COD 2008 - S239

Golding's Lord of the Flies: Proving Rousseau wrong? (IGCSE 2008/09)

IGCSE Literature teachers; teachers/schools who wish to introduce IGCSE English Literature in their curriculum.

1 sessions, start: 04-Jul

Course detail

Year: 2008
Level: Secondary
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Ms. Paula D'Alessandro
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ESSARP Schools
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Non affiliate
ARS 45.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 04 July 2008 05:30 pm 08:30 pm

Facilitator/s

Paula D'Alessandro

She is a tenured English Literature lecturer at I.E.S. Lenguas Vivas "Juan Ramon Fernandez" and "Licenciada en Inglés" from Universidad Nacional del Litoral. She has been teaching Language and Literature at secondary school level for over twenty years. At present, she is a Language and Literature coordinator at Santa María school in Pilar, as well as an IGCSE and AS levels Language and Literature teacher at Polimodal level in the same school.
IGCSE Literature teachers; teachers/schools who wish to introduce IGCSE English Literature in their curriculum.
- To provide Literature teachers with useful tools for the analysis of literary texts. - To make it possible for teachers to understand the historical, literary and social background to the text, both at the moment of its composition and the moment of its setting in time. - To provide them with strategies to facilitate students' access to those texts through textual intervention. - To enhance critical thinking in both teachers and students.
Theoretical background: Neoclassical vs. Romantic attitudes towards society. Rousseau's myth of the "Noble Savage". Postmodernism and the demystification of the Romantic ideal of the Noble Savage. The story: Setting: the importance of isolation. Plot: analysis of narrative strategies. Characters: presentation techniques and motivation analysis. Themes, motifs and symbols. Use of allegory. Detailed analysis of fragments.
Literary analysis and pedagogical considerations of the story through lecturing, debates, pair work and group work activities.
- Cox, C. (1960): "Lord of the Flies" in Critical Quarterly pages 116 and 117. - Daiches, D. (ed.) (1970) Studies in English Literature: Lord of the Flies by Whitley, J. London: Edward Arnold Publishers Ltd. - Kermode, F. (1962): Puzzles and Epiphanies. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. - Niemeyer, C. (1961): "The Coral Island Revisited" in College English volume XX. - Pope, R. (1995): Textual Intervention. New York: Routledge.
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