COD 2006 - G328A

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.

1 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
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ESSARP Schools
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Non affiliate
ARS 10.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 25 April 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”.
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.
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.
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