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Dutch poetry lessons online for Poetry Week 2016
September 16, 2015
The classes for high school students are available in both a ‘light’ and an ‘intensive’ version. The light version contains poems by Alfred Schaffer, Anneke Brassinga, Bert Schierbeek, Gerrit Komrij, Ingrid Jonker, Leendert Witvliet, Luuk Gruwez, Marc Tritsmans, Nannie Kuiper and Willem Wilmink. The intensive version uses poems by Antjie Krog, Ben Cami, Charlotte Van den Broeck, Ellen Deckwitz, Hans Faverey, Maria Barnas, Menno Wigman, Peter Verhelst and Rutger Kopland.
Please note that the lessons are in Dutch. For more information, visit the Poetry Week website.
From 28 January until 3 February 2016, the fourth Poetry Week will take place in The Netherlands and Belgium. This is an initiative from Poetry International and several of its Dutch and Flemish partners, such as the Poëziecentrum and CPNB. Stichting Lezen and Stichting Lezen Vlaanderen have written new poetry lessons geared toward both primary school students and high school students, using poems that focus on the week’s theme ‘Memory’. The poetry lessons pertaining to the Poetry Week 2016 can be found at Poëzieweek.com. Teachers who would like to use these lessons for their classrooms can also access earlier editions of the lessons on that website.
The poetry lessons for primary school students contains ten poems from Ted van Lieshout, Joke van Leeuwen, Jaap Robben, Bette Westera, André Solie, Edward van de Vendel, Karel Eykman, Nannie Kuiper and Bart Moeyaert. Each poem has several accompanying assignments that encourage the students to either analyse the poems or to use them as a starting point for their own creative work.The classes for high school students are available in both a ‘light’ and an ‘intensive’ version. The light version contains poems by Alfred Schaffer, Anneke Brassinga, Bert Schierbeek, Gerrit Komrij, Ingrid Jonker, Leendert Witvliet, Luuk Gruwez, Marc Tritsmans, Nannie Kuiper and Willem Wilmink. The intensive version uses poems by Antjie Krog, Ben Cami, Charlotte Van den Broeck, Ellen Deckwitz, Hans Faverey, Maria Barnas, Menno Wigman, Peter Verhelst and Rutger Kopland.
Please note that the lessons are in Dutch. For more information, visit the Poetry Week website.
Translator: Regina Szwed dos Santos
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