COD 2023 - D851
Webinar - Exploring the Great Migration and Racism in Crumbs from the Table of Joy, by Lynn Nottage (Set text for IGCSE Literature 2023/2024)
IGCSE Literature teachers and Literature lovers
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sessions, start: 06-Jun
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Course detail
Year: 2023
Level: Distance
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: Distance
Facilitator/s: Ms. Julia Fernández Armendariz, Mrs. Maria Victoria Llera
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Sessions
Sessions | Dates | Start | Finish |
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1 | 06 June 2023 | 05:30 pm | 07:00 pm |
Facilitator/s
Julia Fernández Armendariz
Maria Victoria Llera
IGCSE Literature teachers and Literature lovers
- To explore Lynn Nottage’s Crumbs from the Table of Joy, with a focus on the setting and on
what characterisation may be reflecting about the American society of the 1950s.
- To discuss main themes as well as rhetorical and theatrical devices that further meaning in
the literary work.
- To look into key passages through detailed readings to study how Nottage constructs
semantic fields to build up tension and/or foreshadow events.
- To share teaching strategies regarding the approach to IGCSE Literature.
what characterisation may be reflecting about the American society of the 1950s.
- To discuss main themes as well as rhetorical and theatrical devices that further meaning in
the literary work.
- To look into key passages through detailed readings to study how Nottage constructs
semantic fields to build up tension and/or foreshadow events.
- To share teaching strategies regarding the approach to IGCSE Literature.
- Presentation of the historical and social context of the United States in the 1950s, with special attention to how The Great Migration affected societies and individuals and the Second Red Scare shaped the decade.
- Discussion of the illusion vs the reality of the American Dream.
- Discussion of central notions of racism and discrimination against the black community in the US.
- Analysis of revealing extracts with a focus on how Nottage constructs meaning through themes, language and key symbols.
- Discussion of the illusion vs the reality of the American Dream.
- Discussion of central notions of racism and discrimination against the black community in the US.
- Analysis of revealing extracts with a focus on how Nottage constructs meaning through themes, language and key symbols.
- Study of key extracts and strategies to approach a passage-based question.
- Discussion of the main themes, symbols and overall concerns of the literary work.
- Discussion of the main themes, symbols and overall concerns of the literary work.
- Nottage, L. (2021) Crumbs from the Table of Joy. London: Nick Hern Books.
- Buckner, J. (2016) A Critical Companion to Lynn Nottage. London: Routledge.
- Selected articles.
- Buckner, J. (2016) A Critical Companion to Lynn Nottage. London: Routledge.
- Selected articles.