COD 2018 - S614
“Dwelling on the Boundaries of Home in Stories of Ourselves: (set reading for IGCSE 2017/2018)
IGCSE Literature and Language teachers interested in the "new literatures" and in working with both canonical and non-canonical texts, focused on IGCSE requirements
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sesiones, inicia: 12-Abr
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Ficha del curso
Ciclo: 2018
Nivel: Secundaria
Idioma: Inglés
Estado: Terminado
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Capacitador/es: Ms. Florencia Perduca MA
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Sesiones
| Sesiones | Fechas | Inicia | Termina |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 Abril 2018 | 05:30 pm | 08:30 pm |
| 2 | 26 Abril 2018 | 05:30 pm | 08:30 pm |
| 3 | 10 Mayo 2018 | 05:30 pm | 08:30 pm |
| 4 | 24 Mayo 2018 | 05:30 pm | 08:30 pm |
Capacitador/es
Florencia Perduca
IGCSE Literature and Language teachers interested in the "new literatures" and in working with both canonical and non-canonical texts, focused on IGCSE requirements
- To promote a context-based approach to the reading of texts which lend themselves to exploring Literatures in Englishes.
- To look for and build strategies to raise teachers and students' awareness of specific cultures and their worlds of meaning.
- To scaffold the approach to literary texts according to IGCSE requirements.
- To look for and build strategies to raise teachers and students' awareness of specific cultures and their worlds of meaning.
- To scaffold the approach to literary texts according to IGCSE requirements.
Prescribed short stories from the Anthology Stories of Ourselves:
no. 10 Saki (Hector Hugo Munro), ‘Sredni Vashtar’
no. 17 Sylvia Townsend Warner, ‘The Phoenix’
no. 19 Bernard Malamud, ‘The Prison’
no. 22 J G Ballard, ‘Billenium’
no. 24 Maurice Shadbolt, ‘The People Before’
no. 30 Patricia Highsmith, ‘Ming’s Biggest Prey’
no. 34 Anita Desai, ‘Games at Twilight’
no. 39 Paule Marshall, ‘To Da-duh, in Memoriam’
no. 40 Rohinton Mistry, ‘Of White Hairs and Cricket’
no. 45 Adam Thorpe, ‘Tyres’
Literary-linguistic approach:
- Central themes (the present and the past; displacement; in the short stories and thematic threads (the motif of ‘home’ as resignifiying individual/collective identity) cutting across them.
- Narrative structure of the short stories.
- Symbols and motifs.
- Cultural gaps.
no. 10 Saki (Hector Hugo Munro), ‘Sredni Vashtar’
no. 17 Sylvia Townsend Warner, ‘The Phoenix’
no. 19 Bernard Malamud, ‘The Prison’
no. 22 J G Ballard, ‘Billenium’
no. 24 Maurice Shadbolt, ‘The People Before’
no. 30 Patricia Highsmith, ‘Ming’s Biggest Prey’
no. 34 Anita Desai, ‘Games at Twilight’
no. 39 Paule Marshall, ‘To Da-duh, in Memoriam’
no. 40 Rohinton Mistry, ‘Of White Hairs and Cricket’
no. 45 Adam Thorpe, ‘Tyres’
Literary-linguistic approach:
- Central themes (the present and the past; displacement; in the short stories and thematic threads (the motif of ‘home’ as resignifiying individual/collective identity) cutting across them.
- Narrative structure of the short stories.
- Symbols and motifs.
- Cultural gaps.
1) Presentation and discussion of how to approach “the New Literatures”.
2) Each story’s/writer’s background and culture.
3) Signs of identity in a text written in English.
4) Guided group reflection and exchange of ideas on the main themes and issues raised by the text.
5) Reading of key extracts in the short stories and reflection on how they mean.
2) Each story’s/writer’s background and culture.
3) Signs of identity in a text written in English.
4) Guided group reflection and exchange of ideas on the main themes and issues raised by the text.
5) Reading of key extracts in the short stories and reflection on how they mean.
1) Ashcroft, Griggiths, Tiffin (1989) The Empire Writes Back, London: Routledge.
2) Ashcroft, Griggiths, Tiffin (1995) The Post- Colonial Reader, London: Routledge.
3) Boehmer, E. (1995) Colonial and Post-Colonial Literature, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
4) Graddol, D. (1997) The Future of English? London: The British Council.
5) Jenkins, C. (ed.) (2009) Stories of Ourselves: The University of Cambridge International Examinations Anthology of Short Stories in English, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2) Ashcroft, Griggiths, Tiffin (1995) The Post- Colonial Reader, London: Routledge.
3) Boehmer, E. (1995) Colonial and Post-Colonial Literature, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
4) Graddol, D. (1997) The Future of English? London: The British Council.
5) Jenkins, C. (ed.) (2009) Stories of Ourselves: The University of Cambridge International Examinations Anthology of Short Stories in English, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.