ED1EN4-Realization of Text
Module Provider: Institute of Education
Number of credits: 20 [10ECTS credits]
Terms in which taught: Autumn and Spring
Module Convenor: Mr
DN
Jones
Pre-requisites:
Co-requisites:
Modules excluded:
Module version for: 2008/9
Aims:
Assessable learning outcomes:
By the end of this unit you will be expected:
conventions of dramatic verse, poetry and folk and fairy tale narratives
Additional outcomes:
This is one of those points on the course where you will be practising some of the skills needed in your eventual role as a teacher. While the material used may not always be suitable for presentation to children, the techniques developed on this unit are important to one of your tasks as a teacher: presenting literature and encouraging response to it.
Outline content:
This unit aims to demonstrate the interrelationship between the reading/interpretation of a text and its realization in performance, i.e. a successful performance is a 'reading' which depends not simply on technical skills but also on the quality of the analysis and interpretation that informs it. The specific objectives of the unit are:
dynamic and meaningful way.
In the Group Projects, you will be expected to incorporate story, poetry, dramatic material etc. and to utilise the skills you have acquired on the unit. Your project can be directed towards a primary age-range (infant or junior) or an adult audience; all that is necessary is that you should be clear about the age range of your intended audience and that the material and approach you adopt is tailored to that audience. In assessing the Group Project, consideration will be given both to the selection and the presentation of material (e.g. level of performance skills, attention to visual aspects of the presentation etc.).You will be asked to organise yourselves into groups of 4 or 5 students.
Brief description of teaching and learning methods:
The work in this unit will be organised around a series of workshop activities in which you will explore different forms of poetry, dramatic verse and narrative. While most sessions will concentrate on the analysis, interpretation and performance of poetic and dramatic material, there will also be the opportunities for you to practise the skills of reading aloud and storytelling - in the latter case both with your peers and with primary schoolchildren, as well as working with children in school on presenting, and responding to, poetry. There will be a combination of workshop activities, seminars, independent research by groups for the Group Project (with some tutorial monitoring) and occasional lectures.
Contact hours:
| Autumn | Spring | Summer | |
| Lectures | |||
| Tutorials/seminars | 15 | 30 | |
| Practicals | |||
| Other contact (eg study visits) | |||
| Total hours | 15 | 30 | |
| Number of essays or assignments | 1 | 1 | |
| Other (eg major seminar paper) |
Assessment:
Coursework
3 written analyses (one Shakespearean scene, two poems) 45%
Group presentation 55%
Relative percentage of coursework : 100%
Examinations None.
Requirements for a pass 40%
Reassessment arrangements
An alternative coursework assignment set by a date decided by the Examinations Board