COD 2021 - D410

Webinar - All My Sons: AS 2021-2022

AS level Literature teachers and Literature teachers in general

1 sessions, start: 10-Mar

Course detail

Year: 2021
Level: Distance
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: Distance
Facilitator/s: Mr. Leonardo Andrés Pantaleo
Print course
ESSARP Schools
Free of charge
Exams Schools
ARS 1800.00
Non affiliate
ARS 1800.00

Sessions


Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 10 March 2021 05:30 pm 07:30 pm

Facilitator/s

Leonardo Andrés Pantaleo

Leonardo graduated from the University of La Plata as a Teacher of English Language and Literature. He is doing his MA degree in Literary Studies at UBA. He has worked as a Teaching Assistant in Contemporary English Literature for two years and one in English Culture and Civilization at UNLP. He has participated in several academic conferences. For the past fifteen years, he has taught ESL and FLE classes for IGCSE and AS/A English Language and Literature in English at Patris Bilingual School, City Bell, and he has prepared IB candidates at St. George's, Quilmes and at Southern International School. For the past three years, he has developed digital material for an online educational platform.
AS level Literature teachers and Literature teachers in general
- To present the context of production and its marks in the text.

- To provide AS literature teachers with useful tools for the analysis of the novel.

- To discuss possible ways of facilitating students' reading.

- To share ways of approaching the text in class with engaging activities.
• Whose sons? Accountability and its implication in the play

• The other side of the American Dream: the limits of pragmatism

• Setting: the US after WW2

• Destiny, Poetic Justice and Horoscope: foreshadowing the ominous final twist

• Gender roles: expectations and portrayal of male and female characters

• A decade of Miller: analysis of All my sons in relation to three of his other plays
- Presentation and discussion of the play, its context of production and its themes.

- Participants will be presented with material to arouse students' interest and to facilitate their understanding of the text.

- Discussion of possible ways to enhance students’ analysis and production for AS Literature examinations; including close reading techniques, thinking routines and games, among others.
- AS syllabus and material available on www.cie.org.uk

- Bloom, Harold. Arthur Miller's All My Sons (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations). Chelsea House Publ, June 1st 1987.

- Miller, Arthur. All My Sons. Penguin Classics. London, 2000

- Miller, Arthur, A View from the Bridge. Penguin Classics, London, 2000.

- Miller, Arthur. Death of a Salesman. Penguin Classics. London, 2000

- Miller, Arthur. The Crucible. Penguin Classics. London, 2000.

- Mishra, Raj Kumar. Arthur Miller’s All My Sons in the light of Aristotles Poetics. International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature (IJSELL) Volume 2, Issue 1, January 2014, PP 25-28.

- Williams, Raimond. The Realism of Arthur Miller. Universities and Left Review. Autumn 1959.
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