jc english poetry

Edja

hi all

dip student here! Can anyone tell me what is the prescribed poetry for jc english!?

dambarude

Edja wrote: »

hi all

dip student here! Can anyone tell me what is the prescribed poetry for jc english!?

JC English doesn't have prescribed poetry like the LC.

Exam papers give general questions about poems, which can be answered using the poems that particular candidates have studied, as selected by the teacher.

JC textbooks show the standard of the poetry usually chosen.

Look at the curriculum: http://www.education.ie/servlet/blobservlet/jc_english_sy.pdf?language=EN, found on www.education.ie .

peanuthead

Hi Edja

As stated above really.

Once you cover the below topics within your poetry, you should be fine:

Love
Death
War
Nature
Animals
Memories
Tradition
Vocation
Family

A list of poetry that I have used in the past includes

Daffodils - W.Wordsworth (nature)
The Early Purgess - S. Heaney ( memories, animals, nature, death, war - pushing it)
Digging - S. Heaney (memories, love, family, vocation, tradition, love)
Mid-term break - S. Heaney (memories, love, family, death)
But You Didn't - M. Glass (war, love, death, memories, family)

There are more that I can't think of - plus I did only ever teach to Ordinary Level but that should give you an idea.

peanuthead

Also - I'm a Dip student too. PM me if you want to share ideas!!

implausible

There is no prescribed list, though looking at the poems that come up year after year in JC scripts, you'd be forgiven for thinking there is.

Any JC textbook will have a decent selection of poems you can use, but don't feel restricted to just using these. If you have a particular favourite, use it. If there is a song of the poem, use it. If there is a poem that fits it with a theme/play/novel you're covering, use it e.g. I would often cover a Shakespearean sonnet with a HL group to introduce them to Shakespearean language in a play.

Using your own material can often wake up a class and impress an inspector.

Edja

Thanks a million all.

Deemark, starting off first years with an introduction to poetic terminology, sing Jay-Z and Alicia Keyes! Might surprise an inspector, might leave me wishing I hadn't, but sure we'll give it a lash!

implausible

I often use song lyrics to teach simile, metaphor etc. Get them to go home and find their own - lyrics on the net, radio cds etc and then they can make up their own. Avoid Shakira's 'She-wolf' and Lady GaGa (what do you think 'bluffin with my muffin' is a metaphor for???) though, a leeeeetle bit unsuitable:D