COD 2012 - S417

The Winter's tale: A hands-on approach for the AS class

Literature teachers interested in approaching Shakespeare for Cambridge A/S or A level exams; Literature teachers already teaching Shakespeare at this level. Headteachers, heads of department or co-ordinators responsible for articulating Literature courses and guiding teachers and assessing students' progress.

1 sessions, start: 11-May

Course detail

Year: 2012
Level: Secondary
Language: English
Status: Postponed
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Ms. Cecilia Ferreiro, Ms. Florencia Agrasar
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ARS 100.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 11 May 2012 05:30 pm 08:30 pm

Facilitator/s

Cecilia Ferreiro

Graduate teacher from I.N.E.S. en Lenguas Vivas "J. R. Fernández". Post-graduate Certificate in Methodology. Language and Literature teacher at St. Hilda's College. Head of primary English at Colegio San Antonio. Freelance Educational Consultant. ESSARP Course facilitator since 1997. Has offered lectures in the provinces and co-ordinated courses and Teachers' Development Programmes in several schools in Greater Buenos Aires. Educational researcher (CIADER).

Florencia Agrasar

Graduate teacher from Universidad Catolica Argentina. Language and Literature Teacher, Head of Secondary at St.Hilda's College. Teacher trainer and educator. Educational consultant. Educational researcher (CIADER).
Literature teachers interested in approaching Shakespeare for Cambridge A/S or A level exams; Literature teachers already teaching Shakespeare at this level. Headteachers, heads of department or co-ordinators responsible for articulating Literature courses and guiding teachers and assessing students' progress.
- To encourage Literature teachers to consider Shakespeare as a valid option for Paper 4, A/S English literature.

- To provide strategies and ideas to those teachers already doing Shakespeare in the classroom.

- To explore the The Winter's Tale as a rich text for analysis.
- Why Shakespeare? Exploring the challenges and joys of teaching Shakespeare to teenagers.

- The Winter’s Tale for A/S level: working towards helping students get ready to face the challenges and meet the demands posed by the aims and objectives of the exam.

- Overview of the play: context of production, genre, sources, plot.

- Choice portions of the play: close analysis.

- How to help students learn how to write a literary essay in response to text-based questions or open, full-text questions.

- Highlights: - Conventions of tragedy and conventions of comedy: how they work within the play.
- The language of madness vs. the language of sanity/honour.
- Suspension of disbelief in The Winter's Tale.
- Turning point and climax.
- Women in The Winter's Tale.
- Main issues and concerns in the light of the As level exam.
- Multimedia presentation by co-ordinators.
- Open forum.
- Workshop.
- Bloom, H. The Invention of the Human, New York 1998.

- Bradley, A C. Shakespearean Tragedy, London: Macmillan 1904 reprinted London Penguin Books 1991.

- Charlton, H.B. Shakespearian Comedy University Paperbacks London: Methuen 1938, reprinted 1966.

- Gibson, R. Teaching Shakespeare: A Handbook for Teachers, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.


- Shakespeare, W. The Winter's Tale. London: The Arden Shakespeare, J.H.P. Pafford ed., 1963.

- Shakespeare, W. The Winter's Tale. Oxford: Heinemann, 1996.

- Shakespeare, W. The Winter's Tale. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.


Video materials: The Winter's Tale in YOU TUBE – The Royal Shakespeare Company / others. (Downloaded: December 2011)
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