January 2021 Literature - Poetry

 

These are Knowledge and Understanding discussions so prior reading and consideration, and the sharing of personal views and experiences is expected. Each work is also available in "Response and Analysis",  Assessment Activities, "Practice and Feeback" and "Methodologies and Planning" support; please ask for details. A C1 or higher level is assumed.

Week One     Monday 4 - Friday 8 January 1.00 - 2.00pm daily
Session One : Maya Angelou, "Caged Bird"
Session Two :  Elizabeth Barrett Browning, "Sonnet 43"
Session Three : James K Baxter, "Farmhand"
Session Four : Sujata Bhatt, "Muliebrity"
Session Five : Isobel Dixon, "Plenty"

Week Two     Monday 11 - Friday 15 January 1.00 - 2.00pm daily
Session One : Rosemary Dobson, "The Three Fates"
Session Two : Robert Hayden, "Those Winter Sundays"
Session Three : Seamus Heaney, "Mid-Term Break"
Session Four : Mervyn Morris, "Little Boy Crying"
Session Five : Norman Nicholson, "Rising Five"

Week Three     Monday 18 - Friday 22 January 1.00 - 2.00pm daily
Session One : Adrienne Rich, "Amends"
Session Two : Edna St Vincent Millay, "Sonnet 29"
Session Three : Dennis Scott, "Marrysong"
Session Four : Stevie Smith, "Not Waving But Drowning"
Session Five : William Wordsworth, "She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways"

Week Four     Monday 25 - Friday 29 January 1.00 - 2.00pm daily
Session One : William Cowper, "The Poplar Field" 
Session Two :  Allen Curnow, "You Will Know When You Get There"
Session Three : Gerard Manley Hopkins, "The Caged Skylark"
Session Four : Elizabeth Jennings, "In Praise of Creation"
Session Five : tbd 

Each session considers one work chosen from Cambridge's IGCSE English Literature text list* and so are among the works studied worldwide by students at that level. These texts are challenging but accessible to those with a C1/C2, and you are reminded that it is "the task and not the text" which matters. These sessions provide introductory overviews and are not in-depth analyses nor methodology programmes.

The works are suitable for use with Cambridge IGCSE, AS-Level, IBMYP, IBDP and Advanced E2L / EFL classes.

Texts will be sent to participants the day prior to allow for pre-reading. Sessions will consider meaning and response, and possibly some analysis as time allows, and are delivered online via "Meet" so a gmail account is required.

This is a probable scope and sequence; we will let you know of any changes and improvements.

You can register for one session, one programme, five programmes, all 100 sessions or anything in between! Each session has a maximum size so first come, first served.

Presenter Robert Young has a Masters from Oxford, a Bachelors from Auckland, a New Zealand Diploma of Teaching and the RSA DELTA (now Cambridge DELTA). Prior to becoming an international, British, Cambridge and IB school Director, he was a middle and high school English Language and Literature and Journalism teacher in EFL, E2L, E1L, Cambridge International and IB schools.

*Poems come from Volumes One and Two of Songs of Ourselves : The University of Cambridge International Examinations Anthology of Poetry in English (Cambridge University Press)

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