WHY WE SHOULD READ POETRY DRAMA AND CLASSSICS
As teachers, we observe that students are no more interested in poetry,
drama and classics in recent years .They are getting further and further away from
reading these literary works since they are thinking of poetry, drama and classics are
not the part of modern life and modern education. They also don't find them
benefical for their education.The result of the survey we submitted to the students
emerged out the problems why students don't prefer reading these literary works;
many students suffer from studying them in their lessons. They find this method
quite boring. Most students spend most of their time playing computer and video
games. Many others prefer reading the same kind of books such as science-fiction,
fantastic stories and detective stories and most students focus on doing tests for
their exams which carry them better university life and a future career.They are
unaware of the taste of reading a poem, a play or a classic novel.
Seeing all these problems, we started the project idea to create opportunities for
students to understand the value of these literary works for their educational and social lives.We are six countries from
different parts of Europe.; Czechia ,Portugal, Italy, Latvia, Spain and Turkey.We met for the same reason to open new
windows for the students with the activities. Since each partner school has specific competence, we have great
expectation that all partners will host this project with their contribution and literary,cultural and historical background.
We planned various activities such as Poetry Contest,Oratory,Theatre
Play,Musical Play,the World Literature Quiz Show, Liteary Magazine and Poetry
Book.With all these activities we aim to enrich the students' knowledge of
poetry,drama and classics and make them realise the importance of them in
educational and social life.We want to revive these literary works on stage and make
them part of students'lives breaking their prejudice and opening their hearts to these
works.We planned more activities such as visiting charity organisations to perform
plays, read poems and share classic novels with these lonely people. So that students
will learn to emphaty with other people and they can be inspired to write about real
life stories. Role play very important literary figures and national poets on stage with
"Who I'm" activity ,they will also learn to emphaty with the writers and the characters
living and feeling on stage.To write for the Essay Competition and to speak and
defend the idea in Debating Activitiy,they will need to research from different
sources,they will read different books and learn different opinions.So they will develop critical thinking and form their
own idea being respectful to the other opinions. We also forsee "Families Are Reading Classic Novels"activity to
enhance students reading poetry, drama and classic realising the importance of these works in lifelong learning.
To make these literary works part of modern education, we will appeal to the ICT integrating it into our
activities. Students tend to be addict to computer and video games, they use technology pursuing no aim.With this
project they will learn to use technology for knowledge engaging with the ICT activities; preparing facebook page,
project website, weebly page ,slights, videos, digital diary of the activities.Furtermore they will live the enjoyable side of
poetry activities using coding method.
Reviving very important literary works of past , teaching us literature,history,cultural values of different
nations, in multicultural area will create big opportunity to compare past and today to think about the future. They will
manage this sharing knowledge, learning traditions, social values and today's life style through project activities. While
creating these opportunities, one of our aim is to teach students to be more understanding of others,respectful to the
values and accept them without prejudice. They will also have a chance to observe attitudes of European schools
towards these literary works and how they benefit from them to increase the quality of their education and prepare the
students for their future life.
We believe that students will broaden their minds analyzing the different points of view through poetry,drama
and classics activities with schools from different countries in different settings. This will be a unique opportunity for
them not only to develop social, global competences but also they will start to think critically to form their own ideas.
All these improvements will carry them to an intellectual area where they can be open to innovation and progress during
throughout lives in a life-long learning perspective.
When participating in LTT activities, the students will realise the importance of improving language skills, which
they will need during their educational lives and for future work careers.
Esen KUVVET
Coordinator of the Project
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