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Joost van den Vondel, Lucifer: Teaching idea
The poet and playwright Joost van den Vondel (1587-1679) is one of the most important authors from the Dutch language area. His tragedy Lucifer from 1654 tells the exciting history of the fall of Adam and Eve in the Earthly Paradise. As a …
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Hugo Claus (1928-2008), The Sorrow of Flanders: Leiside
Hugo Claus (1928-2008) is the most awarded author from the Dutch language area. His best-known work is the novel The Sorrow of Belgium from 1983. The book is at the same time a political novel and an autobiographical development novel. The Sorrow …
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Multatuli, Saïdjah and Adinda: Teaching idea
In the seventeenth chapter of Max Havelaar , the absolute highlight of our historical literature, Multatuli tells the moving love story of a Javanese girl and a Javanese boy, the children of two poor farmers. But their love and their lives, and those …
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Harry Mulisch, The attack: Teaching idea
The attack is the best-known novel by the Dutch writer Harry Mulisch, which was published in 1982. The book belongs to the canon of post-war Dutch literature.
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Reading, Interpreting, and Judging Poetry: Teaching Idea
This learning tool aims to increase the poetry sensitivity and judgment of young readers to enable them to better understand, evaluate and integrate poems into their own world. It includes:
- principles for effective poetry education,
- the theories of …
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Maurice Gilliams, Elias or the fight with the nightingales: Teaching idea
This lesson bundle examines the work of poet and novelist Maurice Gilliams (1900-1982). He made his debut with poetry collections printed by himself. His novel Elias or the Fight with the Nightingales (1936) is the story about a twelve-year-old boy …
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Anton van Wilderode: Lesson idea
In this learning tool, the students become acquainted with the theme and stylistic characteristics of Anton van Wilderode's poetry through ten poems. In 2023 it will be twenty-five years ago that Anton van Wilderode (1918-1998) passed away. …
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Collaborator/dialogue: Collaborate and create together
This sheet is a translation of Competency images: On the way with artistic competences to classroom practice and provides an answer to the question: how can you translate the competence image Collaborator/dialogue: working together and making …
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Artist/imagining: Experimenting and creating
This sheet is a translation of Competency Images : On the way with artistic competences to classroom practice and provides an answer to the question: how can you translate the artist/depiction competence image : experimenting and creating to the four …
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Lucebert (1924-1994), Collected poems: Lesson idea
Lucebert, pseudonym of Lubertus Jacobus Swaanswijk (1924-1994), was the Emperor of the Vijftigers or Experimentals, the poets who brought innovation to Dutch poetry after the Second World War.
The so-called Movement of Fifty (1949-1954) attempted to …
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Competence images: On the way with artistic competences
- To what extent can students give and receive feedback after they have been at art school for four years?
- How do creation processes look different at the end of an academy course?
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J.C. Bloem, Collected poems: Lesson idea
JC Bloem (1887-1966) is the poet of desire. He has expressed the failure of every life and the transience of everything in simple and timeless poems. His work can be called classic in every respect. The way he expressed these eternal themes, they …
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