COD 2018 - PS182
Neil Gaiman’s The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Primary & Secondary School teachers
1
sessions, start: 15-May
The course chosen does not allow any new enrolment
Course detail
Year: 2018
Level: Primary / Secondary
Language: English
Status: Postponed
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Ms. María Cecilia Pena Koessler MA
ESSARP Schools
Free of charge
Free of charge
Exams Schools
ARS 500.00
ARS 500.00
Non affiliate
ARS 500.00
ARS 500.00
Sessions
| Sessions | Dates | Start | Finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 15 May 2018 | 05:30 pm | 08:30 pm |
Facilitator/s
María Cecilia Pena Koessler
Primary & Secondary School teachers
- To acquaint teachers with distinguished contemporary children’s writers whose work students will find both extremely appealing and easy reading.
- To propose authentic material, rather than graded readers, for an age group who is often difficult to please.
- To provide teachers with innovative teaching strategies that will allow them to make the most of the novels in preparation for future IGCSE ones.
- To propose authentic material, rather than graded readers, for an age group who is often difficult to please.
- To provide teachers with innovative teaching strategies that will allow them to make the most of the novels in preparation for future IGCSE ones.
On the cover of Neil Gaiman's extraordinary tale, Coraline, is a quotation from Terry Pratchett, saying that the story has "the delicate horror of the finest fairytales". Gaiman is a master of fear, and he understands the nature of fairytales, the relation between the writer, the reader and the character in the tale. The Ocean at the End of the Lane, like Coraline and like The Graveyard Book, has a young central character – a resourceful and determined child – who finds his world transfigured by terror and strangeness. Coraline goes through a door into a house in every way replicating her own, inhabited by a copy of her mother with black button eyes. Bod (full name Nobody Owens) is brought up by ghosts in a graveyard after the murder of his parents and sister. The narrator of The Ocean at the End of the Lane starts his story with that feared disaster of childhood, the seventh birthday party to which no one came. (The Guardian)
A groundbreaking work from a master, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is told with a rare understanding of all that makes us human, and shows the power of stories to reveal and shelter us from the darkness inside and out. It is a stirring, terrifying, and elegiac fable as delicate as a butterfly's wing and as menacing as a knife in the dark. (Goodreads)
NO PREVIOUS READING OF MATERIAL IS REQUIRED
Teachers can choose to either read the novel beforehand (copies are available at bookstores) or attend the session in order to familiarize themselves with the author via excerpts.
A groundbreaking work from a master, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is told with a rare understanding of all that makes us human, and shows the power of stories to reveal and shelter us from the darkness inside and out. It is a stirring, terrifying, and elegiac fable as delicate as a butterfly's wing and as menacing as a knife in the dark. (Goodreads)
NO PREVIOUS READING OF MATERIAL IS REQUIRED
Teachers can choose to either read the novel beforehand (copies are available at bookstores) or attend the session in order to familiarize themselves with the author via excerpts.
This session will be organized in terms of workshop for participants to enrich their understanding of the text with contributions from the group. We will discuss the target audience for the text, points of entry, textual interventions and intertextual links which can be established with other verbal or visual texts.
Gaiman, Neil (2013). The Ocean at the End of the Lane. New York: HarperCollins Publishers.