COD 2019 - S647

“Dwelling on the Boundaries of Home in Stories of Ourselves: The University of Cambridge International Examinations Anthology of Short Stories in English” (set reading for IGCSE 2019/2020)

IGCSE Literature and Language teachers interested in the "new literatures" and in working with both canonical and non-canonical texts

4 sesiones, inicia: 02-May

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Ciclo: 2019
Nivel: Secundaria
Idioma: Inglés
Estado: Terminado
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Capacitador/es: Ms. Florencia Perduca MA
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Sesiones Fechas Inicia Termina
1 02 Mayo 2019 05:30 pm 08:30 pm
2 16 Mayo 2019 05:30 pm 08:30 pm
3 30 Mayo 2019 05:30 pm 08:30 pm
4 13 Junio 2019 05:30 pm 08:30 pm

Capacitador/es

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, Literary Linguistic Analysis and Postcolonial Theory. She 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. She teaches IGCSE English Language and Literature. She is Head of Senior School at St. Catherine's Moorlands School, Sede Belgrano.
IGCSE Literature and Language teachers interested in the "new literatures" and in working with both canonical and non-canonical texts
- To explore instrumental reading and its formative value.
- To propose a context-based and a literary linguistic approach to the reading of texts.
- To look for and build strategies to raise teachers and students’ awareness of specific cultures, their representation systems and their worlds of meaning.
- To prepare materials that meet IGCSE Literature core objectives.
no. 2 Edgar Allan Poe, ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’
no. 7 Stephen Crane, ‘The Open Boat’
no. 8 Edith Wharton, ‘The Moving Finger’
no. 18 Ray Bradbury, ‘There Will Come Soft Rains’
no. 23 Alex La Guma, ‘The Lemon Orchard’
no. 32 Bernard MacLaverty, ‘Secrets’
no. 33 John McGahern, ‘The Stoat’
no. 36 Patricia Grace, ‘Journey’
no. 37 Janet Frame, ‘The Bath’
no. 48 Tim Winton, ‘On Her Knees’


A literary-linguistic analysis of texts combining genetic, mimetic, intertextual and pragmatic approaches, actively working on:

- Genres.
- Authors and their context of production.
- Central themes (the present and the past; displacement and dislocation; entrapment and isolation; the purposelessness of life; the plight of life/death) and thematic threads (the motif of ‘home’ as resignifiying individual/collective identity) cutting across set stories.
- Narratology.
- Symbols and motifs.
- Diction, imagery and rhetoric.
- Activities which meet IGCSE requirements.
1) Presentation and discussion of how to approach IGCSE set texts.
2) Exploration of each story’s background and their context of production
3) Literary linguistic analyses of set texts
4) Reading of key extracts in the short stories and reflection on how they mean
5) Critical analysis of IGCSE papers (passage for comment, literary essay and the unseen text.
1) ASHCROFT, GRIFFITHS, TIFFIN (1989) The Empire Writes Back, London: Routledge.
2) ASHCROFT, GRIFFITHS, 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.
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