Do you love English? In this Ongoing Class, learners will explore a range of Writing genres in a fun and interactive way. This course aims to provide meaningful learning experiences for young writers.

Each class will include a range of teaching methods and activities that are designed to engage the learners in both a hands-on and minds-on way. Classes will include discussions, Q&A, quizzes, games, worksheets, songs, videos and much more.  Learners will be encouraged to write, revise and share what they write. A variety of methods are used to support learners and cater for different learning styles and needs. 

Week beginning 6/5/24 - What is Poetry Analysis? - "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost
Week beginning 13/5/24 - Themes in Poetry - "Ode to a Nightingale" by John Keats, "Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou
Week beginning 20/5/24 - Imagery and Sensory Language - "Daffodils" by William Wordsworth, "The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams
Week beginning 27/5/24 - Symbolism - "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe, "The Waste Land" by T.S. Eliot
Week beginning 3/6/24 - Poetic Language - "My Papa's Waltz" by Theodore Roethke, "I, Too" by Langston Hughes
Week beginning 10/6/24 - Meter and Rhythm - "The Tyger" by William Blake, "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" by Dylan Thomas
Week beginning 17/6/24 - Rhyme and Sound Devices - "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost, "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll
Week beginning 24/6/24 - Narrative Poetry - "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot, "The Highwayman" by Alfred Noyes
Week beginning 1/7/24 - Form and Structure - "Sonnet 18" by William Shakespeare, "The Wasteland" by T.S. Eliot
Week beginning 8/7/24 - Ekphrastic Poetry - "Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Keats, "The Starry Night" by Anne Sexton
Week beginning 15/7/24 - Nature Poetry - "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" by William Wordsworth, "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" by Walt Whitman
Week beginning 22/7/24 - Love Poetry - "How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, "Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allan Poe
Week beginning 29/7/24 - War Poetry - "Dulce et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen, "The Soldier" by Rupert Brooke
Week beginning 5/8/24 - Identity Poetry - "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" by Langston Hughes, "Identity" by Julio Noboa Polanco
Week beginning 12/8/24 - Social and Political Poetry - "The Second Coming" by W.B. Yeats, "I, Too" by Langston Hughes
Week beginning 19/8/24 - Surrealist Poetry - "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot, "The Waste Land" by T.S. Eliot
Week beginning 26/8/24 - Confessional Poetry - "Daddy" by Sylvia Plath, "Ariel" by Sylvia Plath
Week beginning 2/9/24 - Feminist Poetry - "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "Hunger Moon" by Jane Cooper
Week beginning 9/9/24 - Postcolonial Poetry - "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" by Langston Hughes, "A Far Cry from Africa" by Derek Walcott
Week beginning 16/9/24 - Contemporary Poetry - Selections from contemporary poets such as Warsan Shire, Ocean Vuong, and Tracy K. Smith