COD 2018 - S612

A View from the Bridge: Immigration, Love and Alienation (IGCSE 2018-2019)

IGCSE Literature school teachers

1 sessions, start: 16-May

Course detail

Year: 2018
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 500.00
Non affiliate
ARS 500.00

Sessions


Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 16 May 2018 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.
IGCSE Literature school teachers
- To introduce the context of production.

- To provide IGCSE literature teachers with useful tools for the analysis of a dramatic text.

- To discuss possible ways of facilitating students' reading and interpretations of the text.

- To reflect upon the importance of historic and cultural awareness.
- Immigration and McCarthyism

- Naming Names and Alienation

- Love: incest and homosexuality in the play

- Portrayal of working classes

- Intertextuality: Elia Kazan

- Revisiting elements of Greek tragedy
- Presentation and discussion of how to deal with the play'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 IGCSE Literature examinations.
- IGCSE syllabus and material available on www.cie.org.uk

- Blumberg, Paul, Sociology and Social Literature: Work Alienation in the Plays of Arthur Miller. American Quarterly, Vol. 21, No. 2, 1969.

- Costello, Donald P., A View from the Bridge and Beyond. Modern Drama, Volume 36, Number 3, 1993.

- De Lucia, Francesca, “An Abrupt Impression of Familiarity”: Ethnic Projection in Arthur Miller’s Work. Polish Journal of American Studies, vol. 6, 2012.

-Gilliard, Frederick W., Dignity in Arthur Miller’s drama. UMI Dissertation Publishing, Ann Arbor, 2012.

- Hooti, Noorbakhsh and Zohdi, Morteza, Nature of Self in Arthur Miller’s “A View from the Bridge”. Cross-Cultural Communication, Vol. 7, No. 3, 2011.

- Miller, Arthur, A View from the Bridge. Penguin Classics, London, 2000.

- Rangachar, Sushmita, The Concept of Self in Society in the Plays of Arthur Miller. Dissertation for Master of Philosophy at The North Eastern Hill University, 1991.
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