93577 - Workshop on Textual Analysis (H)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the lab, the student: - can apply what was covered in the integrated course within a simulated learning environment; - can reflect critically in groups on the proposed topics.

Course contents

The workshop is a space for learning and experiencing the written language and aims to guide students through a personal practice of writing, experienced in an atmosphere of freedom and expressive awareness.

Writing, a field of action of thought and affect, is configured as an original exercise of language in its various forms and at the same time as a plane of observation of the text in its linguistic and rhetorical aspects. The conquest of a more conscious and profound familiarity with the gestures of writing and reading is inscribed in the perimeter of the work that teachers and masters carry out on the child's language, with punctual references to the link between language and literary education present in the National Indications of the first cycle of education curriculum (MIUR, 2012).

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Readings/Bibliography

C. Bobin, Poetically inhabiting the world, Lecce, AnimaMundi Edizioni, 2019.

E. Cocever, A. Chiantera (eds.), Writing experience in education, Bologna, CLUEB, 1996, pp. 55-88.

B. M. Garavelli, Handbook of Rhetoric, Milan, Bompiani, 2003, pp. 159-166; pp. 198-202; pp.216-219.

Teaching methods

The workshop combines the analysis of theoretical elements concerning the style and rhetoric of the text with experiments in expressive writing, carried out both individually and in small groups. The writing work begins with readings aloud of selected pieces of literature and children's literature. The first part of the work is devoted to automatic writing tests and language games, while the subsequent writing activities concern text types (descriptive, narrative, scenic), rhetorical figures (metaphor, anaphora, enumeration), content (experiences, objects, aspects of nature) and modes of thought activation (recollection, observation, imagination) that aim at strengthening the technical skill of writing and recognizing an original and creative use of language, in which words contribute to the understanding and together to the construction of reality.

Stationery materials (pencils, A3 or A4 sheets of paper, pens, pencil or wax colors, erasers, tape, glue) are required for the conduct of the workshop in order to make a small leporello book that will accommodate the various individual tests of expressive writing.

 

Assessment methods

The mode of verification of learning relies on the design of an activity to be repeated in the classroom similar to the one experienced during the workshop (using new stimuli/texts suitable for learners).

To design the activity:

- Name a preschool/primary school class, specifying its composition.

- Describe the activity you want to replicate, outlining the proposed materials and the steps of the work.

- Identify the objectives of the course by referring to the National Directions, Italian section.

Practical Directions:

The paper should be a maximum of 2 pages, body 12, line spacing 1.5.
Take care of the exposition and reread the text before submission.
Indicate the name of the workshop and your name at the top.
Turn in the paper by the agreed date.

Take note of the grade that the instructor(s) will make public on the Notices page of their website.

The lab is worth 1 credit and the evaluation has four grade levels: +1 (excellent), 0 (good), -1 (sufficient), rejected (you will have to repeat the lab attendance).

The criteria used to evaluate the paper are:
1) consistency between learning objectives, theoretical elements and proposed teaching practice;
2) relevance and correctness of the content and theoretical references supporting the activity;
3) cohesion between the various parts of the project proposed to the children;
4) ability to personally rework the content learned.

Teaching tools

Paper copies and multimedia presentations.

Office hours

See the website of Federica Giampieretti