WebQuest “Seven days of English poetry”

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. Task

3. Process

• Day 1 answer the questions
• Day 2 Poets' Corner
• Day 3 William Shakespeare
• Day 4 Shakespeare: Original pronunciation
• Day 5 RobertBurns
• Day 6 The Romantic Movement in English literature
• Day 7 Christina Rossetti , Rudyard Kipling

4. Evaluation

5. Conclusion

Пояснение к работе

«Web-Quest – это формат урока с ориентацией на развитие познавательной, исследовательской деятельности учащихся, на котором основная часть информации добывается через ресурсы Интернет. Различают два типа веб-квестов: для кратковременной (цель: углубление знаний и их интеграция, рассчитаны на одно-три занятия) и длительной работы (цель: углубление и преобразование знаний учащихся, рассчитаны на длительный срок – может быть, на семестр или учебный год). Особенностью образовательных веб-квестов является то, что часть или вся информация для самостоятельной или групповой работы учащихся с ним находится на различных веб-сайтах».
Данный веб-квест разработан для учащихся 8-11 классов школ с углубленным изучением английского языка или для мотивированных учащихся. Веб-квест рассчитан на длительную работу по теме «Английская поэзия» и содержит 7 модулей (7 дней работы).

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Цели и задачи:

• Обучающие: обучить учащихся получению нужной информации через Интернет-источники, познакомить учащихся с примерами Английской поэзии.
• Развивающие: развить навыки самостоятельной работы; развить мышление, память, внимание, логику высказывания; развить умение давать оценку прочитанному. Развить умение употреблять универсальные учебные действия; реализация креативного потенциала; формирование новых компетенций;
• Воспитательные: привить интерес к изучению английского языка как к источнику получения интересной информации и новых знаний, повышение личностной самооценки; повышение мотивации к самообучени

1. Introduction http://zunal.com/introduction.php?w=175242

Welcome: Seven days of English poetry
Description: Reading national poetry is the easiest way to understand the feelings and thoughts of the poet, and therefore hopes and feelings of an entire nation. Here you will be able to know much more about English poetry and poets. Enjoy your work here!
Grade Level: 9-12
Curriculum: Foreign Language
Keywords: English poetry, famous English poets
Poetry is a lot of things to a lot of people. Homer's epic, The Odyssey, described the wanderings of the adventurer,has been calledthe greatest story ever told.During the English Renaissance, dramatic poets like John Milton, Christopher Marlowe, and, of course, Shakespearegave us enough to fill textbooks, lecture halls, and universities. The Poems of the romantic period including Goethe'sFaust (1808), Coleridge’s "Kubla Khan" and John Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn" gave us a lot to understand the life and people’s feelings better.
Poetry isa vital language. Poetry relies on the writer's feelings, history and perceptions. Poetry writing is relevant and interesting, because it draws on the senses and the senses give deep access to memories and feelings.
Poetry comes to us bringing life, and focuses on giving us a better understanding of life.
Poetry is a special part of the literature of any country. Reading national poetry is the easiest way to understand the feelings and thoughts of the poet, and therefore hopes and feelings of an entire nation. It is necessary to read poetry, to see and feel the people of the country of the studied language better.

2. Task http://zunal.com/tasks.php?w=175242

You are going to be closely connected with English poetry for seven days
We hope they will be the most excitingones on your way ofstudyingbeautiful English Literature

3. Process (http://zunal.com/process.php?w=175242)

Seven days of English poetry

Day 1.

Search for some information in Wikipedia, answer the questions and do some tasks in written form:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_poetry
http://www.questia.com/library/literature/poetry/british-poetry

1. Which periods of English( British) poetry could you name?
2. Name the earliest known English poem.
3. Who was the most highly regarded English poet of the Middle Ages, who was seen by his contemporaries as a successor to the great tradition of Virgiland Dante?
4. Who was the most significant English poet of Early Renaissance poetry who was among the first poets to write sonnets in English
5. What are the examples of the influence of classicism on Elizabethan poetry?Name the author
6. Name some poets of the Romantic Movement. (some more informationhttp://www.uh.edu/engines/romanticism/poets.html)
7. Which poem often voted Britain's favourite poem?
8. Which poet after the publication ofThe Waste Land, became a major figure and influence on other English poets?

Well done!

Day 2. Poets' Corner

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poets%27_Corner

Poets' Corneris the name traditionally given toa section of the South Transept of Westminster Abbey because of thegood number of poets, playwrights, and writers buried and commemorated there.The first person to be interred in Poets' Corner was GeoffreyChaucer in 1556. Over the centuries, a tradition has grownup of interring or memorializing people there in recognition of their contribution to British culture. In the overwhelming majority of cases, the honour is awarded to writers.

The task:Name some more poetsassociated withPoets ‘Corner.

We hope you have done it correctly!

Day 3. Let us start to get acquainted with some English poets

William Shakespeare(1564-1616)

For all his fame and celebration, William Shakespeare remains a mysterious figure with regards to personal history. There are just two primary sources for information on the Bard: his works, and various legal and church documents that have survived from Elizabethan times. Naturally, there are many gaps in this body of information, which tells us little about Shakespeare the man.

Some more information:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare
  http://www.stratford-upon-avon.co.uk/soawshst.htm
• http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/life/index.html
• http://www.william-shakespeare.info/william-shakespeare-facts.htm
• http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/
• http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/

Answer the questions:

1. Whereand when was William Shakespeare born?
2. What kind of education did he get?
3. Who was his wife?
4. How many children did they have?
5. What theater is connected with the name of Shakespeare?
6. How many new words did he invent?

The task: Do the tests on-line:

http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/quizzes/shakespeare/shakespeare.htm

http://www.william-shakespeare.info/shakespeare-quiz/0201.htm

Congratulations! You’ve done a lot!

Day 4. Listen to some of Shakespeare's sonnets, and other works

Shakespeare: Original pronunciation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPlpphT7n9s&feature=related

Shakespeare's Sonnets Audio book

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2KeALDmztQ&list=LPUiUSlb0hB9M&index=2&feature=plcp

Shakespeare's words and expressions

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbgZxAIiO04&feature=related

Act 1 – Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UY5HUbvWb0&feature=related

The task:Find sand write down some ofShakespeare's sonnets translated into Russian

Day 5.

Robert Burns (25 January1759 – 21 July 1796)

(also known as Rabbie Burns, Scotland's favourite son, the Ploughman Poet, Robdenof Solway Firth, the Bard of Ayrshire and in Scotland as The Bard) was a Scottish poet and lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and is celebrated worldwide. He is the best known of the poets who have written in the Scots language, although much of his writing is also in English and a light Scots dialect, accessible to an audience beyond Scotland. He also wrote in Standard English, and in these his political or civil commentary is often at its bluntest.He is regarded as a pioneer of the Romantic movement, and after his death he became a great source of inspiration to the founders of both liberalism and socialism, and a cultural icon in Scotland and among the Scottish Diaspora around the world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Burns
http://www.robertburns.org/

Listen and try to read in the same manner A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns – Poetry Reading

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJiJ_lND8kI&feature=fvst
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJGaRb3WCT4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDOyD2Pnp7o&feature=related

Auld Lang Syne (with lyrics)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acxnmaVTlZA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AItlCyEX9nc&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rCZduGdax8&feature=related

Day 6.

The Romantic Movement in English literature

The main poets of this movement wereWilliam Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Byron, and JohnKeats. The birth of  English Romanticism is often dated to the publication in 1798 of Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads.

William Blake(1757-1827)

http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/william_blake/biography
https://sites.google.com/site/kgjeans/home
http://www.blakearchive.org/blake/
http://www.gailgastfield.com/Blake.html

Listen and try to read in the same manner William Blake's "The Tyger" Short Lecture

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMwNvzRKX64&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4rbk8L_UFw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgCVumXD2q8&feature=related

WilliamWordsworth(7 April 1770 - 23 April 1850)

http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/william_wordsworth/poems

Listen and try to read in the same manner Daffodils –William Wordsworth

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EShsSLVhJ8M&feature=fvwrel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWY2mEhkjUI&feature=fvwrel

Lord Byron(22 January 1788 -19 April 1824)

http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/lord_byron/biography
http://englishhistory.net/byron.html
http://englishhistory.net/byron/moorebyron.html

Listen and try to read in the same manner
She Walks in Beauty by Lord Byron

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVVU5wJrEF4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNYlgr4xN0o&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43EAM5flh8o&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhFnNnse10Q&feature=related

Day 7.

Christina Rossetti (5 December 1830 – 29 December 1894)

She was an English poet who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children’s poems. She is perhaps best known for her long poemGoblin Market, her love poemRemember, and for the words of the Christmas carolIn the Bleak Midwinter.Christina Rossetti is widely regarded as the greatest female poet in English up to her own time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Rossetti
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/716

Remember (a poem by Christina Rossetti )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YRh2ebJYvs

An Echo by Christina Rossetti

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR3yS_8k130&feature=related

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

Hewas an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist chiefly remembered for his tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his tales for children. He received the Nobel Prize in Literaturein 1907. He was born in Bombay, in the Bombay Presidency of British India, and was taken byhis family to England when he was five years old. Kipling is best known for his works of fiction, including The Jungle Book(a collection of stories which includes "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi"), Just So Stories (1902)(1894), Kim (1901) (a tale of adventure), and his poems, including «Mandalay" (1890), "Gunga Din" (1890), "The White Man’s Burden" (1899) and "If — " (1910). He is regarded as a major «innovator in the art of the short story".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudyard_Kipling
http://www.kipling.org.uk/kip_fra.htm

Listen and try to read in the same manner "If" by Rudyard Kipling (poetry reading)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK4HDCIr_E8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH5txHlSOUI&feature=related

The task: Learn the most favourite poem by heart and try to recite it do the project work "My favourite English poet" (3-4 slides including some biography, a portrait of your favorite poet and 2-3 poems with illustrations)

4. Evaluation http://zunal.com/evaluation.php?w=175242

Evaluation Rubric

5. Conclusion http://zunal.com/conclusion.php?w=175242

Reflect back on what you have learnt and the way of learning. Try to use given information and get any new information this way.
That's all the time we have for this topic, but if you like you will learn some more information on English poetry and share it with us.