S344 - From Songs of Ourselves - section C: poems 96-109 inclusive (IGCSE Paper I and Paper IV Poetry 2010/11/12)

Sessions	Dates	Start	Finish
1	07 May 2010	05:30 PM	08:30 PM
2	21 May 2010	05:30 PM	08:30 PM
3	04 Jun 2010	05:30 PM	08:30 PM
4	18 Jun 2010	05:30 PM	08:30 PM

IGCSE literature teachers and poetry lovers.

The aim of this course will be to help teachers become less intimidated by the IGCSE Song of Ourselves poetry section in the belief that:
- as the themes of poetry are universal their students will be able to establish links between their world and the "world" of the poems.
- poetry is the genre which offers the greatest interpretive freedom.
- the conciseness of the poems will allow teachers to delve into their syntactic and lexical components in a short teaching period.

- Thomas Hardy, "The Voice"
- Allen Curnow, "Time"
- Mathew Arnold, "Dover Beach"
- Ted Hughes, "Full Moon and Little Frieda"
- Gillian Clarke, "Lament"
- John Keats: "The Grasshopper and the Cricket"
- Vachel Lindsay: "The Flower-fed Buffaloes"
- Boey Kim Cheng: "Report to Wordsworth"
- John Clare: "First Love"
- Dennis Scott: "Marrysong"
- George Gordon Lord Byron, "So, We'll Go No More A-Roving"
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnet 43
- ("How do I love thee. Let me count the ways!")
- Edna Saint Vincent Millay, Sonnet 29
- ("Pity me not because the light of day")

- "Teaching Poetry" from Elaine Showalter´s Teaching Poetry (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003) and "Rhetoric, Poetics and Poetry" from Jonathan Culler´s Literary Theory, A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 1997).
- Photocopies of both chapters will be available at ESSARP.

A blend of text-oriented and a reader-oriented approaches for participants to be able to respond as freely as possible to the words of each text.