COD 2007 - S267

Re-writing Songs of Ourselves (set texts for IGCSE 2007 examinations)

IGCSE Literature teachers; teachers/schools who wish to introduce IGCSE English Literature in their curriculum.

2 sessions, start: 24-May

Course detail

Year: 2007
Level: Secondary
Language: English
Status: Postponed
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Eugenio López Arriazu PhD
Print course
ESSARP Schools
ARS
Exams Schools
ARS
Non affiliate
ARS 40.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 24 May 2007 05:30 pm 08:30 pm
2 07 June 2007 05:30 pm 08:30 pm

Facilitator/s

Eugenio López Arriazu

Eugenio is a Ph. D. in Literature from UBA. He graduated from I. S. P. Joaquín V. González as a teacher of English as a Foreign Language, and from the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UBA, as Licenciado en Letras and Profesor de Lengua y Literatura. He currently teaches American Literature and Slavic Literatures at the UBA. He has taught Introduction to Literature, American Literature, and English Literature I and II at several Teacher Training and Translator Training Institutions, as well as Literatures in English and Literary Theory at the Diplomatura Superior en Cs. del Lenguaje, I.S.P.J.V. González.
IGCSE Literature teachers; teachers/schools who wish to introduce IGCSE English Literature in their curriculum.
- To integrate creative writing to the language and literature class. - To provide IGCSE literature teachers with useful tools for the analysis of poetry. - To provide them with strategies to facilitate students' access to those texts. - To enhance critical thinking in both teachers and students.
The workshop will deal with poems from Songs of Ourselves, Section 3. In order to foster the students' awareness both of form and themes several creative writing activities will be carried out. Before dealing with the poems in the selection, participants will be encouraged to work out some assignments in order to break any potential "writer's block" and so set the group into the appropriate writing mood. After that, attendees will do specific activities, focused on abstraction and images, the rhythmical aspects of free verse, the creation of metaphors, awareness of sounds and the importance of first lines, among others. All these activities imply the free use of the imagination, comparisons between the student's production and the author's and re-writing of the author's poem. As a result of all the above mentioned exercises, the workshop ultimately points at encouraging a personal response to the poems, whose emotional effect the student should be able to account for in terms of both form and content.
The coordinator will play the role of facilitator in order to help attendees relax and use their creative potential. The workshop will be eminently a practical one. Teachers will be expected to write and participate actively, since a personal experience of the tasks is crucial for working later with the students. At the same time, attendees will be permanently encouraged to reflect on their own experiences and share their expectations of how the activities would work out with their own students.
Songs of Ourselves: The University of Cambridge International Examinations Anthology of Poetry in English (set selection of poems from section 3). Robin Behn & Chase Twichell (ed.) The Practice of Poetry. New York, Harper Perennial, 1992.
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