, Portugal,

I was wonderful to receive your letters via my friends Gilbert and Shirley Saint-Leon. They have known me and my parents since I was 8 or 9 years old.

I am so happy that you are studying ecology and the environment at your school. I wish that schools here in the United States were all doing that as well. I have spoken with some of the people in your government, especially concerning the terrible fires that seem to come every late summer/early autumn season both in Portugal and in Northern California. But I did not know that I and my Tree/People Organization were covered in your text book.

I have learned that next March Portugal is hoping to have a million volunteers working in your forests in an efforts to clean out old trees and plant new young trees to replace them. Perhaps you and your school mates will be taking part in this effort. It is the only way to prevent the forest from burning up.

The email for us is Treepeople.org, and our BLOG is attached.

Again, I want to thank each of you for writing to me. It made me very happy.

ANDY LIPKIS (President of TreePeople)

Global volunteers at school

Our school has hosted two wonderful Global Volunteers: Mr. and Mrs. Saint-Leon. They have enriched our lives with their stories and knowledge. On leaving back to Los Angeles they surprised us all by telling us they happened to know Andy Lipkis, the president of TREEPEOPLE, and we took the chance to congratulate him for the wonderful job he has been doing for the environment by writing him a letter that they would personally deliver and... guess what...! Andy Lipkis has already answered back.

Thank you so much Mr and Mrs Saint-Leon.