COD 2020 - D262

Webinar - Poetry for (Pre)Teens: Working your way to IGCSE poetry: A Workshop

Primary-(Junior) Secondary Language / Literature School-teachers, school librarians

2 sessions, start: 12-Jun

Course detail

Year: 2020
Level: Primary / Secondary
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: Distance
Facilitator/s: Ms. Susana Fiordalizzi MA
Print course
ESSARP Schools
Free of charge
Exams Schools
ARS 2400.00
Non affiliate
ARS 2400.00

Sessions


Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 12 June 2020 05:30 pm 07:00 pm
2 26 June 2020 05:30 pm 07:00 pm

Facilitator/s

Susana Fiordalizzi

Graduate teacher of English from I.N.S.P. en Lenguas Vivas "J. R. Fernández". She did a posgraduate course in English Nineteenth & Twentieth Century Literature at I.E.S. en Lenguas Vivas "J. R. Fernández". She holds an MA degree in Literary Linguistics with the University of Nottingham. She has taught English Literature at IB level. She is currently tenured teacher of Children's Literature at I.E.S. "J. V. González". She has been teaching English Language courses for adolescents and young adults for over twenty years.
Primary-(Junior) Secondary Language / Literature School-teachers, school librarians
- To introduce short texts (poems) which will generate language production, by discussing reading and textual intervention strategies and activities.
- To provide a variety of strategies to use poetry in the class as a triggering element for Literary/Language analysis and enjoyment.
- To provide Language/Literature teachers and librarians with background information about authors and texts being used and read nowadays in schools in English-speaking countries.
- To provide teachers with reading strategies that will allow them to work with their students on the poems, in preparation for the analysis of future IGCSE poetry sets.
Variety of poems (Narrative, Lyrical, Dramatic poetry, Haikus, Contemporary poetry, Ballads, etc.) to be analysed.
The participants will use these texts to design classroom materials.

NO PREVIOUS READING OF MATERIAL IS REQUIRED

The Participants will be provided with the material in the course. Due to the length of the texts used (short texts) the reading and analysis will be done during the course.
The course will be delivered via Zoom (distance course)

The sessions will be organized in terms of workshops for participants to enrich their understanding of the texts with contributions from the group. They will discuss the target audience for each text, points of entry, textual interventions and intertextual links which can be established with other verbal or visual texts.
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• McRae, John. Literature with a small "l". Hong Kong: Macmillan, 1991.
• Made to Measure: A selection of works by British writers with activities for young
learners, 2007. British Council Argentina.
• Creative Ways: Teaching Materials from the Literature Department of the British Council. (Retrieved from https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/creative-ways, March 16th 2017)
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