Our students engaged in analysing this very epic last week within their Serbian language and literature lessons.

Our Serbian and arts teachers, Mirjana Vasic Adzic and Ana Manojlovic made an effort to make the artistic images from this epic reverberate in their minds for a long period of time. They connected the contents of their curricula in an interesting and creative way, demonstrating to their students how all school subjects are linked and intertwined.

Experimental lesson

Due to the interesting idea to express every panel (chapter) of the book graphically, students recalled the epic in an engaging and creative way.

By their artistic solutions and useful suggestions of their arts teacher, and unique interpretation of their Serbian teacher, our students let go to their visions and perceptions of the epic.

Our students’ works and their representation of the hero’s life events and their artistic contents are rather different, which goes on to prove that imagination is without limits.

This also proves that literary works, even though it appeared several thousand years b.c, can be inspirational and stimulating even today for artistic expression through various techniques.

Useful ideas for imaginative solutions

Considering the fact that the Epic of Gilgamesh was written in cuneiform script, our teachers reminded students to use this fact and mark all panels with numbers and letters that resemble this script.

In order to successfully imitate the features of Sumerian literature, our students had different accessories at their disposal – blue pigment that was supposed to represent the renowned lapis lazuli stone, pictures of god, and other ornaments they could use to embellish their works. They painted on real wood panels that were covered in paper.

Modern approach in lesson organisation

After such a creatively held lesson, our students could look forward to digital pictorial representation of this renowned literary work that involves topics and motifs that are equally close to a modern mas as well as to people that lived in the valleys of the Euphrates and the Tigris rivers several centuries b.c.

This is just a beginning of an interdisciplinary approach to teaching in Savremena, which will reflect in learning through games and developing creative potentials.

More pictures in our gallery.