COD 2021 - D437

Webinar - Sonnets Tell Stories

This course is directed to Literature, Language and Drama Teachers interested in introducing and approaching Sonnets actively and from a different perspective

1 sessions, start: 09-Jun

Course detail

Year: 2021
Level: Distance
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: Distance
Facilitator/s: Ms. Susan Cocimano
Print course
ESSARP Schools
Free of charge
Exams Schools
ARS 1800.00
Non affiliate
ARS 1800.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 09 June 2021 05:30 pm 07:00 pm

Facilitator/s

Susan Cocimano

Drama Teacher/Trainer, Susan specialises in drama and creativity; tools that enable a novel insight for teaching and learning creatively across the curriculum. She holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching Shakespeare from the University of Warwick. Her aim is to encourage both teachers and students to experience Shakespeare in a more dynamic and challenging manner, introducing new techniques and skills. Susan was Coordinator of the Arts Department in secondary at Cardinal Newman (2009-2016) and taught Drama in Education at St. Trinnean Teacher's College (2001-2017). She is a Cambridge Speaking Examiner and co-founder of Full Circle English.
This course is directed to Literature, Language and Drama Teachers interested in introducing and approaching Sonnets actively and from a different perspective
- Approaching Sonnets: Teacher’s aims
- Discover and reach a more solid understanding of a sonnet and its characteristic shape
- Explore the different types of rhyme
- Discover sonnets as a way of expressing feelings
- Find the stories and characters behind, bringing them to life using drama activities
- Attempt writing a sonnet
- Improve skills – working together
- Increase enjoyment, inspiration and creativity
Sonnets continue to influence writers today. Over the centuries, women and men have extended and transformed the sonnet to allow their voices to be heard. Many different kinds of sonnets are being written today and we will read sonnets addressing familiar themes in contemporary language.
Yet there is more to a sonnet than its structure. A sonnet is also an argument, a story, a deep feeling that builds up in a particular way.
Full of metaphors that relate and move from one to another in order to give us the final picture.
During this workshop, teachers will go through a wide range of activities, techniques and strategies that can be done online and/or in class.
Approaching sonnets in a friendly way, finding the story behind, writing a script, developing characters, exploring language.
All these activities, key themes and motifs will be explored through different types of sonnets.
Aagesen, Colleen, Blumberg, Margie, 1999, Shakespeare for kids. Chicago review Press, USA
Fuzier, Jean, Les Sonnets de Shakespeare, 1970. Armand Colins, Paris
Whitson, Valerie, Editor, 1996, New Ways of using Drama and Literature in Language Teaching. New ways in TESOL, Inc.
No Fear Shakespeare, Sonnets, 2004, Spark Notes
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