HOME HISTORY WALTER TOBAGI GALLERY BIBLIOGRAPHY ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The Years of Lead HOME HISTORY WALTER TOBAGI GALLERY BIBLIOGRAPHY ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Literary reflection “How do you explain to a child that his dad was killed? Of course you can start with a long premise made up of problems and perspectives: you can blur things ... but the fact will never find a reason to appease you ... that loss, that pain only yours will not stop being irreparable. All his life ... he tried to get a less blurry image of his father as possible ... because nothing could ... cure his pain ... but maybe there was still something that could save him from anger ... the story, then " G. Fontana, Death of a happy man, Sellerio, Palermo, 2016 Milan: evolution of terrorism in the 70s and 80s. The death of Walter Tobagi INTRODUCTION - METHODOLOGY The proposal to participate in the competition and to deepen track 1 was made to us by our new literature teacher prof. Barbara Balsarini in the very first part of the year, when we still did not know each other. Initially there were many uncertainties and perplexities, but we decided quickly enough to join, also stimulated by the idea of making a topic of contemporary history that we had heard a little about in the family. The first step was the introductory lesson of Dr. Mastretta who presented us with the general overview, then resumed in a schematic way in the classroom by our teacher. The material was huge. How to orient us? THE CHOICE The proposal to deepen the figure of the Milanese journalist Walter Tobagi and the Milan of those years came to us from prof. He told us about him, about the young age at which he was killed, about the fact that he was killed for what he wrote and represented, about the little children he left behind and how both, perhaps most obviously Benedetta Tobagi with her book "How your heart beats fast" and with his testimony with respect to his brother, they always wanted to remember that father they knew so little, taking care of his memory, but also to explain how a son grows up in this situation. We were older than them at the time, but we felt involved. Then we were struck by the question of the repentant, which we linked to the issues of the mafia and this violent Milan of the 70s and early 80s, THE CHOICE OF THE PRODUCT No doubt on this point: we are following a computer science course, we love computer science, therefore: a website, choosing tk for obvious reasons of practicality. THE METHOD We met at school a few afternoons to decide on the structure of the site, which is what you will find by opening it, the choice of images and more generally the aesthetic appearance. Then we divided the tasks: each of us explored an aspect of the problem, at the research level, on the various websites by sharing and discussing the material online or taking advantage of some downtime at school and using the class IWB. We have consulted some paper texts, which you can find in the bibliography, to better "cut" the problem. In the final part we have, always discussing the choices together, assembled everything and given the site its final appearance. CONCLUSION It was a demanding job, our prof. he told us that we will present it to the class anyway to add to our program a topic of contemporary history that we will set aside for the fifth program. We do not know if we will win, but we think it was useful to get to know an aspect of Italian history that is new to us and to start learning how to do research. © 2016 Classe III BI - ITIS Fauser, Novara