S290 - Rites of Passage in My Mother Said I Never Should by Charlotte Keatley (set reading for IGCSE 2010/2011)
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Florencia Perduca
Florencia Perduca, Graduate Teacher of English and Literary Translator from I. E. S en Lenguas Vivas "J. R. Fernández", MA in Literary Linguistics (University of Nottingham), is an ESSARP course coordinator specialised in Literatures in Englishes and Postcolonial Theory. Teaches Literature in English at I.E.S. en Lenguas Vivas "Juan Ramón Fernandez", Cultural Studies at ENS en Lenguas Vivas "Sofía E. Broquen de Spangenberg", Postcolonial Literature at Licenciatura en Lengua Inglesa, Universidad Nacional del Litoral and Latin American Studies at UCA. Teaches IGCSE and AS Language and Literature courses at different schools.
IGCSE, literature and language teachers.
- Promote a context-based approach to the plays, drawing also from cultural studies and various literary theories.
- Look for and build strategies to raise teachers and students' awareness of specific worlds of meaning ensuring that interpretation emerges from the text.
Contents: My Mother Said I Never Should by Charlotte Keatley.
- Dramatic elements in the play. - Motifs as a point of entry into the play. - Generational gaps: life seen through the perspective of children and adults. - Coming of age and the moment of epiphany.
- Boehmer, E. (1995) Colonial and Post-Colonial Literature, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Graddol, D. (1997) The Future of English?, London: The British Council. - Jenkins, J. (2003) World Englishes, London and New York: Routledge. - Keatley, C. (1999) My Mother Said I Never Should, London: Routledge. - Walder. D. (1998) Postmodernisms: History, Language, Theory. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
- Presentation and discussion of theoretical frameworks.
- Guided group reflection and exchange of ideas on how to approach a culture-specific play.
- Reading of key extracts in the play and reflection on main themes, cultural symbols and gaps.
- Proposal for creative activities and writing tasks for IGCSE classes.
- Generation of further possible activities by the group in the light of the model proposed in the workshop.
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