COD 2008 - S289

To Kill a Mockingbird: the film and the novel (IGCSE 2008)

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

2 sessions, start: 14-Aug

Course detail

Year: 2008
Level: Secondary
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Eugenio López Arriazu PhD
Print course
ESSARP Schools
ARS
Exams Schools
ARS
Non affiliate
ARS 90.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 14 August 2008 05:30 pm 08:30 pm
2 28 August 2008 05:30 pm 08:30 pm

Facilitator/s

Eugenio López Arriazu

Eugenio is a Ph. D. in Literature from UBA. He graduated from I. S. P. Joaquín V. González as a teacher of English as a Foreign Language, and from the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UBA, as Licenciado en Letras and Profesor de Lengua y Literatura. He currently teaches American Literature and Slavic Literatures at the UBA. He has taught Introduction to Literature, American Literature, and English Literature I and II at several Teacher Training and Translator Training Institutions, as well as Literatures in English and Literary Theory at the Diplomatura Superior en Cs. del Lenguaje, I.S.P.J.V. González.
IGCSE Literature teachers; teachers/schools who wish to introduce IGCSE English.
- To provide IGCSE literature teachers with useful tools for the analysis of drama. - To provide them with strategies to facilitate students' access to those texts. - To enhance critical thinking in both teachers and students.
To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel told by a child who learns about the complex world that surrounds her. Among other things, this girl will learn about social roles and prejudices concerning women and black people. In the process, her imagination, which colours the world Gothic, will give place to a more mature apprehension of reality. But To Kill a Mockingbird is also a film, based on the novel, whose inevitable process of selection made up of emphases and omissions interprets the novel in a certain manner. This seminar is designed to provide teachers with the historical and cultural background to the novel, analyse the text and encourage debate and interpretations. In order to do so, some scenes of the 1962 film version (starred by Gregory Peck) will be analysed so that readers can focus on differences as a way of building up their own interpretation of the novel.
Presentation of an integrated approach to the text covering both a historical and a literary background, as well as literary analysis and pedagogical considerations through debates, pair and group work, and video activities.
- Bobker, L. (1997) Elements of Film. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace Jovannovich. - Botting, F. (1996) Gothic. London: Routledge. - Castro G. (1990) American Feminism. A Contemporary History. New York: New York University Press. - Fuchs, L. H. (1990) The American Kaleidoscope. Race, Ethnicity, and the Civil Culture. Wesleyan University Press. - Gibert, S. M and Gubar, S. (1984) The Madwoman in the Attic. New Haven: Yale University Press. - Rothenberg, P. S. (1992) Race, Class & Gender in the United States. St. Martin's Press.
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