{"id":1449,"date":"2024-03-25T15:48:33","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whs-blogs.co.uk\/linguistica\/?p=1449"},"modified":"2024-11-12T20:04:19","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T20:04:19","slug":"wimbledon-week-of-women-and-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whs-blogs.co.uk\/linguistica\/2024\/03\/25\/wimbledon-week-of-women-and-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon Week of Women and Words"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cPoetry is an exquisite expression of exquisite impressions\u201d <\/p>\n<cite>Philibert Joseph Roux<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Reading, analysing, discussing and performing poetry helps us to appreciate the beauty of the language as well as the cultural and historical context in which it is written.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To read a poem aloud requires an understanding of the intended meaning of the poet, it requires a sensitivity to the rhythm of each line, it requires careful and precise intonation and pronunciation, it requires confidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the following pages you will find the poems studied by Y7, 8 and 9 students in their language lessons during Wimbledon Week of Women and Words. I am delighted to present their skilled and thoughtful readings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"525\" height=\"519\" data-id=\"1450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.whs-blogs.co.uk\/linguistica\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/WWoWW2-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.whs-blogs.co.uk\/linguistica\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/WWoWW2-1.png 525w, https:\/\/www.whs-blogs.co.uk\/linguistica\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/WWoWW2-1-300x297.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPoetry is an exquisite expression of exquisite impressions\u201d Philibert Joseph Roux Reading, analysing, discussing and performing poetry helps us to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","category-the-arts","comments-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whs-blogs.co.uk\/linguistica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whs-blogs.co.uk\/linguistica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whs-blogs.co.uk\/linguistica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whs-blogs.co.uk\/linguistica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whs-blogs.co.uk\/linguistica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1449"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.whs-blogs.co.uk\/linguistica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1491,"href":"https:\/\/www.whs-blogs.co.uk\/linguistica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions\/1491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whs-blogs.co.uk\/linguistica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whs-blogs.co.uk\/linguistica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whs-blogs.co.uk\/linguistica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}