COD 2006 - S190

Poems: Deep and Dangerous (IGCSE Set Text 2006)

Language and Literature Teachers. IGCSE Teachers.

3 sessions, start: 23-May

Course detail

Year: 2006
Level: Secondary
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Ms. Susana Gullco Groisman
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Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 23 May 2006 05:30 pm 08:30 pm
2 30 May 2006 05:30 pm 08:30 pm
3 06 June 2006 05:30 pm 08:30 pm

Facilitator/s

Susana Gullco Groisman

She graduated with distinction in British History and Literature from the Instituto Superior del Profesorado "Dr. Joaquín V. González" and was a lecturer in Contemporary British Literature in her alma mater institution for forty years (having gone through competition to obtain tenure in 1975). She has been a guest speaker at numerous educational centres in our country. She is the former Head of the English Department at the I.S.P."J. V. González" and former President of APIBA. At present she belongs to the team of Literature lecturers at the English Speaking Scholastic Association of the River Plate Centre.
Language and Literature Teachers. IGCSE Teachers.
- To compare and contrast Sections 1, 2, and 3 in the collection to see the balance between form and meaning. - To approach the text to encourage an appreciation and enjoyment of the poems. - To suggest different activities suitable for IGCSE level.
Session 1 Poems: Wole Soyinka; Telephone Conversation. Fleur Adcock; Bogyman. John Keats; La Belle Dame sans Merci. Sylvia Plath; Balloons. Session 2 Poems: Norman MacCaig; Writing a Letter. Philip Larkin; Essential Beauty. R.S.Thomas; The Film of God. Sylvia Kantaris; Snapshotland. Tony Harrison; Background Material. Frank Chipasula; Manifesto on Ars Poetica. Session 3 Poems: Charlotte Mew; The Trees are Down. D.H.Lawrence; Mountain Lion. Thomas Hardy; Fallow Deer at the Lonely House. Margaret Atwood; A Holiday. Sujata Bhatt; Kankaria Lake. See intructions for previosu reading below. Note: Before the first meeting please take the following guidelines into account and follow the instructions. - Read each poem aloud twice. - Jot down your feelings after you've done this. Try to express what or how you feel. - Look at the title of the poem; then at the lay-out of the poem. Observe if there is a possible connection between these aspects and the poem. -What's the context of situation? Factual information. - Is the speaker addressing the reader/listener? If s/he does, what does this do to you? - Lexical stance (words in themselves). Are there any ambiguities? Symbols? Tropes? (Metaphor-synecdoche-metonymy-allusions-personification) Images (a single one? - a cluster of images?) - Syntactical level: - How is thought organized? Number of sentences and organization (sometimes a key idea is repeated with variations or expanded. Sometimes there's a question-and-answer pattern) Are there run-on lines or end-stopped ones? - Rhetorical figures. (Rhetoric: the art or science of using words effectively in speaking or writing, so as to influence or to persuade): apostrophe - rhetorical question - chiasmus - zeugma - hyperbole - understatement - litotes - anaphora - epiphora - ploce - polysyndeton - asyndeton -hyperbaton. - Phonological level Alliteration, rhyme pattern, assonance, consonance, onomatopoeia. - Rhythm Meter (iambic, trochaic, etc.) - Theme and Tone What does the poem seem to do? Is it describing an emotion, a mood or stressing ideas which offer insight into life, death, the human condition? What's the literary speaker's attitude to his/her listener? Light or serious, formal or intimate, outspoken or reticent, simple or abstruse, Loving of angry, serious or ironic, obsequious or condescending. Methodology: Group and pair work. See intructions for previosu reading below.
- Birch, D. (1996) Language, Literature and Critical Practice. .London: Routledge. - Blake, N. (1990). An Introduction to the Language of Literature. London: Macmillan. - Bradford R. (1997). Stylistics. London & New York: Routledge. - Carter, R. & McRae, J. (1997) The Routledge History of Literature in English. Britain & Ireland. London & New York: Routledge. - Ferradas Moi, C. & Pena Lima, B. (2002) Words on Words Teaching Contemporary U.K. Literature. Buenos Aires: British Council Argentina.
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