COD 2022 - D753
Webinar - IGCSE/AS Literature: Teaching Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman (set text)
AS Language and Literature teachers, IGCSE Literature teachers, secondary school teachers interested in helping students to analyse Death and the King's Horseman (set text) considering the specificities of the play in relation to the requirements of the examination
1
sessions, start: 02-Aug
The course chosen does not allow any new enrolment
Course detail
Year: 2022
Level: Distance
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: Distance
Facilitator/s: Cecilia Lasa MA
ESSARP Schools
Free of charge
Free of charge
Exams Schools
ARS 2200.00
ARS 2200.00
Non affiliate
ARS 2200.00
ARS 2200.00
Sessions
Sessions | Dates | Start | Finish |
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1 | 02 August 2022 | 05:30 pm | 07:00 pm |
Facilitator/s
Cecilia Lasa
AS Language and Literature teachers, IGCSE Literature teachers, secondary school teachers interested in helping students to analyse Death and the King's Horseman (set text) considering the specificities of the play in relation to the requirements of the examination
- To identify the main problems and challenges teachers and student may face when studying Death and the King's Horseman
- To account for the main conflict(s) in the play
- To explain how the construction of characters and the setting contribute to the main conflict(s) in Death and the King's Horseman
- To analyse the cultural and political implications of the play
- To discuss possible strategies and activities to tackle Death and the King's Horseman in class.
- To account for the main conflict(s) in the play
- To explain how the construction of characters and the setting contribute to the main conflict(s) in Death and the King's Horseman
- To analyse the cultural and political implications of the play
- To discuss possible strategies and activities to tackle Death and the King's Horseman in class.
- Wole Soyinka and post-Independence African Literature
- Staging the colonial experience: setting, atmosphere, characterisation, dramatic conflict
- Interpreting death from the Yoruba perspective and from the British point of view: rituals vs. tragedies
- Interpreting the individual from the Yoruba perspective and from the British point of view: the human as part of a universal order vs. the human as a privileged entity
- Race and gender
- Staging the colonial experience: setting, atmosphere, characterisation, dramatic conflict
- Interpreting death from the Yoruba perspective and from the British point of view: rituals vs. tragedies
- Interpreting the individual from the Yoruba perspective and from the British point of view: the human as part of a universal order vs. the human as a privileged entity
- Race and gender
1) Discussion of the problems and challenges teachers and student may face when studying Death and the King's Horseman 2) Exploration of specific components of the play: characters, setting, atmosphere, conflict(s), themes, literary devices, etc. 3) Analysis of possible activities, resources and strategies to teach Death and the King's Horseman 4) Guided group reflection.
Source text
Soyinka, Wole. Death and the King's Horseman. London: Methuen, 1999.
Critical material
Jeyifo, Biodun, Irele, Abiola(Eds.). Wole Soyinka: Politics, Poetics, and Postcolonialism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 2003.
Ojaide, Tanure. “Teaching Wole Soyinka’s ‘Death and the King’s Horseman’ to American College Students.” College Literature 19/20, no. 3/1 (1992): 210–14. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25112004.
Williams, Adebayo. “Ritual and the Political Unconscious: The Case of ‘Death and the King’s Horseman.’” Research in African Literatures 24, no. 1 (1993): 67–79. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3820199.
Cambridge Bibliography about Literature in English
Cambridge International Examinations. Learner Guide IGCSE® Literature in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Russell, Carey. Cambridge IGCSE® and O Level Literature in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Whitthome, Elizabeth. AS & A Level Literature in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Soyinka, Wole. Death and the King's Horseman. London: Methuen, 1999.
Critical material
Jeyifo, Biodun, Irele, Abiola(Eds.). Wole Soyinka: Politics, Poetics, and Postcolonialism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 2003.
Ojaide, Tanure. “Teaching Wole Soyinka’s ‘Death and the King’s Horseman’ to American College Students.” College Literature 19/20, no. 3/1 (1992): 210–14. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25112004.
Williams, Adebayo. “Ritual and the Political Unconscious: The Case of ‘Death and the King’s Horseman.’” Research in African Literatures 24, no. 1 (1993): 67–79. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3820199.
Cambridge Bibliography about Literature in English
Cambridge International Examinations. Learner Guide IGCSE® Literature in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Russell, Carey. Cambridge IGCSE® and O Level Literature in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Whitthome, Elizabeth. AS & A Level Literature in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.