COD 2017 - S581

Brian Friel Philadelphia, Here I Come!: Troubled Irish Identities (AS 2017-2019)

AS/A Literature teachers

1 sessions, start: 26-Apr

Course detail

Year: 2017
Level: Secondary
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Mr. Leonardo Andrés Pantaleo
Print course
ESSARP Schools
Free of charge
Exams Schools
ARS 400.00
Non affiliate
ARS 400.00

Sessions


Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 26 April 2017 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/A Literature teachers
- To present the context of production and its marks in the text

- To provide A/AS literature teachers with useful tools for the analysis of the text

- To discuss possible ways of facilitating students' reading

- To share ways of approaching the text in class with engaging activities
• Historical context before The Troubles: Catholic fiction in Protestant Northern Ireland
• The tradition of leaving and the tradition of staying
• Private and Public: Id and Superego
• Reception of the play
• Modernization of Ireland
• Post-War Fragmented Identity
• Dysfunctional family relations and the problem of building a shared past in Ireland
- Presentation and discussion of the play, the context of production and its themes.

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

- Discussion of possible ways to enhance students’ production for A/AS Literature examinations.
- A/AS syllabus and material available on www.cie.org.uk
- Berns, Ute / Wallace, Clare / Wald. ‘Gar O’Donnell and the Philadelphia’: Traditional Song and ‘The Irish Showband’ in Brian Friel’s Philadelphia, Here I Come! Journal of Contemporary Drama in English, Volume 1, Issue 2 (Nov 2013)
- Friel, Brien. Philadelphia, Here I Come! Faber and Faber Ltd, London, 2013.
- Harris, Peter. Universal or Provincial? Early reception of Brian Friel’s Philadelphia, Here I Come! Universidade Estadual Paulista, São José do Rio Preto, Ilha do Desterro, v. 58, p. 23-51, 2010.
- Özmen, Özlem. The Question of a Stable Identity in Brian Friel’s Post-War Play: Philadelphia Here I Come. Hacettepe University, Turkey, 2013. The International Academic Forum, www.iafor.org
- Singel, Leslie Anne. Celtic subtleties : Brian Friel's appropriation of the O'Donnell clan. University of Louisville, 1984. ThinkIR: The University of Louisville's Institutional Repository; Electronic Theses and Dissertations.
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