COD 2018 - PS184

Magic Realism and Fantasy in Anthony Browne’s Picturebooks: What If?, Into the Forest and The Tunnel

Primary & Secondary School teachers

1 sesiones, inicia: 29-May

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Ciclo: 2018
Nivel: Primaria / Secundaria
Idioma: Inglés
Estado: Pospuesto
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Capacitador/es: Ms. María Cecilia Pena Koessler MA
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1 29 Mayo 2018 05:30 pm 08:30 pm

Capacitador/es

María Cecilia Pena Koessler

Graduate Teacher of English at Primary level and at Secondary level from I.E.S en Lenguas Vivas "J. R. Fernández." Postgraduate course in Medieval and Renaissance Literature at I.E.S en Lenguas Vivas "J.R. Fernández." MA in Literary Linguistics (University of Nottingham) and Medieval Studies Master's degree student (UBA). She teaches English Literature I and Children and YA 's Literature at I.S.P. J.V.González and I.E.S. en Lenguas Vivas "J.R. Fernández" Teacher Training Colleges and IGCSE and IB literature at secondary schools. She has participated in research projects on Intercultural Awareness and Border Thery. She has co-authored "Little Stars" pre-primary series and "Our Stories" primary series for Pearson and designed creative writing and literature materials for other series (Pearson and Macmillan).
Primary & Secondary School teachers
- To identify the different parts of a picture book and how each part contributes to the visual and verbal richness of the texts.
- To identify postmodernist features in Browne’s contemporary, fantastic picture books and how they break away from tradition.
- To explore the wide range of creative activities that can be carried out with Browne’s picture books in addition to reading comprehension activities.
What If?: Joe is nervous about his first big party, and as Mum walks him along the darkening street to his friend’s house, his imagination starts to run wildwo ndering "What if...?"(Goodreads)

Into the Forest: One night a boy is woken by a terrible storm. In the morning Dad is gone and Mum doesn't seem to know when he'll be back. The next day Mum asks her son to take a cake to his sick grandma. Don't go into the forest, she warns. Go the long way round! (Goodreads)

The Tunnel: Jack fearlessly explores the tunnel he found while playing, but when he doesn't return, his sister Rose goes in the tunnel to find him.(Goodreads)

NO PREVIOUS READING OF MATERIAL IS REQUIRED
Teachers can choose to either read the picture books beforehand (copies are available at bookstores) or attend the session in order to familiarize themselves with the author via excerpts.
This session will be organized in terms of workshop for participants to enrich their understanding of the texts with contributions from the group. W will discuss the target audiences for the texts, points of entry, textual interventions and intertextual links which can be established with other verbal or visual texts.
- Becket, Sandra (2012). Crossover Picturebooks: A Genre of All Ages. London: Routledge.
- Sipe, Lawrence and Sylvia Pantaleo (ed.) (2008). Postmodern Picturebooks: Play, Parody, and Self-Referentiality. London: Routledge.
- Allan, Cherie (2012). Playing with Picturebooks: Postmodernism and the Posmodernesque. Hampshire: Pallgrave Macmillan.
- Jones, Jonathan (Jun. 10, 2009). “The Surreal brilliance of Anthony Browne’s art.” https://www.theguardian.com/books/jonathanjonesblog/2009/jun/10/anthony-browne-childrens-laureate
- Crowne, Sarah (Jul, 4, 2009). “A Life in Books: Anthony Browne.” https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2009/jul/04/anthony-browne-interview
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