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091. 11 - To take possession of the ’King’s trail’ in the space and time of the garden
vendredi 7 septembre 2018
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PROJECT
To motivate the learning of transversal and key competences of disadvantaged learners by exploiting the texts and plans of the ’King’s Trail’, ascribed to King Louis XIV and rewritten four times.
It is used as vehicle to get competences in the following fields :
- mother tongue
- space-time relationship

PUBLIC
This methodological approach was experimented in the Gardens of Versailles and of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (France) by European teachers on the occasion of a peer-to-peer training course mobility in Saint-Germain-en-Laye (France) from June 4 to 8, 2019

KEY COMPETENCES
- Communication in the mother tongue
- Social competences and citizenship
- Humanist culture and expression of sensitivity

OBJECTIVES
- To build up a relationship with time and space by moving through the Garden of Versailles and using identification tools
- To build up some personal keys for the identification of the garden : its structure, use, formal aspects connected to the period when it was built. To be able to use tools and keys in other contexts
- To acquire confidence, learn how to express and uphold your own opinion, establish a dialogue with the people around

GARDENS EXPLORED
The sections of the Garden of Versailles (Petit Parc) and of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (Terrace and Parterre built by André Le Notre) developed during the reign of Louis XIV.

MATERIALS
- Cameras and compass
- Maps of the gardens of Versailles
- See the simplified text of the "Route" proposed by King Louis XIV Way to show the gardens of Versailles
- The interactive garden plan to download
- Some pictures of the gardens on Louis XIV’s time See these pictures in "Galerie des Jardins" on line

DEVELOPMENT
Communication around the text written by Louis XIV. Read and understand the writings

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- Reading aloud : sharing among learners the reading of the various phases of the itinerary. Each reader will embody the voice of the king
- Comprehension of the text : appreciating its comprehension through oral debates, exchanges, upholding personal opinions
- Make some hypotheses on the role of the text at the time when it was issued : for instance, the activation of the ’Grand Fountains’ at the passage of the king and then closed again after it. Discuss the ways they moved around at the time showing some documents : horseback, etc. ; several tableau representing the king and his court.
- Give your opinion about the present interest around the text : a track game for the public moving in the steps of Louis XIV and experiment the King’s track

To locate oneself and objects in time and space
- Locating the town of Versailles on the satellite map and the Petit Parc on the map of the gardens. Understaning and use the geographical scale.
- Relating the text attributed to Louis XIV ’Manière de montrer les jardens de Versailles’ to the map of the garden and the itinerary experimented. Retracing the chronology of the text by comparing it with the map. Highlighting n the map the phases of the king’s itinerary as described in the text.
- Walking along the king’s tracks. Four groups will be formed to show four different itineraries embodying in turns the royal guide to show the royal gardens of Versailles along four different trails
1 From the Marble Court to the Orangerie
2 From Letona’s to Apollo’s basin
3 From Apollo’s basin to the Water Theatre
4 From the Marais to the Northern Parterre.
- Use of the compass,
- Retrace the past trails
- Take note, draw, photograph places and monuments mentioned in the text.

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- Take pictures of the places where the king would stop : panoramic views, great perspectives….
- Take note of the differences between the landscape today and the descriptions made by Louis XIV.
- Be aware of the transformations occurred in the park (particularly of those provoked by the storm in 1999).

- Push forward the competences linked to humanistic culture : recognise and locate the garden and its representations in their historical, geographical and cultural context.

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Ask the learners questions about their favourite places in the gardens. Invite them to uphold their opinions and to
- identify and analyse their emotions
- link the garden to their personal experience. Compare their answers with the vision of Beauty during the age of Louis XIV handed down by the documents studied. Observe the pictures taken along the trails in the places mentioned by the king. Make hypotheses on the king’s favourite one. Comparing the various preferences enhances the comprehension of the concept of Beauty as conceived in different times and cultures.

EXTENSION
- Report the different steps of the trail on an online notebook. Read the garden notebook of a trainer realized during a training mobility at Versailles. See the garden notebook realised by a trainer during the trainig mobility of Versailles
- Reuse the approach present in the ’King’s Trail’ and write a personal or collective guide ’A way to show the gardens’ of your choice. Individually or collectively draft a short text describing a recommended trail through the garden at your will.

[Read the garden notebook « A way to show the Carmen de la Victoria of Granada’ produced in Granada on the occasion of a training mobility >http://www.paysage-patrimoine.eu/sp…]

EVALUATION
It takes into account the ability to :
- communicate in the mother tongue : read and comprehend, orally report the content the texts and the captions of the plans. Carry out dialogue, debates, exchanges ; uphold your opinion for a better self-image

- locate and locate yourself in time and space. Find yourself and places on a map using plans, texts, compass, etc. Distinguish the time of history from one of a story ; master the narrative chronology ; be able to organize a story

- recognise and collocate the gardens of Versailles 1) in their historical, geographical context 2)in their cultural context and the history of art

- develop self-confidence and social competences : dialogue with others, dare to speak, exchange opinions and preferences

See an educational itinerary in the gardens of Versailles proposed for the youth by the educational team of the Castle

AUTHOR
Aline Rutily
Association Paysage et Patrimoine sans frontière, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France

TRANSLATER
Mary Gino
Association Acquamarina, Trieste, Italie

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