COD 2008 - S243

William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar Revisited

High School teachers (especially those training students for AS literature).

1 sessions, start: 11-Jun

Course detail

Year: 2008
Level: Secondary
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Claudia Ferradas PhD
Print course
ESSARP Schools
ARS
Exams Schools
ARS
Non affiliate
ARS 45.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 11 June 2008 05:30 pm 08:30 pm

Facilitator/s

Claudia Ferradas

Dr. Claudia Ferradas is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she got her first degree as a teacher of English at the Instituto de Enseñanza Superior en Lenguas Vivas “Juan Ramón Fernández”. She holds an MA in Education and Professional Development from the University of East Anglia and a PhD in English Studies from the University of Nottingham, UK. She is an experienced presenter and ELT author who travels the world as a teacher educator. She often works as a consultant for the British Council and Trinity College London. She is also a presenter for Oxford University Press and is an Oxford Teachers’ Academy Trainer.
In Argentina, she has taught language and literature at the Instituto de Enseñanza Superior en Lenguas Vivas “Juan Ramón Fernández”, Buenos Aires, where she was also “Regente del nivel superior”. She teaches on the MA programme in Literatures in English at the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza. She coordinates the literature and cultural programmes at ESSARP.
In the UK, Claudia has been a Visiting Fellow and research supervisor at the School of Languages, Leeds Metropolitan University, and is now a member of the NILE (Norwich Institute for Language Education) Advisory Board and the Extensive Reading Foundation committee.
Claudia has co-chaired the Oxford Conference on the Teaching of Literature on five occasions and has also worked as Project Manager for the Penguin Active Readers Teacher Support Programme. She has also taught on the MA programme in TEFL at the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Spain.
She is a member of the editorial committee of several journals: AJAL (Argentine Journal of Applied Linguistics); Revista Interdisciplinar de Formación Docente Kimün (Instituto de Formación Docente Continua, San Luis, Argentina); Conexión, Revista de Investigaciones y Propuestas Educativas (Instituto de Educación Superior N° 28 “Olga Cossettini”, Rosario, Argentina) and CLELE Journal (Children’s Literature in English Language Education).
High School teachers (especially those training students for AS literature).
To get teachers to: - Evaluate the obstacles that make it difficult to approach this dramatic text with adolescents whose native tongue is not English, as well as the points that make it a good choice. - Discuss the relevance of the play today. - Discuss approaches and develop techniques to approach the play in the high school classroom, exploring cross-curricular activities and gaps of indeterminacy. - Explore tasks which can help students who are being trained for the AS examination. - Relate the play intertextually to other discourse genres and media.
- Shakespeare's dramatic handling of historical raw material. - Character and theme. - The role of ritual in the play. - Different theoretical points of entry (female roles in a men’s world, exploring the silences in the text, the power of discourse over the mass, rationalisation of motives, etc.). - Exploiting the dramatic text in class. - A look into performance through film.
Workshop: participants will discuss different entry points that may motivate students to read on, analyse different literary aspects of the play, analyse film versions of the play and discuss their usefulness in the classroom, and design AS-type tasks in groups.
- Bloom, H. (1998). Shakespeare - The Invention of the Human. New York: Riverhead Books: Chapter 9: "Julius Caesar", pp. 104 - 118. - Dollimore, J & Sinfield, A. (eds) (1985). Political Shakespeare. New Essays in Cultural Materialism. Manchester: Manchester University Press. - Eagleton, T. (1986) William Shakespeare. Oxford: Blackwell. Rereading Literature Series. - Elsom, J. (ed.) (1989) Is Shakespeare Still our Contemporary? London & N.Y.: Routledge. - Goddard, H. C. (1960) The Meaning of Shakespeare. Vol. 1. Chicago: Phoenix: chapter XXII: "Julius Caesar", pp.307 - 330. - Gibson, R. (1998) Teaching Shakespeare. Cambridge: C. U. P.: Cambridge School Shakespeare. - Legatt, A. (1988) Shakespeare's Political Drama. London and New York: Routledge: Chapter 6: "Julius Caesar", pp. 139 - 160. - Spencer, T. (1961) Shakespeare and the Nature of Man. London: Macmillan. - Wilson Knight, C. (1979) The Imperial Theme. London: Methuen: Chapter III: "The Eroticism of Julius Caesar", pp. 63 – 95.
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