COD 2022 - D689

Webinar - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: AS 2023-2025

AS level Literature teachers and Literature teachers in general

1 sessions, start: 17-Oct

Course detail

Year: 2022
Level: Distance
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: Distance
Facilitator/s: Mr. Leonardo Andrés Pantaleo
Print course
ESSARP Schools
Free of charge
Exams Schools
ARS 2200.00
Non affiliate
ARS 2200.00

Sessions


Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 17 October 2022 05:30 pm 07:00 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 play.
- To discuss possible ways of facilitating students' reading.
- To share ways of approaching the text in class with engaging activities.
The uneasy marriage of success and idealism
Gender and Sexual Politics
Heroines in Williams’s plays
What is said and not: dialects and homophobic discourse
The play, the different versions and the passing of time
- 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 level Literature examinations, including close reading techniques, thinking routines and games, among others.
- AS level syllabus and material available on www.cie.org.uk
- Bloom, Harold. Tennessee Williams’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Modern Critical Interpretations. Chelsea House Publishers. USA, 2002.
- Brooks, Amy. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: 60 Years of American Dialogue on Sex, Gender, and the Nuclear Family. University of Massachusetts Amherst. USA, 2016.
Masters Theses. 316. https://doi.org/10.7275/7942130 https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/316
- Husein, Saddam. Margaret’s Emotional and Social Loneliness in “A Cat on the Hot Tin Roof”. Anaphora: A Journal of Language, Literary and Cultural Studies. Volume 3 Number 2 December 2020. Pages 81-87.
- Price, Marian. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: The Uneasy Marriage of Success and Idealism. University of Toronto Press. Volume 38, Number 3, Fall 1995. Pages. 324-335
- Williams Tennessee. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. A New Directions Book. New York, 2004
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