COD 2010 - PS65

Maximizing the Use of Newspapers in the Language and Literature Class

Middle-Secondary School-teachers.

1 sessions, start: 19-May

Course detail

Year: 2010
Level: Primary / Secondary
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Ms. María Cecilia Pena Koessler MA
Print course
ESSARP Schools
ARS
Exams Schools
ARS
Non affiliate
ARS 65.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 19 May 2010 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).
Middle-Secondary School-teachers.

- To encourage English teachers to use newspapers in the language and literature class.
- To acquaint teachers with the language of newspapers.
- To analyze the impact different types of headlines on readers.
- To link the written text with photos, captions and cutlines.
- To compare the discourse of broadsheets and tabloids.
- To investigate the ideological bias of the press.
- To show teachers a wide variety of scavenger hunts for all levels.
- To explore creative writing activities with newspaper articles.
By means of theoretical and practical frameworks, we will analyze how the press portrays current events. We will discuss different strategies used in headlines, photos, captions and cutlines to catch the readers' attention. We will read between lines in order to resurface hidden ideologies in broadsheets and tabloids and we will work with activities that trigger off discussion and creative writing.
- Oral presentation.
- Group work.
- Creative writing activities.
- Burt, T. (2006) Newspaper Scavenger Hunt. Teacher Created resources. Inc.
- Carter, R., Goddard, A., Reah, D., Sanger, K. & Bowring, M. (1997 second edition 2001) Working with Texts: a core book for language analysis. London: Routledge.
- Reah, D. (1998) The Language of Newspapers. London: Routledge.
- Grundy, P. (1990) Newspapers. Oxford: OUP.
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