Acquisition,Development and improvement of

reading and writing skills to be used in literature.

Target learners

This virtual learning object is aimed to English Literature Students (with

an advanced level in the English language) who are willing to develop

and improve their comprehension and production skills: Reading and

Writing.

Introduction

By means of following some basic steps, which lead to a full understanding of a text, reading will be an easier process through which the student will get in contact with the English

literature which is one of the main goals of this course.

beginning with short stories, until getting to full novels or famous writing pieces.

This steps would be a single path to ease the understanding of a text,

Moreover, writing skills will be developed by means of having the students write short stories and poems based on what they have learnt in the reading process.

Welcome Message

With a short welcome message the user will be encouraged to access the content of the site.

Are you willing to get in contact with English authors

and get to know their astonishing world?

General Objective

To acquire, develop and improve reading and writing skills through small texts of English Literature such as poems and short stories.

Reading Objectives

• To learn the vocabulary that is commonly used in literature.

• To learn how to understand a complex text by means of analyzing its context.

Writing Objectives

• To use the new vocabulary acquired during the reading session in order to write a short

story.• To learn how to link ideas with specific linking

words which are commonly used in literature.

Why is it important to develop reading and

writing skills?

In order to know the culture that encloses a language, it is very important for the student

to get close to the literature witten in such language. Through novels, short stories and poems the reader will be able to understant the context of the language he is studying.

Pedagogical Model

The students will create and construct new knowledge by means of writing stories, poems, or argumentative texts. Obviously, those constructs they produce will be based on previous knowledge which must have been acquired from reading English and American authors.

Methodology

Reading process:• Every Student will be free to choose an author

of his preference.• The student will work on that specific author

throughout the semester; reading poems, stories, essays or even novels according to his interests.

Methodology

Writing process:• The student will try to imitate the chosen

author writing; he will choose a short text and will produce a similar one based on the structure and the communicative purpose of the author.

• The student will write a free text as a final production.

Resources

• The main resource we will focus on will be English Literature and its most representative authors and writings. This resources could be divided chronologically, by genres or by countries.

Resources

Different Authors and stories. (Sort by chronological order)Renaissance:*Chivalric/ medieval Romance.*Sir Thomas More.*Henry VIII.*William Shakespeare. XVII/XVIII C. Literature.

Resources

Romanticism XVIII to XIX C:• Alexander Pope• Lord Byron• Samuel T. Coleridge• William Wordsworth.

Resources

Victorian Literature XIX C.• Oscar Wilde• Thomas Hardy• Charles Dickens• Edgar Allan Poe• Mark Twain• William Blake

Resources

XX C Literature: Modernism• T.S. Eliot• Scott Fitzgerald • Ernest Hemingway• D.H. Lawrence• Virginia Wool• William Faulkner

Resources

English Literature sort by genre:• Chivalric Romance• Elizabethan Literature• Shakespearean Tragedy• Shakespearean Comedy• Shakespearean Poetry• XIX c. Poetry• XIX c. Novel• XX Existentialism• Realism

Activities

• Getting to know the blog.• Creating a Profile.• Choosing an author.• Biographical Researching.• Reading Texts.• Imitating authors.• Producing texts.