COD 2018 - S607

Robert Frost - Selection of Poems (AS Literature Set Text 2018/2019/2020)

AS Literature teachers and poetry lovers

4 sessions, start: 05-Apr

Course detail

Year: 2018
Level: Secondary
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Ms. Julia Fernández Armendariz, Mrs. Maria Victoria Llera
Print course
ESSARP Schools
Free of charge
Exams Schools
ARS 500.00
Non affiliate
ARS 500.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 05 April 2018 05:30 pm 08:30 pm
2 19 April 2018 05:30 pm 08:30 pm
3 03 May 2018 05:30 pm 08:30 pm
4 17 May 2018 05:30 pm 08:30 pm

Facilitator/s

Julia Fernández Armendariz

Julia Fernández Armendariz graduated as an English teacher from IES en Lenguas Vivas Juan R. Fernández, where she also completed specialisation courses in English Literature and British History. She holds a BA in Education from Universidad Nacional de Quilmes and a Postgraduate Certificate in English Studies from The University of Nottingham, England. Her areas of specialty include Postcolonial Studies, Border Theory and Historical Fiction. She teaches Literature II and Cultural Studies at IES en Lenguas Vivas "Juan R. Fernández", and English Literature and Culture at ENS en Lenguas Vivas "Sofia B. Spangenberg". She also works at Secondary school level.

Maria Victoria Llera

Victoria Llera is a Graduate Teacher of English from I. E. S en Lenguas Vivas "J. R. Fernández" and holds a BA in English Language from the University of San Martín. She is currently specializing in English Literature II and Literary Movements of the Twentieth Century at the I.E.S.L.V. “Juan Ramón Fernández” while teaching IGCSE/AS at Colegio Jesus Maria, Recoleta. She has taught IB Language B and has been working at the University of Buenos Aires, School of Philosophy and Letters, teaching language and delivering courses on Postcolonial Literature for the last six years.
AS Literature teachers and poetry lovers
- To help teachers become less intimidated by the poetry selection in AS exams, since the thematic concerns and possible multiple interpretations provide freedom in the links that can be established between the world of the poems and one’s own.
- To promote a contextual and stylistic analysis of the poems.
- To provide literature teachers with ideas and possible pathways to analyse and work with the poems in preparation for the AS Literature Exam.
- To discuss ways of facilitating students’ reading and interpretation of the poems.
The following 20 poems by Robert Frost:
- “Mowing”
- “Mending Wall”
- “The Death of the Hired Man”
- “Home Burial”
- “The Black Cottage”
- “After Apple-Picking”
- “The Wood-Pile”
- “The Road Not Taken”
- “Birches”
- “The Cow in Apple Time”
- “An Encounter”
- “Out, Out-“
- “The Sound of Trees”
- “The Ax-Halve”
- “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
- “Two Look at Two”
- “Gathering Leaves”
- “A Soldier”
- “There are Roughly Zones”
- “An Unstamped Letter in our Rural Letter Box”
- Guided group reflection, analysis and exchange of ideas and possible activities for each poem.
- Focus on devices that make up the style of the author, allowing for debates on techniques and language that carry through the different poems.
- Articles on specific poems will be provided along the course.
- Croft, S. (ed.) (2011) Robert Frost. Selected Poems. Oxford: OUP.
- Faggen, R. (2008) The Cambridge Introduction to Robert Frost. Cambridge: CUP.
- Wilcox, E. and Barron, J. (ed.) (2000) Roads not Taken. Rereading Robert Frost. University of Missouri Press.
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