HVG3-EN-2122-Theme 3 // Introduction

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• Middelbare school
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• Leerjaar 3

English Theme 2

Speaking & Poetry

English HVG3 - Theme 2

Speaking & Poetry

Poetry?!

This theme's goals

You are going to learn 

about poetry and practice 

speaking by giving a 

presentation about a poem. 

HOW? 

Your presentation...

- You will work in pairs
- You will choose a poem from the syllabus and design a poetry video (visual poem)
- Your visual poem will play an important part in your presentation (your teacher can show you examples)

The weekly exercises are meant to help you through this process

So the plan is...

Every week is clearly described in your study guide.

Your weekly exercises, instruction, and all the poems you can choose from are in the syllabus.

The language help is a document with useful presentation sentences. 

Learning about poetry & preparing your work > week 10 - 16 

Every week you will work on some exercises from your syllabus .

Hand-in your visual poem via Teams opdrachten, April 21, 17:00 

Presentations > week 19 - 23 

Testweek 3: Reading test

Rubric

Use the rubric as a checklist

Where?

Use the syllabus from your study guide

Rubric

- individual + group points

- page 4, syllabus

- use as a checklist

de puntenverdeling klop niet meer, maar het gaat erom dat leerlingen zien dat ze zowel als team als individu beoordeeld worden.

Let's get to it!

Watch & listen 

                                          Write down words that are about warmth

Warmth

Cold

A baked potato of a winter’s night to wrap your hands around or burn your mouth. A blanket knitted by your mother’s cunning fingers. Or your grandmother’s.

A smile, a touch, trust, as you walk in from the snow

or return to it, the tips of your ears pricked pink and frozen.

The tink tink tink of iron radiators waking in an old house.

To surface from dreams in a bed, burrowed beneath blankets and comforters, the change of state from cold to warm is all that matters, and you think just one more minute snuggled here before you face the chill. Just one.

Places we slept as children: they warm us in the memory.

We travel to an inside from the outside. To the orange flames of the fireplace or the wood burning in the stove. Breath-ice on the inside of windows, to be scratched off with a fingernail, melted with a whole hand.

Frost on the ground that stays in the shadows, waiting for us.

Wear a scarf. Wear a coat. Wear a sweater. Wear socks. Wear thick gloves. 

 An infant as she sleeps between us. A tumble of dogs, 

a kindle of cats and kittens. Come inside. You’re safe now.

A kettle boiling at the stove. Your family or friends are there. They smile.  Cocoa or chocolate, tea or coffee, soup or toddy, what you know you need. A heat exchange, they give it to you, you take the mug 

and start to thaw. 

While outside, for some of us, the journey began
as we walked away from our grandparents’ houses away from the places we knew as children: changes of state and state and state, to stumble across a stony desert, or to brave the deep waters, while food and friends, home, a bed, even a blanket become just memories. 

Sometimes it only takes a stranger, in a dark place, to hold out a badly-knitted scarf, to offer a kind word, to say we have the right to be here, to make us warm in the coldest season.

You have the right to be here.

Important ideas

Homework: Assignment 1

- Make pairs

- Choosing a poem

- Sign up for presentations

- Assignment 1 - page 5 - syllabus

Don't forget to study your vocabulary ;)