COD 2013 - S469

Approaching Keats' poetry (AS 2014/2015)

AS Literature teachers, Language and Literature teachers, Literature lovers.

1 sessions, start: 03-Jul

Course detail

Year: 2013
Level: Secondary
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Claudia Ferradas PhD
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ESSARP Schools
ARS
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Non affiliate
ARS 125.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 03 July 2013 05:30 pm 08:30 pm

Facilitator/s

Claudia Ferradas

Dr. Claudia Ferradas is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she got her first degree as a teacher of English at the Instituto de Enseñanza Superior en Lenguas Vivas “Juan Ramón Fernández”. She holds an MA in Education and Professional Development from the University of East Anglia and a PhD in English Studies from the University of Nottingham, UK. She is an experienced presenter and ELT author who travels the world as a teacher educator. She often works as a consultant for the British Council and Trinity College London. She is also a presenter for Oxford University Press and is an Oxford Teachers’ Academy Trainer.
In Argentina, she has taught language and literature at the Instituto de Enseñanza Superior en Lenguas Vivas “Juan Ramón Fernández”, Buenos Aires, where she was also “Regente del nivel superior”. She teaches on the MA programme in Literatures in English at the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza. She coordinates the literature and cultural programmes at ESSARP.
In the UK, Claudia has been a Visiting Fellow and research supervisor at the School of Languages, Leeds Metropolitan University, and is now a member of the NILE (Norwich Institute for Language Education) Advisory Board and the Extensive Reading Foundation committee.
Claudia has co-chaired the Oxford Conference on the Teaching of Literature on five occasions and has also worked as Project Manager for the Penguin Active Readers Teacher Support Programme. She has also taught on the MA programme in TEFL at the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Spain.
She is a member of the editorial committee of several journals: AJAL (Argentine Journal of Applied Linguistics); Revista Interdisciplinar de Formación Docente Kimün (Instituto de Formación Docente Continua, San Luis, Argentina); Conexión, Revista de Investigaciones y Propuestas Educativas (Instituto de Educación Superior N° 28 “Olga Cossettini”, Rosario, Argentina) and CLELE Journal (Children’s Literature in English Language Education).
AS Literature teachers, Language and Literature teachers, Literature lovers.
- To highlight the features of the Romantic movement that make it interesting and relevant to a contemporary reader.
- To discuss Keats' conception of poetry and a selection of his poems.
- To design ways of approaching Keats’ poetry on the AS class.
- The Romantic Imagination.
- Keats' conception of poetry.
- Analysis of poems:
When I have fears that I may cease to be
"Bright Star! Would I were steadfast as thou art"
To Sleep
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Ode to a Nightingale
To Autumn
La Belle Dame sans Merci
The Eve of St Agnes
- Activities for the AS class.
The facilitator will introduce the theoretical notions, guide the discussion of the different aspects described as "contents" and propose group work aimed at designing strategies to approach the poems in class.
- Selected Poems: Keats (Penguin Classics).
- Bowra, C.M (1966). The Romantic Imagination. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Watts, C.T. (1985). A Preface to Keats. London: Longman.
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