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← All courses Course plan · Enrolment not openImagination and cultural reading · Tutor-led cohortBuild a thoughtful poetry reading practice across cultures
With Shane Rounce
I want to build build a thoughtful poetry reading practice across cultures around original exercises, practical feedback and a finished project. This plan bundles related themes into one clear learning route; the actual lessons, reading permissions and teaching arrangements still need producing and confirming.
4 weeks16 learning hoursTutor-led cohort
I’m developing this course as part of Learn Courses. This is the full teaching plan, ready to review before I produce the lessons and open enrolment.
IS THIS FOR YOU?Who I’m building this for
Readers widening their poetry references.
Before you begin
- A notebook or accessible writing tool and a way to read the supplied text-first material.
- No formal writing qualification is required. Bring existing drafts if useful, or start with the original prompts supplied for the course.
- Use my own work, public-domain material or expressly permitted sources. Sharing personal experiences is optional.
PROPOSED COURSE FEE£195
Provisional planning figure, not an approved price, booking invitation or promise of availability. The estimate assumes a small group and subject-specialist feedback. Tutor appointment, cohort size and actual support capacity need confirming. Tax treatment and any concession scheme need review before launch.
Planning price only. Enrolment is closed and no payment is taken.
Explore a sample learning space →The sample is fictional. It is separate from this course’s future lessons.
A PRACTICAL NEXT STEPWhat you’ll be able to do
- Choose diverse permitted texts with edition, translator and historical notes.
- Support observations about form and voice without treating one writer as a whole culture.
- Write open questions and compare different readings with textual evidence.
- Produce an original piece with a note on influence, limits and further reading.
THE TEACHING PLANYour next 4 weeks
A clear route through the subject, with something to make, test or reflect on at every stage.
01MODULE 1Build a contextual reading list
I want this session to develop build a contextual reading list through a short original demonstration, a guided experiment and a revised piece. I separate an observable craft decision from a matter of taste and leave room for different voices.
- Your practical activity
- Choose diverse permitted texts with edition, translator and historical notes.
- How I’ll check your understanding
- Submit the exercise and a short craft note: choose diverse permitted texts with edition, translator and historical notes. Show one deliberate choice, an alternative I tried and what I changed after review. Feedback addresses the work rather than judging the writer’s life or requiring agreement with a particular viewpoint.
02MODULE 2Read one work closely
I want this session to develop read one work closely through a short original demonstration, a guided experiment and a revised piece. I separate an observable craft decision from a matter of taste and leave room for different voices.
- Your practical activity
- Support observations about form and voice without treating one writer as a whole culture.
- How I’ll check your understanding
- Submit the exercise and a short craft note: support observations about form and voice without treating one writer as a whole culture. Show one deliberate choice, an alternative I tried and what I changed after review. Feedback addresses the work rather than judging the writer’s life or requiring agreement with a particular viewpoint.
03MODULE 3Hold a useful discussion
I want this session to develop hold a useful discussion through a short original demonstration, a guided experiment and a revised piece. I separate an observable craft decision from a matter of taste and leave room for different voices.
- Your practical activity
- Write open questions and compare different readings with textual evidence.
- How I’ll check your understanding
- Submit the exercise and a short craft note: write open questions and compare different readings with textual evidence. Show one deliberate choice, an alternative I tried and what I changed after review. Feedback addresses the work rather than judging the writer’s life or requiring agreement with a particular viewpoint.
04MODULE 4Write a responsible response
I want this session to develop write a responsible response through a short original demonstration, a guided experiment and a revised piece. I separate an observable craft decision from a matter of taste and leave room for different voices.
- Your practical activity
- Produce an original piece with a note on influence, limits and further reading.
- How I’ll check your understanding
- Submit the exercise and a short craft note: produce an original piece with a note on influence, limits and further reading. Show one deliberate choice, an alternative I tried and what I changed after review. Feedback addresses the work rather than judging the writer’s life or requiring agreement with a particular viewpoint.
PUT IT INTO PRACTICEYour final project
Prepare a short original portfolio that joins the four module experiments into a coherent result. Include draft and revision evidence, a source-and-influence note and a short reflection explaining the craft decisions. A fictional or indirect route is always acceptable; personal disclosure and public publication are optional.
What you’ll produce
- Build a contextual reading list: the original exercise, a revised version where relevant and a short account of the chosen approach.
- Read one work closely: the original exercise, a revised version where relevant and a short account of the chosen approach.
- Hold a useful discussion: the original exercise, a revised version where relevant and a short account of the chosen approach.
- Write a responsible response: the original exercise, a revised version where relevant and a short account of the chosen approach.
- A concise project statement, source-and-rights record and revision or testing log.
- A clear statement of what I am willing to share and what must remain private.
What good work looks like
- Intent and craft: 30 marks for purposeful choices that the submitted work demonstrates.
- Development: 25 marks for meaningful experiments, revision and an explained response to feedback.
- Coherence and usability: 25 marks for an integrated portfolio or practical pack suited to its intended audience.
- Reflection and sources: 20 marks for clear process notes, honest attribution and appropriate privacy boundaries. Completion requires at least 70/100, all exercises and correction of any unresolved source-rights or privacy issue. Literary taste, personal disclosure, publication acceptance and sales are not marking criteria.
Resources for your learning
- An original demonstration and an exercise sheet for build a contextual reading list.
- An original demonstration and an exercise sheet for read one work closely.
- An original demonstration and an exercise sheet for hold a useful discussion.
- An original demonstration and an exercise sheet for write a responsible response.
- A rights-cleared reading or reference packet with accessible formats and brief source notes.
- A portfolio or campaign workbook, revision log, peer-feedback guide and completed capstone reference.
- An assessment rubric and an equivalent-access evidence template.
A course you can access
- Provide text-first lessons, edited transcripts and captions for every recording.
- Support screen readers, keyboard navigation, readable formatting and low-bandwidth downloads.
- Offer equivalent written or recorded evidence; live attendance and rapid spoken responses are not required by default.
- Allow an invented or indirect writing route and private tutor submission where a subject feels personal. Provide content notes and a clear support boundary before enrolment.
How you’ll complete the course
- Complete the four original exercises and a revision or testing record.
- Submit the capstone with a source-and-influence statement and meet the published 70/100 rubric.
- Respond to feedback or explain a reasoned decision to retain the original choice.
- No public performance, personal disclosure, external publication or commercial sale is required. Completion is internal recognition of assessed work, not external accreditation.
Completion will describe the work you have done. No external accreditation or professional qualification is claimed.
BEFORE I OPEN ENROLMENTWhat I still need to finish
I’ll turn this plan into a delivered course once the teaching material and the learning service are ready.
- Write and review the original lessons, exercise sheets, assessment guidance and reference submissions for this exact plan.
- Confirm who is qualified and available to teach or review the subject. Shane is the proposed course owner; this plan does not claim another poet has agreed to teach or that Shane holds a specialist qualification.
- Select an original, public-domain or licensed reading packet and complete the source-and-rights ledger before uploading any text, image or recording.
- Pilot the complete course with access testing, realistic study time, feedback turnaround and an alternative route for each required activity.
- Approve the fee, tax treatment, refund terms, access period, moderation and support boundaries before accepting bookings.
- Test server-side paid access, private submissions, tenant isolation, asset permissions and payment reconciliation before enrolment.
- Publish truthful course status and tutor details only after agreement; do not present Poetry School’s tutors, course brands, student work or private teaching materials as mine.
- Commission appropriate language or cultural review for the chosen texts and clearly distinguish personal response from translation or cultural authority.
FURTHER READINGThe ideas behind the course
My published articles are background reading for this plan. The full lessons, activities and assessment material still need producing.
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