COD 2018 - S609

Let's talk about all of it: gender, violence, friendship, treason and love in Shakespeare's Othello

Literature teachers, literature lovers and A level teachers

1 sesiones, inicia: 23-May

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Ciclo: 2018
Nivel: Secundaria
Idioma: Inglés
Estado: Terminado
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Capacitador/es: Ms. Flavia Daniela Pittella
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1 23 Mayo 2018 05:30 pm 08:30 pm

Capacitador/es

Flavia Daniela Pittella

Ms. Flavia Pittella graduated from the University of La Plata as a Teacher of English Language and Literature. She is also Lic. in Ciencias Sociales, FLACSO, with special mention in Reading, Writing and Education. She has participated in international academic conferences and has published articles in different magazines. She holds several Postgraduate courses in literature and language teaching. For the past 20 years, she has taught ESL classrooms and ESL examinations for the IGCSE/AS Language and Literature. She has been a Reading group facilitator for over nine years. She is a cultural journalist at Radio Mitre and several other media. She has published "40 libros que adoro y no podes dejar de leer". Planeta, 2014. She writes regularly for Infobae Cultura. She is the director of “El tercer lugar: espacio cultural”.
Literature teachers, literature lovers and A level teachers
It is the aim of this course to give a perspective from which to analyse and therefore help students undertand the complexity and contemporariness of the issues presented in Shakespeare's Othello
• Brief review of the A level learning objectives; in particular the ability to discuss the critical context of texts.
• How to introduce students to the reading of Othello: opening activities, film versions, songs and graphic novels as a way into the reading of the original text.
• Othello from a gender perspective. How to tackle issues related to "ni una menos" in the reading of the play
• The human condition in Othello: treason, jealousy, friendship, love.
workshop: reading together, analysing, discussing and trying to map out possible readings in the classroom.
• Altman, Joel. The Improbability of Othello: Rhetorical Anthropology and Shakespearean Selfhood. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2010.
• Bloom, Harold. SHAKESPEARE, The Invention of the Human. New York: Riverhead Books, 1999 Shakespeare´s Othello
Film and theatre versions to illustrate some scenes and their different performances.
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