COD 2023 - D478
Webinar - "Dwelling on the Boundaries of Home and the Self in Stories of Ourselves: The University of Cambridge International Examinations Anthology of Short Stories in English" (set readings for IGCSE 2023)
IGCSE Literature and Language teachers interested in working with both canonical and non-canonical texts from a literary linguistic perspective
4
sessions, start: 13-Apr
The course chosen does not allow any new enrolment
Course detail
Year: 2023
Level: Distance
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: Distance
Facilitator/s: Ms. Florencia Perduca MA
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Sessions
| Sessions | Dates | Start | Finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 13 April 2023 | 05:30 pm | 07:30 pm |
| 2 | 20 April 2023 | 05:30 pm | 07:30 pm |
| 3 | 11 May 2023 | 05:30 pm | 07:30 pm |
| 4 | 18 May 2023 | 05:30 pm | 07:30 pm |
Facilitator/s
Florencia Perduca
IGCSE Literature and Language teachers interested in working with both canonical and non-canonical texts from a literary linguistic perspective
- 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.
All 10 (ten) short stories from Stories of Ourselves:
From Stories of Ourselves Volume 2, the following 10 stories:
-no. 2 Nathaniel Hawthorne’s ‘Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment’
-no. 16 O Henry’s ‘The Furnished Room’
-no. 18 Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s ‘The Widow’s Might’
-no. 25 Henry Handel Richardson’s ‘And Women Must Weep’
-no. 29 Marghanita Laski’s ‘The Tower’
-no. 31 Janet Frame’s ‘The Reservoir’
-no. 32 Langston Hughes’s ‘Thank You M’am’
-no. 41 Anjana Appachana’s ‘Sharmaji’
-no. 43 Yiyun Li’s ‘A Thousand Years of Good Prayers’
-no. 44 Segun Afolabi’s ‘Mrs Mahmood’
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).
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 signifying individual/collective identity) cutting across set stories.
Narratology.
Symbols and motifs.
Diction, imagery, and rhetoric.
-Activities that meet IGCSE requirements.
From Stories of Ourselves Volume 2, the following 10 stories:
-no. 2 Nathaniel Hawthorne’s ‘Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment’
-no. 16 O Henry’s ‘The Furnished Room’
-no. 18 Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s ‘The Widow’s Might’
-no. 25 Henry Handel Richardson’s ‘And Women Must Weep’
-no. 29 Marghanita Laski’s ‘The Tower’
-no. 31 Janet Frame’s ‘The Reservoir’
-no. 32 Langston Hughes’s ‘Thank You M’am’
-no. 41 Anjana Appachana’s ‘Sharmaji’
-no. 43 Yiyun Li’s ‘A Thousand Years of Good Prayers’
-no. 44 Segun Afolabi’s ‘Mrs Mahmood’
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).
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 signifying individual/collective identity) cutting across set stories.
Narratology.
Symbols and motifs.
Diction, imagery, and rhetoric.
-Activities that meet IGCSE requirements.
1) Presentation and discussion of how to approach texts from a literary linguistic perspective. 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, 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.