COD 2010 - S342

A View from the Bridge: Trespassing borders (AS 2010)

Teachers training students for A /AS (2010).

1 sessions, start: 22-May

Course detail

Year: 2010
Level: Secondary
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Ms. Mónica Beatriz Cuello
Print course
ESSARP Schools
ARS
Exams Schools
ARS
Non affiliate
ARS 65.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 22 May 2010 09:00 am 12:00 pm

Facilitator/s

Mónica Beatriz Cuello

Mónica Cuello, graduate teacher of English from ISP “Pbro. Dr. A. M. Saenz”, Licenciada en Inglés from Universidad Nacional del Litoral, belongs to the team of Literature lecturers at the English Speaking Scholastic Association of the River Plate Centre. She has been a lecturer of Literatura Inglesa II at Universidad Nacional del Litoral and has taught IGCSE and IB literature at secondary schools. At present she teaches Language and Written Expression I and Language and Culture IV at ISP Saenz. She is also a tutor of English Language III and IV and Literatura de los Países de Habla Inglesa I and II at the Universidad Nacional de Lanús.
Teachers training students for A /AS (2010).
• To Compare and contrast the life described in Italy and the promise of the American Dream.
• To understand the context of mass immigration of Italians to New York in the 1950s.
• To examine the impact of McCarthyism in shaping Miller's presentation of betrayal.
• To gain a historical perspective of the post-war period in America.
This workshop explores the characteristics of the play focusing on the context of production (McCarthyism), the setting (mass immigration of Italians in the 1950s, life in Italy vs. life in America) and the themes of masculinity, homosexuality, justice, betrayal and tragedy.
The facilitator will briefly present information about the background of the play, eliciting information from the participants. Then, she will focus on the themes, opening up a debate with the participants discussing the idea of trespassing borders. She will encourage them to establish intertextual relations with different literary or film texts. For this reason, she will show scenes from episodes of the mini-series Vientos de Agua.
Handouts will be provided
- Miller, A.(1955), A View from the Bridge. London: Penguin Books.
- Nevins & Commager (1986), A Pocket History of The United States. New York: Washington Square Press.
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