MULTIDISCIPLINARY PROJECT

                                                   ACTIVITIES THAT YOU HAVE TO DO

1. Read and understand the information below.
2.Answer the questions just from activity 1 individually.
3.Hand in this developed work in the English copybook on Friday 7th.

Activity 1 – Background information (individual activity)

Let’s go back in time to August 20^th, 1757. The President of the Real Audiencia de Quito applies the mandate by which the King of Spain, Charles III, decrees to expel all members of the Society of Jesus from Spanish territories, including the Spanish America. Two hundred sixty nine Jesuits were expelled from Ecuador victims of Charles’ III mandate.

The mandate also decreed that any Jesuit who, without the King's express leave, returned to Spanish dominions under any pretext, even that of having resigned from the society and being absolved from the vows, would be treated as an outlaw, incurring in, if a layman, the penalty of death; and, if a priest, that of confinement.

On May 28^th, 1815, a royal decree abrogated Charles’ III mandate, and allowed the re-establishment of the Society of Jesus in all Spanish territories. However, and despite of the people’s will, by 1850 no Jesuits had come to Ecuador yet. On the contrary, in 1852, President José M. Urbina, expelled a group of Jesuits who had come after being inhumanly expelled from Colombia in 1851.

Answer the following questions. Please remember to answer with complete sentence. (10 points - 2 points each):

1.       What was the purpose of the mandate that was decreed in 1757? Who was the King at that time?

2.       What could happen to the Jesuits that stayed or returned to any Spanish territory at that time?

3.       What did 1815 royal decree do?

4                                4.   .         Did people support the Society of Jesus to be re-established in Ecuador?

5.       What happened to the Jesuits who arrived to Ecuador in 1951?

Deadline: March 7, 2014

Activity 2 – The Legacy of the Society of Jesus (group activity)

Now it is 1862, the Jesuits are called to come back to Ecuador by President Gabriel García Moreno. On March 28, the first Jesuits arrive in Guayaquil and they are assigned to undertake an important mission: the development of education in the country.

Each group will be assigned an important work undertaken by the Jesuits who arrived in Quito in the XVI and XIX centuries: The Church of the Society of Jesus, the Escuela Politécnica Nacional, the Colegio San Gabriel, the Observatorio Astronómico.

Objective: Get to know four of the most important work undertaken by the Society of Jesus in Quito and analyze how that work has contributed to our society until nowadays.

1.       Essay and exposition:

a.       You will have to visit the place that you have been assigned and become an expert on it. After gathering all the information write an essay and prepare an exposition to share the most important information with you classmates.

b.      When you visit the site ask for information about it to help you answer the following general questions:

·         What is it?

·         When was it founded?

·         Who was/were its founders?

·         Important facts about the site.

·         Curious facts or anecdotes about the site.

c.       Before visiting the site, think of 5 questions that you think will be relevant to ask in the place you will visit.

d.      With all the information that you collect you will have to write an essay that you will organize as follows:

                                                  i.      Introduction: (120 words – 2 points)

Give general information to introduce the place that you visited:

·         What is it?

·         Where is it located?

·         When was it founded?

·         Who founded it?

                                                ii.      Body: (400 words – 5 points)

You should include the following information:

·         Important facts about the site you visited (including the answers to your questions and the extra information you are given).

·         Curious facts or anecdotes about the site.

                                              iii.      Conclusion: (130 words – 2 points)

You should answer the following questions:

·         Why was this place important in the time when it was founded and why is it important nowadays?

·         How has this place contributed to the Ecuadorian society?

                                               iv.      Bibliography ( 1 point)

Due dates:

Essay: March 14, 2014

Expositions: from April 23 to April 25

2.       Log -book

The log-book will be your final product. It should contain all the evidence and descriptions of your visit. In the log-book you should keep:

a.       Notes and descriptions of your visit.

b.      Evidence of your visit or visits (date/s, name/s, signature and/or stamp of the place/person/s who gave you the information).

c.       Poster, leaflets and/or brochures with information (if you are given any).

d.      Pictures (with descriptions) of your visit showing the place in the outside and in the inside; any material (books, pictures, etc) that was shown to you.

e.      Short summaries of the information included in your essay (after the essay is corrected).

f.        Other information that you are given at the site.

Due date: May 7, 2014

3.       Assessment:

·         Essay + reading comprehension: 10 points

·         Exposition: 10 points

·         Log-book: 10 points