COD 2025 - D697
Webinar - Songs of Ourselves Volume 1, Part 4 (IGCSE 0475 2023-2025)
IGCSE literature teachers and poetry lovers
4
sessions, start: 07-Apr
Please enrol before Wednesday, April 2nd 2025
Course detail
Year: 2025
Level: Secondary
Language: Spanish
Status: Announced
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Sra. Beatriz Koessler
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Sessions
| Sessions | Dates | Start | Finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 07 April 2025 | 05:30 pm | 07:30 pm |
| 2 | 28 April 2025 | 05:30 pm | 07:30 pm |
| 3 | 05 May 2025 | 05:30 pm | 07:30 pm |
| 4 | 12 May 2025 | 05:30 pm | 07:30 pm |
Facilitator/s
Beatriz Koessler
IGCSE literature teachers and poetry lovers
The aim of this course will be to help teachers gain confidence and insight into the richness of poetry in the belief that:
- as the themes of poetry are universal their students will be able to draw parallels between the emotions, situations and ideas in the poems and their own world by using current events or relatable experiences, fostering deeper engagement.
- poetry is the genre which offers the greatest interpretive freedom. Teachers can encourage students to embrace various perspectives, focusing on how different readers might find different meanings in the same lines.
- the conciseness of the poems will allow teachers to delve into their syntactic and lexical components in a short teaching period by breaking down dense passages into manageable chunks.
- the section provides students with a wide range of styles and themes, roughly covering poems written over four centuries.
- as the themes of poetry are universal their students will be able to draw parallels between the emotions, situations and ideas in the poems and their own world by using current events or relatable experiences, fostering deeper engagement.
- poetry is the genre which offers the greatest interpretive freedom. Teachers can encourage students to embrace various perspectives, focusing on how different readers might find different meanings in the same lines.
- the conciseness of the poems will allow teachers to delve into their syntactic and lexical components in a short teaching period by breaking down dense passages into manageable chunks.
- the section provides students with a wide range of styles and themes, roughly covering poems written over four centuries.
From Songs of Ourselves Volume 1, Part 4, the following 15 poems:
Margaret Atwood, "The City Planners"
Boey Kim Cheng, "The Planners"
Thom Gunn, "The Man with Night Sweats"
Robert Lowell, "Night Sweat"
Edward Thomas, "Rain"
Anne Stevenson, "The Spirit is too Blunt an Instrument"
Tony Harrison, "From Long Distance"
W H Auden, "Funeral Blues"
Thomas Hardy, "He Never Expected Much"
Fleur Adcock, "The Telephone Call"
Peter Porter, "A Consumer's Report"
Judith Wright, "Request To A Year"
Charles Tennyson Turner, "On Finding a Small Fly Crushed in a Book"
Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Ozymandias"
Stevie Smith, "Away, Melancholy"
These may be found in Songs of Ourselves Volume 1: The University of Cambridge International Examinations Anthology of Poetry in English (Cambridge University Press).
Margaret Atwood, "The City Planners"
Boey Kim Cheng, "The Planners"
Thom Gunn, "The Man with Night Sweats"
Robert Lowell, "Night Sweat"
Edward Thomas, "Rain"
Anne Stevenson, "The Spirit is too Blunt an Instrument"
Tony Harrison, "From Long Distance"
W H Auden, "Funeral Blues"
Thomas Hardy, "He Never Expected Much"
Fleur Adcock, "The Telephone Call"
Peter Porter, "A Consumer's Report"
Judith Wright, "Request To A Year"
Charles Tennyson Turner, "On Finding a Small Fly Crushed in a Book"
Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Ozymandias"
Stevie Smith, "Away, Melancholy"
These may be found in Songs of Ourselves Volume 1: The University of Cambridge International Examinations Anthology of Poetry in English (Cambridge University Press).
A blend of text-oriented and reader-oriented approaches can create a dynamic and open-ended way for participants and their students to engage with poetry. This approach allows for both a deep analysis of the poem itself and the freedom to connect personally with the text.
Articles on the different poems will be recommended along the course.