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2. Where?PENTAPOLIS LYKEIO 3. When? Spring term 2011-2012 8 teaching hours 4. Why? The nature of Upper secondary education and ELT Adding a different perspective to the necessity forEnglish Language Teaching Teacher collaboration (Open class) Need for personal and professional development 5. The Stimulus The school self evaluationproject 6. The 3rd Grade Literature course book(core programme of general education) 7. USURY: The illegal action or practice of lending money at unreasonably high rates of interest. 8. The poet: Ezra Pound 1885-1972 9. What is this project?An attempt to expose learners to a considerableamount of language through stimulatingcontent, synthesizing already existing knowledgeand putting it in a new context.Students will (hopefully) explore this content & willbe engaged in appropriate language-dependantactivities, developing at the same time criticalthinking skills and reflecting on major social andhistorical issues. 10. What is it not? We did not try to analyze poetry exhaustively in terms of stylistic and linguistic items. The foreign language was the vehicle in this journey not the destination. We did not want to teach poetry for its own sake either. This is not a literature course. 11. LEARNING OBJECTIVES Knowledge Skills (learning and life skills) Attitudes 12. MATERIALSthe literature course book of the 3rd grade,worksheets,pen and paper / whiteboardvideos, a projector, the internet 13. BIBLIOGRAPHY the Norton Anthology of American literature 1987 www.wikipedia.org 14. CLASSROOM ARRANGEMENT 15. METHODOLOGY THE 4 Ds Diachronic approach Dialogue Doing and learning Discovery 16. PROCESS Step-by-Step 4 lessons/2 teaching hours each Activities http://zunal.com/webquest.php?w=155702 17. 1st LESSON (2 H) The poet and his era A slave is one who waits for someone to come andfree him If a nations literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays Activities: brainstorming, reading andcomprehension questions, gap filling, debate, freeconversation 18. 2ND LESSON The poet and his works I have tried to write A GIRLParadise (Canto CXX) The tree has entered my(1958) hands,Do not moveThe sap has ascended myLet the wind speak arms,that is paradise.The tree has grown in my breast -Let the Gods forgive whatDownward,IThe branches grow out ofhave mademe, like arms.Let those I love try toforgiveTree you are,what I have made. Moss you are, You are violets with wind above them. A child - so high - you are, And all this is folly to the world. 19. 3RD LESSON Poem analysis (1909) ( Personae) WITH USURA Activities: make a list, true/false, role-playing 20. 4TH LESSON Extension & Evaluation The Seven Deadly Sins Activities: language activities, writing a poem 21. THE SEVEN DEADLYSINS(By Hieronymous Bosch) 22. THE STUDENTS WROTEOur ParadiseYou and I have a dream In the beach at nightIt is blue and it is green Under the stars and theIt is like a butterflymoonWith colours from the skyIn your hug, that time I gave a sweet kiss to youOur paradise belongsTo the people of the worldIn the eyes of an angelWhich is called LoveGod 23. , , 24. , , , ! , , 25. . . 26. BENEFITS , , , . , . - 7 - , . . 27. , , . . . . , , . 28. . . . . 29. , . , , , . , . . 30. , . . . . 31. . Ezra Pound. . , , 7 , . . . 32. , , . 33. . . . 34. . , . . . 35. . . . . . .. 36. (), . . 37. ( ) . , . . 38. , . 39. PROBLEMS TIME CONSUMING (TO PREPARE) STUDENT WORKLOAD RELUCTANCE FOR HW 40. THE WEBQUEST http://zunal.com/webquest.php?w=1557 02
