COD 2023 - D901

Webinar - Cultural Programme - Reading and Media Breakfasts: "A Taste of Claire Keegan's Foster"

All literature lovers

1 sessions, start: 23-Sep

Course detail

Year: 2023
Level: Distance
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: A distancia
Facilitator/s: Mr. Daniel Ferreyra Fernández
Print course
ESSARP Schools
Free of charge
Exams Schools
ARS 4500.00
Non affiliate
ARS 4500.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 23 September 2023 10:00 am 11:30 am

Facilitator/s

Daniel Ferreyra Fernández

Daniel Ferreyra Fernández graduated from ISP “Dr. Joaquín V. González” as a teacher of English as a Foreign Language in 1998. He specialized in Contemporary Literature at ISP “Dr. Joaquín V. González” (1999 – 2005). Since 2001, he has been teaching courses and workshops on Contemporary Literature at “Asociación Argentina de Cultura Inglesa” (AACI) and at the British Art Centre (BAC). He currently teaches English Language IV at IES en Lenguas Vivas “Juan Ramón Fernández”, ENS en Lenguas Vivas “Sofía B. de Spangenberg” and at ISP “Dr. Joaquín V. González”. He also teaches IGCSE Literature and English B (International Baccalaureate) courses at Colegio Palermo Chico. From 2016 to 2018 he was the Vice Dean at IES en Lenguas Vivas “Juan Ramón Fernández”, where he is currently the Head of the English Department at the Teacher Training college. He has been a facilitator at ESSARP since 2012.
All literature lovers
- To share the joys of reading fiction.
- To discuss Claire Keegan's "Foster" (2010).
- To explore relevant sections from the film adaptation "The Quiet Girl" (2022).
- To exchange ideas on Keegan’s narrative techniques, her recurrent themes and her fictional universe.
- To build strategies that will enable the participants to take an active role in the creation of multiple possible readings of the novella.
In Claire Keegan's coming-of-age novella, a small girl is sent to live with foster parents on a farm in rural Ireland in the summer of 1981. The protagonist's journey outwards into the countryside is also a journey inwards, in which she develops a new sense of self and a new awareness of loss and grief. However, she also discovers a kind of love she has not known before at home and creates enduring bonds of affection with the couple that cared for her during that life-changing summer.
- Reading of key sections of Claire Keegan's "Foster" (2010).
- Exploring relevant sections from the fim adaptation "The Quiet Girl" (2022).
- Guided group reflection and exchange of ideas on a selection of excerpts from the novella.
- Presentation of an integrated approach to the text.
Claire Keegan's "Foster" (2010).
Colm Bairéad's "The Quiet Girl" (2022).
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