Resources everywhere, not more boring text books!

Hello everybody! This week we are writing our last post. We have already full this blog with a huge amount of resources related to English literature that could be perfectly used with our future students. Because of that, I wanted to summarise them and at the same time try to reflect on them and the […]

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The Continuity of Activities

Hello, I´m Jaime and today I´m writing about the class of this week. Before starting the description of the activities we did during that class, I have to say as an introduction that during the previous weeks we have seen loads of different ways about how to include poetry in classrooms. On Monday, our teacher […]

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A great publication. The Poetry Toolkit

It is especially remarkable the love-hate relationship that some students have with poetry. That is, in general terms, we like to talk about feelings and emotions, and it is great to read about this in literary texts such as poems. However, it is not so good for some of us to study these compositions. From […]

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POETESS BY SURPRISE

Hi everyone! If you read my last post two weeks ago, you will remember that I was talking about poetry. In short I wanted to transmit the idea of poetry as a cross-curricular activity which can be used in other subject with different purposes. However, as most of the times, during the last middle group […]

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THE POETRY DAY

THE POETRY DAY Hi, Today I’m going to write a post about what we did during the middle group class on Monday. The topic of the class was poetry and the different ways to take advantage of it. The class can be divided in different parts: In the first part, the teacher gave us some […]

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How to be a good poetry performance!

Hello everyone! In my fourth post I want to write about poetry because I am sure that almost until now, most of us didn’t think so much about it. First of all, I want to start with a question: do you think that it is possible be a good poetry performance? Well, in my case, […]

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Poetry in science class

Hello everyone! I am here again, this time to talk about this “awful” word poetry that we often relate to high school, hidden meanings and lists of names and more names to remember about famous authors of our literature. On Monday during the middle group we have been working with poetry in class. I am […]

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PoeTRY!

Poetry… This is a stimulating word. When you hear or read this word, it might remind you to some historical authors, or maybe to some of the most famous poems in literature… But, is there someone that thinks of a really fun and motivating time that had at school? This is a challenge for us! […]

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