COD 2025 - D1136
Webinar - “Dwelling on the Boundaries of the Self and the Other in Stories of Ourselves: The University of Cambridge International Examinations Anthology of Short Stories in English” (set readings from Volume II for IGCSE 2025, 2026, 2027)
IGCSE Literature and Language teachers interested in the "new literatures" and in working with both canonical and non-canonical texts
4
sessions, start: 19-May
Please enrol before Wednesday, May 14th 2025
Course detail
Year: 2025
Level: Distance
Language: English
Status: In progress
Lugar: Distance
Facilitator/s: Ms. Florencia Perduca MA
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Sessions
| Sessions | Dates | Start | Finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 19 May 2025 | 05:30 pm | 07:30 pm |
| 2 | 26 May 2025 | 05:30 pm | 07:30 pm |
| 3 | 02 June 2025 | 05:30 pm | 07:30 pm |
| 4 | 09 June 2025 | 05:30 pm | 07:30 pm |
Facilitator/s
Florencia Perduca
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.
- 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.
Contents: All 10 (ten) short stories from Stories of Ourselves:
From Stories of Ourselves Volume 2, the following 10 stories:
(*) IMPORTANT: This is the new set of stories for students to sit for in 2025, 2026, 2027.
no. 3 Christina Rossetti, ‘Nick’
no. 14 Olive Schreiner, ‘The Woman’s Rose’
no. 26 Ralph Ellison, ‘The Black Ball’
no. 30 Mulk Raj Anand, ‘The Gold Watch’
no. 35 Margaret Atwood, ‘When It Happens’
no. 37 J G Ballard, ‘The Man Who Walked on the Moon’
no. 38 Jamaica Kincaid, ‘A Walk to the Jetty’
no. 40 Jane Gardam, ‘Showing the Flag’
no. 47 Aminatta Forna, ‘Haywards Heath’
no. 49 Romesh Gunesekera, ‘Fluke’
This selection of 10 short stories may be found in Stories of Ourselves Volume 2: The University of Cambridge International Examinations Anthology of Short Stories in English (Cambridge University Press); passages from these stories in the paper will be printed as in this text.
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.
From Stories of Ourselves Volume 2, the following 10 stories:
(*) IMPORTANT: This is the new set of stories for students to sit for in 2025, 2026, 2027.
no. 3 Christina Rossetti, ‘Nick’
no. 14 Olive Schreiner, ‘The Woman’s Rose’
no. 26 Ralph Ellison, ‘The Black Ball’
no. 30 Mulk Raj Anand, ‘The Gold Watch’
no. 35 Margaret Atwood, ‘When It Happens’
no. 37 J G Ballard, ‘The Man Who Walked on the Moon’
no. 38 Jamaica Kincaid, ‘A Walk to the Jetty’
no. 40 Jane Gardam, ‘Showing the Flag’
no. 47 Aminatta Forna, ‘Haywards Heath’
no. 49 Romesh Gunesekera, ‘Fluke’
This selection of 10 short stories may be found in Stories of Ourselves Volume 2: The University of Cambridge International Examinations Anthology of Short Stories in English (Cambridge University Press); passages from these stories in the paper will be printed as in this text.
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) CAMBRIDGE ASSESSMENT INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION (2020). Stories of Ourselves: The Cambridge Assessment International Education Anthology of Stories in English, Volume 2 (ISBN 9781108436199).
5) GRADDOL, D. (1997) The Future of English?, London: The British Council.
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) CAMBRIDGE ASSESSMENT INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION (2020). Stories of Ourselves: The Cambridge Assessment International Education Anthology of Stories in English, Volume 2 (ISBN 9781108436199).
5) GRADDOL, D. (1997) The Future of English?, London: The British Council.