TL Session 4

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• HBO
• Studiejaar 4

Welcome to Teaching Literature session 4.
From which poem and poet is the following quote?
"Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,
And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds."

Today's session

• Recap previous sessions
• Explore pre, during, and post activities
• Formulating language and civic aims
• Evaluation
• Next week

Reminder: Aim and SC of the module

At the end of the module, students will be able to present pedagogic arguments for teaching literature at all secondary school levels and MBO and show theoretical understanding and practical and critical skills needed to teach and evaluate their own literature classes. 

SC: Together with peers, students can design a lesson plan for a literature lesson and support 

         their choices with theory from the course.

SC: Students can present their lesson plan in an individual academic paper at C2 level

SC: Students can carry out the lesson plan in their classroom

SC: Students can evaluate and reflect on the the lesson plan in an academic paper at C2 level.

Reminder: Aim for Block 1

At the end of block 1, each student can write a 1500-word paper which describes a literature lesson plan based on a civic/personal aim and a language aim that suits the learners' needs and is supported by relevant theory.

SC: You can analyse your students' needs for your choice of literary assignment

SC: You can define a civic/personal aim for a literature lesson

SC: You can define a language aim for a literature lesson

SC: You can design a lesson plan for a literature lesson

SC: You can justify design choices made on the basis of at least three relevant sources for the 

        teaching of literature, including Van der Knaap (2019) and sources in the MG in a group of 3.

SC: You can apply the conventions and language for an academic paper

Aim for this session: At the end of the lesson, students can describe 2 suitable pre, during & post activities for a chosen literary text with a personal OR a civic aim.

SC: Students can explain the difference between civic and 

        language aims.

SC: Students can formulate a personal or civic aim for a lit text

SC: Students can define 3 pre, during and post (p-d-p)activities 

        for a lit text

SC: Students can match p-d-p activities with different types of 

        text

Recap

• What is the difference between Witte’s reading levels and CEFR reading levels?
  
• Why do you have to know about these levels? What do you have to do with these levels regarding your first assignment?
  
• What should your language aim focus on for this lesson? 
• What are the differences between a personal and a civic aim?
  
• Has everyone been able to carry out the mini-research at school and do research regarding learners’ reading levels?
• Did you all form pairs/groups for the lesson plan?

Your learners’ reading levels – second step in needs analysis

• Collect both language and literary reading levels of your students and use this to analyse the needs of your learners.
  
• Based on the analysis of your learners’ needs (see module guide) you choose a text, design principles and activities for your literature lesson.
  

Difference personal and civic aim

Personal level: To enlarge the knowledge of world and self, 

                                BILDUNG/self-awareness

Civic level (intercultural): Form sensitive and empathic global 

                                                     citizens (other-awareness) 

Formulating personal and civic aims

Tip: aim to

• make a connection between the development of a character in the text and a student’s own growth
• make a connection between the themes in the text and societal issues

Aims and SC are SMART! – At the end of the lessons you can …

What is the structure of a literature lesson?

The structure of a literature lesson

P = Pre reading activities

D = During reading activities

P = Post reading activities

Example pre-task

Example 2 pre-task

What could another pre-task be?

Example 3 pre-task

Which during task was your favourite? Why?

What would you say is the most important part of the post task?

I have achieved today's aim: At the end of the lesson, students can describe 2 suitable pre, during & post activities for a chosen literary text with a personal OR a civic aim.

yes

not yet

Exit ticket: What do you need more information about?