COD 2017 - P216

Shakespeare for Primary

Primary school teachers

1 sessions, start: 24-May

Course detail

Year: 2017
Level: Primary
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Ms. María Cecilia Pena Koessler MA
Print course
ESSARP Schools
Free of charge
Exams Schools
ARS 400.00
Non affiliate
ARS 400.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 24 May 2017 05:30 pm 08:30 pm

Facilitator/s

María Cecilia Pena Koessler

Graduate Teacher of English at Primary level and at Secondary level from I.E.S en Lenguas Vivas "J. R. Fernández." Postgraduate course in Medieval and Renaissance Literature at I.E.S en Lenguas Vivas "J.R. Fernández." MA in Literary Linguistics (University of Nottingham) and Medieval Studies Master's degree student (UBA). She teaches English Literature I and Children and YA 's Literature at I.S.P. J.V.González and I.E.S. en Lenguas Vivas "J.R. Fernández" Teacher Training Colleges and IGCSE and IB literature at secondary schools. She has participated in research projects on Intercultural Awareness and Border Thery. She has co-authored "Little Stars" pre-primary series and "Our Stories" primary series for Pearson and designed creative writing and literature materials for other series (Pearson and Macmillan).
Primary school teachers
Teachers will learn:
-to overcome the fear of teaching Shakespeare to children in the English class
-to delve into the staging and traditions of Elizabethan drama to stir children's imagination
-to select and focus on passages of the plays that are both dramatic and "meaty"
-to provide examples of creative and highly-motivating activities, exercises and games that work for almost any Shakespeare play
-to explore the different adaptations that Shakespeare's plays have gone through (comic, manga, textspeak, fanart, fanfiction, etc)
No previous knowledge of Shakespeare's plays is needed as we will work on passages that will be provided the day of the workshop.
The course will be organized in terms of a workshop for participants to enrich their understanding of Shakespeare's plays with contributions from the group. They will discuss points of entry, textual interventions and intertextual links which can be established with other verbal or visual texts.
Chirinian, Alain (1997). Shakespeare Plays in the Classroom: Romeo and Juliet. Torrance: Good Apple.
Hoppin Egan, Lorraine (1998). Teaching Shakespeare Yes You Can! New York: Scholastic.
Gibson, Rex (2001). Language of Shakespeare. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Ludwig, Ken (2013) How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare. New York: Broadway Books.
Stredder, James (2004). The North Face of Shakespeare: Activities for Teaching the Plays. Stratford-Upon-Avon: Wincot Press.
Williams, Marcia (1998) Mr William Shakespeare's Plays. London: Walker Books.
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