COD 2008 - S302

Shakespeare's King Richard III (Set text IGCSE Literature 2009 -2011)

Literature/Language Teachers at Secondary or Tertiary Level.

1 sessions, start: 30-Aug

Course detail

Year: 2008
Level: Secondary
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Ms. Verónica Storni Fricke
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Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 30 August 2008 09:00 am 12:00 pm

Facilitator/s

Verónica Storni Fricke

Verónica Storni Fricke is now doing her doctorate studies on feminist criticism of Shakespeare's plays at UBA, Filosofía y Letras. She is a graduate English teacher from IES en Lenguas Vivas, specialized in English Literature. Licenciada en Inglés from Universidad Nacional del Litoral. Tenured Lecturer in the Seminar "Shakespeare and Feminism" at IES en Lenguas Vivas. IB English teacher at Tarbut College and Instituto Ballester Schule.
Literature/Language Teachers at Secondary or Tertiary Level.
- To discuss why the text may be a good choice to train students for IGCSE Literature.
- To share knowledge about the context of production and about the setting in time, and discuss the need to teach this.
- To try to make the text accessible and enjoyable to our students.
- To explore some essay questions and activities to prepare students for the IGCSE.
- To discuss some criticism of the work.
- Analysis of genre, characters, form, themes, gender roles.
- The Tudor myth.
- The Elizabethan period.
- The War of the Roses.
- Textual analysis.
- Group discussion.
- Bloom, H. (1999) Shakespeare: the Invention of the Human. London. Fourth Estate.
- Burgess, A. (1972) Shakespeare. Penguin. Harmondsworth.
- Burgess, A. (1974) English Literature. Longman: London.
- Dusinberre, J. (1996) Shakespeare and the Nature of Women. Macmillan: London.
- Gibson, R. (1998) Teaching Shakespeare. Cambridge School Shakespeare. Cambridge: C. U. P.
- Kott, J. (1967) Shakespeare Our Contemporary. Methuen: London.
- Spencer, T. (1961) Shakespeare and the Nature of Man. Macmillan: New York.
- Taylor, M. (2001) Shakespeare Criticism in the Twentieth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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