COD 2006 - G328

Reading Groups on Contemporary Literature

These sessions are aimed at language and literature teachers interested in exploring contemporary texts and perhaps in organising reading groups in their own schools. It is highly advisable that teachers should have read the novels prior to the sessions.

7 sessions, start: 25-Apr

Course detail

Year: 2006
Level: General
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Ms. Flavia Daniela Pittella, Ms. Verónica Storni Fricke, Ms. Susana Gullco Groisman, Claudia Ferradas PhD
Print course
ESSARP Schools
ARS
Exams Schools
ARS
Non affiliate
ARS 80.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 25 April 2006 05:30 pm 07:30 pm
2 23 May 2006 05:30 pm 07:30 pm
3 27 June 2006 05:30 pm 07:30 pm
4 18 July 2006 05:30 pm 07:30 pm
5 29 August 2006 05:30 pm 07:30 pm
6 26 September 2006 05:30 pm 07:30 pm
7 31 October 2006 05:30 pm 07:30 pm

Facilitator/s

Flavia Daniela Pittella

Ms. Flavia Pittella graduated from the University of La Plata as a Teacher of English Language and Literature. She is also Lic. in Ciencias Sociales, FLACSO, with special mention in Reading, Writing and Education. She has participated in international academic conferences and has published articles in different magazines. She holds several Postgraduate courses in literature and language teaching. For the past 20 years, she has taught ESL classrooms and ESL examinations for the IGCSE/AS Language and Literature. She has been a Reading group facilitator for over nine years. She is a cultural journalist at Radio Mitre and several other media. She has published "40 libros que adoro y no podes dejar de leer". Planeta, 2014. She writes regularly for Infobae Cultura. She is the director of “El tercer lugar: espacio cultural”.

Verónica Storni Fricke

Verónica Storni Fricke is now doing her doctorate studies on feminist criticism of Shakespeare's plays at UBA, Filosofía y Letras. She is a graduate English teacher from IES en Lenguas Vivas, specialized in English Literature. Licenciada en Inglés from Universidad Nacional del Litoral. Tenured Lecturer in the Seminar "Shakespeare and Feminism" at IES en Lenguas Vivas. IB English teacher at Tarbut College and Instituto Ballester Schule.

Susana Gullco Groisman

She graduated with distinction in British History and Literature from the Instituto Superior del Profesorado "Dr. Joaquín V. González" and was a lecturer in Contemporary British Literature in her alma mater institution for forty years (having gone through competition to obtain tenure in 1975). She has been a guest speaker at numerous educational centres in our country. She is the former Head of the English Department at the I.S.P."J. V. González" and former President of APIBA. At present she belongs to the team of Literature lecturers at the English Speaking Scholastic Association of the River Plate Centre.

Claudia Ferradas

Dr. Claudia Ferradas is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she got her first degree as a teacher of English at the Instituto de Enseñanza Superior en Lenguas Vivas “Juan Ramón Fernández”. She holds an MA in Education and Professional Development from the University of East Anglia and a PhD in English Studies from the University of Nottingham, UK. She is an experienced presenter and ELT author who travels the world as a teacher educator. She often works as a consultant for the British Council and Trinity College London. She is also a presenter for Oxford University Press and is an Oxford Teachers’ Academy Trainer.
In Argentina, she has taught language and literature at the Instituto de Enseñanza Superior en Lenguas Vivas “Juan Ramón Fernández”, Buenos Aires, where she was also “Regente del nivel superior”. She teaches on the MA programme in Literatures in English at the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza. She coordinates the literature and cultural programmes at ESSARP.
In the UK, Claudia has been a Visiting Fellow and research supervisor at the School of Languages, Leeds Metropolitan University, and is now a member of the NILE (Norwich Institute for Language Education) Advisory Board and the Extensive Reading Foundation committee.
Claudia has co-chaired the Oxford Conference on the Teaching of Literature on five occasions and has also worked as Project Manager for the Penguin Active Readers Teacher Support Programme. She has also taught on the MA programme in TEFL at the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Spain.
She is a member of the editorial committee of several journals: AJAL (Argentine Journal of Applied Linguistics); Revista Interdisciplinar de Formación Docente Kimün (Instituto de Formación Docente Continua, San Luis, Argentina); Conexión, Revista de Investigaciones y Propuestas Educativas (Instituto de Educación Superior N° 28 “Olga Cossettini”, Rosario, Argentina) and CLELE Journal (Children’s Literature in English Language Education).
These sessions are aimed at language and literature teachers interested in exploring contemporary texts and perhaps in organising reading groups in their own schools. It is highly advisable that teachers should have read the novels prior to the sessions.
During the three meetings, participants will form part of a community of readers actively exchanging views on texts. Discussion and reflection will aim at demystifying the literary text, prioritising reader response and intercultural awareness.
We’ll be reading New Writing 13 and other contemporary texts. Copies of the New Writing 13 anthology donated by the British Council are already available in the library. - April 25: Flavia Pitella: The Fiction of Hanif Kureishi (the author will be visiting the Buenos Aires Book Fair). Participants are asked to read as much as possible from the following, in particular the story “That was Then”. The texts are available to photocopy at ESSARP: From Midnight All Day, Faber & Faber, London 2000) three short stories: "That Was Then", "Strangers When we Meet" (available on the web at: http://www.hanifkureishi.com/strangers.html ) and "Midnight All Day" The essay "Something Given.- Reflections on Writing" Available at: http://www.hanifkureishi.com/something_given.html From Intimacy, Faber & Faber, London, 1999: pp 3 to 8, 52 to 64, 94 to 103 and 112 to 117. - May 30: Flavia Pittella: New Writing 13: The Art of Writing- What constitutes a piece of writing? What constitutes a writer? And a reader? “The Words on the Page and the Noise in My Head” (essay) by Lawrence Norfolk “Stories from a Phone Book” (poem) by Steven Hall. - June 27: Flavia Pittella: New Writing 13: The Art of Writing- What constitutes a piece of writing? What constitutes a writer? And a reader? “Author’s Ghost” (poem) by Muriel Spark - “Novel” by A.S. Irvine. - July 25: Verónica Storni Fricke: New Writing 13: Survivors: guilt, desire and coming to terms from a philosophical and psychological perspective. “Twenty Gods and the Pomegranate Seeds” by Azmeena Ladha – “A Portrait” by Tony Peake. - August 29: Susana Groisman: New Writing 13: Lessons in Life. “Hangman” by David Mitchell - “A Little Nest of Pedagogues” by Fay Weldon. - September 26: Susana Groisman: New Writing 13: Bullies (men bullying women). “Gloria” by Kate Atkinson- “In the Driving Seat” by Helen Simpson. In memory of Betty Friedan who died on her 85th birthday, 4 Feb.2006 - October 31: Verónica Storni Fricke: New Writing 13: Resignation, forbearance and harmony. A connection to our present-day life situations. "Let's Get Things Sorted" by Daren King - "Doikitsa"| by Louise Doughty| - November 28: Claudia Ferradas Moi: New Writing 13: Intracultures: “Anunciation with Unknown Bird”, “Annunciation with a Garland of Self-Heal” and “Annunciation with impending rainstorm: pasó un angel” by John Burnside - “Goat” by Romesh Gunesekera.
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