COD 2024 - D989
“Dwelling on the Boundaries of the Self and the Other in Stories of Ourselves: The University of Cambridge International Examinations Anthology of Short Stories in English” (new set readings from Volume II for IGCSE 2025 & 2026)
IGCSE as well as Literature and Language teachers interested in the ‘new literatures' and in working with both canonical and non-canonical texts in class, applying active instrumental reading for literary linguistic analysis
4
sessions, start: 02-May
Please enrol before Monday, April 29th 2024
Course detail
Year: 2024
Level: Distance
Language: English
Status: In progress
Lugar: Distance
Facilitator/s: Ms. Florencia Perduca MA
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Sessions
| Sessions | Dates | Schedule |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 02 May 2024 | Online session |
| 2 | 09 May 2024 | Online session |
| 3 | 16 May 2024 | Online session |
| 4 | 23 May 2024 | Online session |
Facilitator/s
Florencia Perduca
IGCSE as well as Literature and Language teachers interested in the ‘new literatures' and in working with both canonical and non-canonical texts in class, applying active instrumental reading for literary linguistic analysis
- To explore instrumental reading and its formative value.
- To propose a context-based and 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.
- To propose a context-based and 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.
All 10 (ten) short stories from From Stories of Ourselves Volume 2:
(*) IMPORTANT: This is the new set of stories for students to sit for in 2025 & 2026.
no. 3 Christina Rossetti, "Nick"
no. 14 Olive Schreiner, "The Woman's Rose"
no. 26 Ralph Ellison, "The Black Ball"
no. 30 Mulk Raj Anand, "The Gold Watch"
no. 35 Margaret Atwood, "When It Happens"
no. 37 J G Ballard, "The Man Who Walked on the Moon"
no. 38 Jamaica Kincaid, "Walk to the Jetty"
no. 40 Jane Gardam, "Showing the Flag"
no. 47 Aminatta Forna, "Haywards Heath"
no. 49 Romesh Gunesekera, "Fluke"
We will share a literary-linguistic analysis of these 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 ‘self/other´ as resignifying individual/collective identity) cutting across set stories.
- Narratology.
- Symbols and motifs.
- Diction, imagery, and rhetoric.
- Activities that meet IGCSE requirements.
(*) IMPORTANT: This is the new set of stories for students to sit for in 2025 & 2026.
no. 3 Christina Rossetti, "Nick"
no. 14 Olive Schreiner, "The Woman's Rose"
no. 26 Ralph Ellison, "The Black Ball"
no. 30 Mulk Raj Anand, "The Gold Watch"
no. 35 Margaret Atwood, "When It Happens"
no. 37 J G Ballard, "The Man Who Walked on the Moon"
no. 38 Jamaica Kincaid, "Walk to the Jetty"
no. 40 Jane Gardam, "Showing the Flag"
no. 47 Aminatta Forna, "Haywards Heath"
no. 49 Romesh Gunesekera, "Fluke"
We will share a literary-linguistic analysis of these 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 ‘self/other´ as resignifying individual/collective identity) cutting across set stories.
- Narratology.
- Symbols and motifs.
- Diction, imagery, and rhetoric.
- Activities that meet IGCSE requirements.
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 a reflection on how they mean
5) Critical analysis of IGCSE papers (passage for comment, literary essay, and the unseen text.
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 a 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.
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.