COD 2008 - S288

Reading Songs of Ourselves: Strategies for the classroom

Literature teachers and litrature lovers.

3 sessions, start: 15-Apr

Course detail

Year: 2008
Level: Secondary
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Ms. Flavia Daniela Pittella
Print course
ESSARP Schools
ARS
Exams Schools
ARS
Non affiliate
ARS 80.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 15 April 2008 05:30 pm 08:30 pm
2 22 April 2008 05:30 pm 08:30 pm
3 29 April 2008 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 teachers and litrature lovers.
These sessions seek to help create a deeper understanding of poems and poetry in the belief that through personal understanding and enjoyment we will be able to help our students dive into the poems and find in them a world of images, echoes of their own life and a wider range of meanings and interpretations.
Session one: - Maya Angelou: Caged Bird. - Norman Nicholson: Rising Five. - Mervyn Morris: Little Boy Crying. - Carol Rumens: Carpet-weavers, Morocco. - Percy Bysshe Shelley: Song to the Men of England. - Arthur Hugh Clough: from Spectator ab Extra. Session two: - Hone Tuwhare: Monologue. - Charles Mungoshi: Before the Sun. - Sujata Bhatt: Muliebrity. - William Wordsworth: She dwelt among the untrodden ways. - James K. Baxter: Farmhand. - Isobel Dixon: Plenty. - Liz Lochhead: Storyteller. - Charles Lamb: The Old Familiar Faces. - Seamus Heaney: Mid-Term Break.
Workshop: participants will be encouraged to participate and express their own views on the poems as well as share and propose ways to deal with this work in class. At the same time, different techniques and ideas will be presented to help improve the teaching of poetry, especially ideas to help students in their international examinations.
The fifteen poems from the Poetry Anthology available at www.cie.org.uk/docs/dynamic/5842.pdf
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