COD 2010 - S261
An Integrated Approach to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (IGCSE 2010)
IGCSE Literature teachers; teachers/schools who wish to introduce IGCSE English Literature in their curriculum.
2
sessions, start: 14-May
The course chosen does not allow any new enrolment
Course detail
Year: 2010
Level: Secondary
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Ms. Paula D'Alessandro
ESSARP Schools
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ARS
Exams Schools
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Non affiliate
ARS 130.00
ARS 130.00
Sessions
| Sessions | Dates | Start | Finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 14 May 2010 | 05:30 pm | 08:30 pm |
| 2 | 11 June 2010 | 05:30 pm | 08:30 pm |
Facilitator/s
Paula D'Alessandro
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.
- 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.
Background: The shaping of a new society: The rise of the middle class. Aristocracy vs. Bourgeoisie. The new role of women in the 19th century. Augustan sense and sensibility. The arts and the social order. Women in life and literature. Jane Austen's place in English literature. The importance of the comedy of manners. The construction Jane Austen's novels.
Pride and Prejudice: Setting and plot. Style. Characterisation: The plight of the Jane Austen heroine. Heroes, caricatures and minor characters. The use of foils. Narrative strategies. The novel as bildungsroman. Suggestions for the classroom.
Pride and Prejudice: Setting and plot. Style. Characterisation: The plight of the Jane Austen heroine. Heroes, caricatures and minor characters. The use of foils. Narrative strategies. The novel as bildungsroman. Suggestions for the classroom.
Presentation of an integrated approach to the text covering a literary background as well as literary analysis and pedagogical considerations through presentations, debates, pair work and group work activities.
- Ford, B. (ed.) (1954) The Pelican Guide to English Literature: Volume 5: From Blake to Byron – Chapter 1: "The Social Setting". Middlesex: Penguin Books.
- Guillie, C. (1974) A Preface to Jane Austen. Hong Kong: Commonwealth Printing Press Ltd.
- Gooneratne, Y. (1970) Jane Austen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Hardy, B. (1985) Forms of Feeling in Victorian Fiction. Suffolk: Methuen & Co. Ltd.
- Pool, D. (1993) What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew. New York: Touchstone Books.
- Pope, R. (1995) Textual Intervention. New York: Routledge.
- Stone, L. (1979) The Family, Sex, and Marriage in England - 1500-1800. London: Penguin Books Ltd.
- Tanner, T. (1985) Jane Austen – Chapter 4: "Knowledge and Opinion: Pride and Prejudice". Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
- Weldon, F. (1993) Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen. New York: Carroll and Graf Publishers.
- Guillie, C. (1974) A Preface to Jane Austen. Hong Kong: Commonwealth Printing Press Ltd.
- Gooneratne, Y. (1970) Jane Austen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Hardy, B. (1985) Forms of Feeling in Victorian Fiction. Suffolk: Methuen & Co. Ltd.
- Pool, D. (1993) What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew. New York: Touchstone Books.
- Pope, R. (1995) Textual Intervention. New York: Routledge.
- Stone, L. (1979) The Family, Sex, and Marriage in England - 1500-1800. London: Penguin Books Ltd.
- Tanner, T. (1985) Jane Austen – Chapter 4: "Knowledge and Opinion: Pride and Prejudice". Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
- Weldon, F. (1993) Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen. New York: Carroll and Graf Publishers.