COD 2024 - D995
Webinar - Staging What is Left. Teaching A Long Day’s Journey into the Night (set text, AS & A Level Literature 2024)
Language and Literature teachers interested in teaching Literature, in general, and A Long Day's Journey into the Night, in particular. Literature lovers interested in discussing this dramatic piece from a critical perspective
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sessions, start: 21-Aug
The course chosen does not allow any new enrolment
Course detail
Year: 2024
Level: Distance
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: Distance
Facilitator/s: Cecilia Lasa MA
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Sessions
Sessions | Dates | Start | Finish |
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1 | 21 August 2024 | 05:30 pm | 07:30 pm |
Facilitator/s
Cecilia Lasa
Language and Literature teachers interested in teaching Literature, in general, and A Long Day's Journey into the Night, in particular. Literature lovers interested in discussing this dramatic piece from a critical perspective
- To identify the main problems and challenges teachers and student may face when studying A Long Day’s Journey into the Night
- To account for the main conflict(s) in the play
- To explain how the construction of characters and the setting contributes to the main conflict(s) in A Long Day’s Journey into the Night
- To analyse the cultural and political implications of the play
- To discuss possible strategies, activities, resources and dynamics to tackle A Long Day’s Journey into the Night in class
- To account for the main conflict(s) in the play
- To explain how the construction of characters and the setting contributes to the main conflict(s) in A Long Day’s Journey into the Night
- To analyse the cultural and political implications of the play
- To discuss possible strategies, activities, resources and dynamics to tackle A Long Day’s Journey into the Night in class
- The USA in the context of the First and the Second World Wars.
- Character construction.
- Setting and atmosphere.
- Family and violence.
- The public and the private.
- Character construction.
- Setting and atmosphere.
- Family and violence.
- The public and the private.
- Recovery of attendees' main difficulties when teaching literary texts and of their previous knowledge about the play and its author
- Discussion of the problems related to the context of production
- Introduction to Eugene O’Neill’s theatre and the importance of this play
- Exploration of specific features of the play –stage directions, characters, setting, conflict, etc.
- Guided group analysis of the play.
- Discussion of the problems related to the context of production
- Introduction to Eugene O’Neill’s theatre and the importance of this play
- Exploration of specific features of the play –stage directions, characters, setting, conflict, etc.
- Guided group analysis of the play.
Source text
O’Neill. E. A Long Day’s Journey into the Night.
Critical and theoretical material
Bloom. H. (ed.) (2009). Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations). New York: Infobase Publishing.
Manheim. M. (ed.) (2009). The Cambridge Companion to Eugene O'Neill's. Cambridge: CUP.
Cambridge’s Bibliography about Literature in English
Cambridge International Examinations (2018). Learner Guide IGCSE® Literature in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Russell, C (2018). Cambridge IGCSE® and O Level Literature in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Whitthome, E (2018). AS & A Level Literature in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
O’Neill. E. A Long Day’s Journey into the Night.
Critical and theoretical material
Bloom. H. (ed.) (2009). Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations). New York: Infobase Publishing.
Manheim. M. (ed.) (2009). The Cambridge Companion to Eugene O'Neill's. Cambridge: CUP.
Cambridge’s Bibliography about Literature in English
Cambridge International Examinations (2018). Learner Guide IGCSE® Literature in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Russell, C (2018). Cambridge IGCSE® and O Level Literature in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Whitthome, E (2018). AS & A Level Literature in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.