COD 2018 - S620

Tennessee Williams: Sweet Bird of Youth (AS level 2018-2020)

AS level Literature teachers and Literature teachers in general

1 sessions, start: 30-May

Course detail

Year: 2018
Level: Secondary
Language: English
Status: Postponed
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 30 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.
AS level Literature teachers and Literature teachers in general
- To present the context of production and its marks in the text.

- To provide AS literature teachers with useful tools for the analysis of a play.

- To discuss possible ways of facilitating students' reading.

- To reflect upon the significance of Williams’s play in reference to other plays.

- To share ways of approaching the text in class with engaging activities.
• Reality versus Fantasy

• Violence and its dramatic use

• Use of myth in the play and the significance of names

• The American dream takes a “Chance”

• Politics and historical context in the play

• Aging and Sex in Williams’s plays
- Presentation and discussion of the novel, the context of production and its themes.

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

- Discussion of possible ways to enhance students’ analysis and production for AS level Literature examinations; including close reading techniques, thinking routines and games among others.
- A/AS syllabus and material available on www.cie.org.uk

- Dewi, Novita. The Quest for Freedom in Tennessee Williams’ The Rose Tattoo and Sweet Bird of Youth. Phenomena: Journal of Language and Literature, 16 (1). (2016) pp. 10-19. ISSN 1410-5691

- Dutta, Suchismita. Exploring Violence and Terror in Tennessee Williams’s Plays: Summer and Smoke, Sweet Bird of Youth and A Streetcar Named Desire. The Indian Review of World Literature in English, Vol. 13 No. 1 January 2017. ISSN: 0974-097X

- Hays, Peter L. Tennessee Williams' Use of Myth in "Sweet Bird of Youth". Educational Theatre Journal Vol. 18, No. 3, Special American Theatre Issue (Oct., 1966), pp. 255-258. The Johns Hopkins University Press.

- Tejaswani, Kadavakollu. The Flight: Depiction of the American Dream in Tennessee Williams’ Sweet Bird of Youth. IOSR Journal Of Humanities And Social Science, Volume 8, Issue 6 (Mar. - Apr. 2013), PP 56-59 e-ISSN: 2279-0837

- Williams, Tennessee. Sweet Bird of Youth. Penguin Plays. Middlesex, England, 1981.
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