COD 2011 - S388

The Great Gatsby: the American Dream in the Jazz Age

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

2 sessions, start: 09-Aug

Course detail

Year: 2011
Level: Secondary
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Eugenio López Arriazu PhD
Print course
ESSARP Schools
ARS
Exams Schools
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Non affiliate
ARS 160.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 09 August 2011 05:30 pm 08:30 pm
2 23 August 2011 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 Literature in their curriculum.
- To provide IGCSE literature teachers with useful tools for the analysis of fictional texts.
- To provide them with strategies to facilitate students' access to those texts.
- To enhance critical thinking in both teachers and students.
The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald is considered by the critics as one of the best American novels. Set at the time of the Prohibition, it makes a gangster the true image of the American Dream. This seminar is aimed at exploring all the tensions present in this Dream-Gangster paradox. The analysis of the literary techniques used by the author will be crucial to the understanding of the social criticism levelled, since the latter is expressed through a fragmentary style and an unreliable narrator. Some contextual information regarding the origin of the American Dream from Franklin to Luther King will also be provided so as to better appreciate the specificity of the criticism.
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.
- Tanner, B. (2003) Fitzgerald's Odyssey: a reader's guide to the Gospels in The Great Gatsby. Lanham, MD: University Press of America.
- Gross, D. (1998) Understanding The Great Gatsby. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
- Bruccoli, M. (2005) Getting It Wrong: Resetting The Great Gatsby. Columbia, SC: s.n..
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