COD 2007 - S277

Teaching Poetry to Teenagers: The magic that exists

Literature and ESL teachers.

1 sessions, start: 23-Aug

Course detail

Year: 2007
Level: Secondary
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Ms. Flavia Daniela Pittella
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ESSARP Schools
ARS
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Non affiliate
ARS 30.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 23 August 2007 05:30 pm 08:30 pm

Facilitator/s

Flavia Daniela Pittella

Ms. Flavia Pittella graduated from the University of La Plata as a Teacher of English Language and Literature. She is also Lic. in Ciencias Sociales, FLACSO, with special mention in Reading, Writing and Education. She has participated in international academic conferences and has published articles in different magazines. She holds several Postgraduate courses in literature and language teaching. For the past 20 years, she has taught ESL classrooms and ESL examinations for the IGCSE/AS Language and Literature. She has been a Reading group facilitator for over nine years. She is a cultural journalist at Radio Mitre and several other media. She has published "40 libros que adoro y no podes dejar de leer". Planeta, 2014. She writes regularly for Infobae Cultura. She is the director of “El tercer lugar: espacio cultural”.
Literature and ESL teachers.
Teaching poetry is like walking on shallow waters. Can poetry be taught? if it can, what do we mean by teaching it? that students enjoy it, that they learn to see the artcraft in it? that they don't hate our classes each time we come up with poems? Why do international exams insist on proposing poems to be analysed by teenagers? What kind of analysis are they expected to provide? We will try to examine all these questions and find ways of helping our students enjoy poetry with a relaxed, yet deep understanding of the genre.
- What is poetry? - Can poetry be taught? - Ways into poems: different activities to freshen up your classes and help students find their way into poems.
Workshop with pool of ideas and activities to help teachers lead the way in poetry classes.
- Benton, Michael (1992) Secondary Worlds, literature teaching and the visual arts. Buckingham/Philadelphia: Open Uiversity Press. - McRae, John (1991) Literature with a small "l". London: Macmillan. - Ferradas Moi, Claudia (1994) Rock Poetry in the Creative Language Classroom. Buenos Aires: DL Books. - Phillips Josephine (1995) Poems - Deep and Dangerous. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. - The Best Poetry Album in the Wolrd Ever (CD) ABM.
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