COD 2021 - D478

Webinar - "Dwelling on the Boundaries of the Self in Stories of Ourselves: The University of Cambridge International Examinations Anthology of Short Stories in English" (set reading for IGCSE 2021/22/23)

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

4 sessions, start: 06-May

Course detail

Year: 2021
Level: Distance
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: Distance
Facilitator/s: Ms. Florencia Perduca MA
Print course
ESSARP Schools
Free of charge
Exams Schools
ARS 7200.00
Non affiliate
ARS 7200.00

Sessions


Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 06 May 2021 05:30 pm 07:30 pm
2 13 May 2021 05:30 pm 07:30 pm
3 20 May 2021 05:30 pm 07:30 pm
4 27 May 2021 05:30 pm 07:30 pm

Facilitator/s

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.
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 resignifiying individual/collective identity) cutting across set stories.
-Narratology.
-Symbols and motifs.
-Diction, imagery and rhetoric.
-Activities which meet IGCSE requirements.

Methodology: 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.
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