COD 2017 - G881

Cultural Programme: Reading and Media Breakfast: Ali Smith's "The Accidental"

All literature lovers

1 sessions, start: 02-Sep

Course detail

Year: 2017
Level: General
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Mr. Daniel Ferreyra Fernández
Print course
ESSARP Schools
Free of charge
Exams Schools
ARS 400.00
Non affiliate
ARS 400.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 02 September 2017 09:00 am 12:00 pm

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 and exchange ideas on one of Ali Smith’s most acclaimed novels, her 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 the meaning of the novel.
Ali Smith’s The Accidental revolves around a middle-class English family who are visited by an uninvited guest while on holiday in a small village in Norfolk. The arrival of this guest will have a profound effect on all the family members, disrupting their lifestyles and forcing them to reexamine themselves and their outlook on the world around them. As an intertextual and “intergeneric” novel, The Accidental offers an insightful examination of the nature of perception and representation, but it is also brimming with wit, humour and surprise.
- Presentation of an integrated approach to the text.
- Guided group reflection and exchange of ideas on the text.
- Reading of key sections of the novel to appreciate its narrative power.
Ali Smith’s The Accidental (2005).
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