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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
A-level Study Boost: Unseen Poetry and the Creative Process
This online course included an overview of effective techniques to analyse close text and how to use these in the creative writing process. At the end of the course, learners applied what they had learnt to create a poem which is then shared for a peer review.
2 weeks, 3 hours per week
Rebecca Bullard
Associate Professor of English Literature
University of Reading
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Explore the ways in which poets choose and structure words to create meaning
- Apply techniques for analysing poetry by focusing on feelings, patterns, and puzzles
- Experiment with methods for writing and shaping your own poetry, guided by expert educators and mentors
- Evaluate your own and others’ poetry by sharing with fellow Learners
Syllabus
Week 1 – Unseen Poetry
- Ways to read and analyse poetry
- Introduction to the poem, Patagonia
- Feelings: Exploring different feelings towards text
- Patterns: Breaking the text down
- Puzzles: Tone and figurative language
Week 2 – The Creative Process
- Analysing and understanding the creative process
- Ways to start writing a poem
- Shaping a poem
- Create and share your own poem
Issued on 2nd May 2020
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