COD 2006 - S241

Africanness in Things Fall Apart

IGCSE teachers currently working or willing to work with the novel and language and literature teachers interested in the ‘new literatures’.

3 sessions, start: 13-Sep

Course detail

Year: 2006
Level: Secondary
Language: English
Status: Postponed
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Ms. Florencia Perduca MA
Print course
ESSARP Schools
ARS
Exams Schools
ARS
Non affiliate
ARS 45.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 13 September 2006 05:30 pm 08:30 pm
2 27 September 2006 05:30 pm 08:30 pm
3 11 October 2006 05:30 pm 08:30 pm

Facilitator/s

Florencia Perduca

Florencia Perduca, Graduate Teacher of English and Literary Translator from I. E. S en Lenguas Vivas "J. R. Fernández", MA in Literary Linguistics (University of
Nottingham), is an ESSARP course coordinator specialised in Literatures in Englishes, Literary Linguistic Analysis and Postcolonial Theory. She teaches Literature in English at I.E.S. en Lenguas Vivas "Juan Ramón Fernandez", Cultural Studies at ENS en Lenguas Vivas "Sofía E. Broquen de Spangenberg", Postcolonial Literature at Licenciatura en Lengua Inglesa, Universidad Nacional del Litoral. She teaches IGCSE English Language and Literature. She is Head of Senior School at St. Catherine's Moorlands School, Sede Belgrano.
IGCSE teachers currently working or willing to work with the novel and language and literature teachers interested in the ‘new literatures’.
- Promote a context-based approach to African English Writing so as to delve into the world view of Chinua Achebe, drawing from cultural studies and various literary theories. - Look for and build strategies to raise teachers and students’ awareness of African - specific worlds of meaning, ensuring that interpretation emerges from the text.
First session: An introduction to African English Writing and the world view of Chinua Achebe. - Chinua Achebe and his political standpoint compared to Ngugi and other African writers. - Africanness. - Negritude. Second Session: Things fall Apart (Achebe). - A context-based reading of the novel. - Activities that suit IGCSE requirements. Third Session: Things fall Apart and theory in the classroom. - Reading Things Fall Apart from different theoretical perspectives. Methodology: - Presentation and discussion of theoretical frameworks. - Guided group reflection and exchange of ideas on how to approach African English texts. - Reading of key extracts in the novel and reflection on main themes and signs of Africanness. - Proposal for creative activities and writing tasks for AS classes. - Generation of further possible activities by the group in the light of the model proposed in the workshop.
- Ashcroft, Griffiths, Tiffin (1989) The Empire Writes Back, London: Routledge. - Ashcroft, Griffiths, Tiffin (1995) The Post- Colonial Reader, London: Routledge. - Boehmer, E. (1995) Colonial and Post-Colonial Literature, Oxford University Press. - Griffiths (2002) African Literatures in English. USA: Indiana University Press. - Killian, D. (2000) The Companion to African Literatures. USA: Indiana University Press.
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