COD 2015 - S532

“A Man for All Seasons” by Robert Bolt (AS 2015-2018)

AS Literature teachers

1 sessions, start: 14-May

Course detail

Year: 2015
Level: Secondary
Language: English
Status: Postponed
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Mr. Leonardo Andrés Pantaleo
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ARS 200.00

Sessions


Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 14 May 2015 05:30 pm 08:30 pm

Facilitator/s

Leonardo Andrés Pantaleo

Leonardo graduated from the University of La Plata as a Teacher of English Language and Literature. He is doing his MA degree in Literary Studies at UBA. He has worked as a Teaching Assistant in Contemporary English Literature for two years and one in English Culture and Civilization at UNLP. He has participated in several academic conferences. For the past fifteen years, he has taught ESL and FLE classes for IGCSE and AS/A English Language and Literature in English at Patris Bilingual School, City Bell, and he has prepared IB candidates at St. George's, Quilmes and at Southern International School. For the past three years, he has developed digital material for an online educational platform.
AS Literature teachers
- To explore ways of introducing the context of production

- To provide AS literature teachers with useful tools for the analysis of a text as a twentieth century reinterpretation of and fiction based on historical events.

- To discuss possible ways of facilitating students' reading of and interacting with other texts.

- To reflect upon the significance of the text in the 1950s and of the images of Henry VIII, More and Cromwell.
- The Common Man in USA in 1950s

- Historical fiction: purposes and implications of dealing with history in fiction

- Religious imagery and its significance in the play

- Fiction being created at the time of the reading

- Life in Tudor Times to provide a historical dimension to students

- The play as a tragedy

- The individual and the society in conflict: morals and mores

- The play and its film adaptation in 1966
- Presentation and discussion of how to deal with the novel's issues.

- Participants will be presented with material to arouse students' interest and to facilitate their understanding of the novel.

- Discussion of possible ways to enhance students’ production for AS Literature examinations.
- AS syllabus and material available on www.cie.org.uk

- Bolt, Robert, A Man for All Seasons. London, Bloomsbury, 2006.

- Casey, Joe, Ethics in A Man for All Seasons. Utah Valley University

- Lee, Randy, Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons and the Art of Discerning integrity. Widener Journal of Public Law.

- Móstoles, Currás. Traducción de elementos culturales en A Man for All Seasons. Universitat Politècnica de València.
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