COD 2012 - PS81

Paving the Way for IGCSE Poetry

Secondary School, Pre-IGCSE/IGCSE teachers.

1 sessions, start: 11-Apr

Course detail

Year: 2012
Level: Primary / Secondary
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Ms. María Cecilia Pena Koessler MA
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ARS 100.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 11 April 2012 05:30 pm 08:30 pm

Facilitator/s

María Cecilia Pena Koessler

Graduate Teacher of English at Primary level and at Secondary level from I.E.S en Lenguas Vivas "J. R. Fernández." Postgraduate course in Medieval and Renaissance Literature at I.E.S en Lenguas Vivas "J.R. Fernández." MA in Literary Linguistics (University of Nottingham) and Medieval Studies Master's degree student (UBA). She teaches English Literature I and Children and YA 's Literature at I.S.P. J.V.González and I.E.S. en Lenguas Vivas "J.R. Fernández" Teacher Training Colleges and IGCSE and IB literature at secondary schools. She has participated in research projects on Intercultural Awareness and Border Thery. She has co-authored "Little Stars" pre-primary series and "Our Stories" primary series for Pearson and designed creative writing and literature materials for other series (Pearson and Macmillan).
Secondary School, Pre-IGCSE/IGCSE teachers.
- To cease being afraid of dealing with poetry and to start appreciating the aesthetics and conciseness of poetry through the identification of the literary resources being used and their function.

- To recognize different ways in which poets achieve their effects through language structure and form.

- To interpret poems of different forms and from different periods and cultures.

- To train students to produce a critical commentary on a previously seen (IGCSE Part 1) and unseen poem (IGCSE Part 3).
Teachers will be introduced to a series of strategies to help them teach figures of speech and other literary devices used in poetry. By means of examples taken from "Songs of Ourselves" Part 4 and other set texts for 2012, 2013 and 2014, teachers will acquire a better understanding of these devices and how they embellish verses. Finally, teachers will be given tools to encourage students to choose poetry for the seen and unseen parts of the IGCSE exam.
This course will be delivered in a workshop mode for participants to enrich their understanding of the texts with contributions from the group. Teachers will be introduced to other poems and songs to help them illustrate and acquaint students with figures of speech and other literary devices.
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- Carter, Ronald, Angela Goddard, Danuta Reah, Keith Sanger, Maggie Bowring (1997 second edition 2001), Working with Texts: a core book for language analysis, London, Routledge.
- Wolosky, Shira (2001). The Art of Poetry: How to Read a Poem. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Lakoff, G. and Johnson, M. (1980) Metaphors We Live By. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
- Montgomery, Mazrtin, Alan Durant, Nigel Fabb, Tom Furnis and Sara Mills (2000). Ways of Reading: Advanced ReadingSkills for Students of English Literature. London: Routledge.
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