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Write yourself: Poetry assignment
Students create a self through the well-known elf and the selfie in words. An exercise in concise, but feasible writing through the challenge of the form.
No specific initial situation is required.
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Djemana, the eagle saga and poetry collections: Free e-books
Are you looking for yourself?
Welcome to the world of Djemana, the eagle.
This four-part, slightly spiritual fable exposes society and your soul.
The poems help you discover yourself.
They tell who you really are.You can read four books (fable) for …
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Staff rhyme: Lesson idea
A short nice introduction to the staff rhyme through a Saint poem. Through a group discussion and a few specific questions, students explore the phenomenon in poetry and beyond, such as in advertising and comics.
A short writing assignment is also …
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John Milton: Paradise Lost
On this website you will find the complete annotated Dutch translation that Jules Grandgagnage made of John Milton's Paradise Lost (1674 edition in twelve books and approximately 10,000 lines of verse).
Published in 2023, this is the most recent …
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Verses for Valentine: Two love verses
On the occasion of Valentine's Day and on the occasion of two love verses (for a boy and a girl) you can have a conversation about poems. What is the point of poetry? When will it show up? Should it rhyme? What can it be about?
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Short and Small: Thimble Poetry
Short and small (thimble poetry) not only explores the genre of haiku and senryu , but also offers suggestions on how to use them creatively and to write yourself.
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Left Heart: Audio recording of a poem
An own poem (author and reader Joris Denoo) about writing poems.
The content of this poem can spark a conversation about writing (specifically of poems). Pupils often write poems (cf. submissions to poetry competitions), and everyone hopes to write …
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Geert Spillebeen: Author
Website of the author Geert Spillebeen.
You will find information about various books he wrote:
- My father makes weapons
- Age 14
- Abdou's war
- Jimmy Duffy
- Man against the wall
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Source: Age 14: Website about the youth book by Simon Schepers
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Stories from no man's land, WWI in 25 lectures: Author lecture
Fascinating literary readings about stories from the First World War
Stories from no man's land - WWI in 25 lectures aims to inspire schools to approach the Great War from a literary perspective.
The brochure presents 25 authors with their own view on …
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Author readings by literary translators
This brochure presents 18 literary translators who give author lectures on the books of the authors they translate from Japanese, Chinese, Latin, Greek, Italian, French, Spanish, German, English, Polish or Portuguese into Dutch. Translators are …
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Other language - (French) language stories
Romanist and business language trainer Christ'l Verbert collects light language news and French language tips on her blog other language.
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NRC: Book blog
Very complete informative site about books. The site is part of the Dutch newspaper NRC and provides news about literature in the form of blog posts. Here you will find information about new books as well as awards, for youth, adolescent and adult …
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