COD 2019 - S648
AS Literature: Stories of Ourselves (2019/20/21)
AS Literature and Language teachers interested in working with both canonical and non-canonical texts from a literary linguistic perspective
4
sessions, start: 08-Aug
The course chosen does not allow any new enrolment
Course detail
Year: 2019
Level: Secondary
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Ms. Florencia Perduca MA
ESSARP Schools
Free of charge
Free of charge
Exams Schools
ARS 3200.00
ARS 3200.00
Non affiliate
ARS 3200.00
ARS 3200.00
Sessions
| Sessions | Dates | Start | Finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 08 August 2019 | 05:30 pm | 08:30 pm |
| 2 | 22 August 2019 | 05:30 pm | 08:30 pm |
| 3 | 05 September 2019 | 05:30 pm | 08:30 pm |
| 4 | 26 September 2019 | 05:30 pm | 08:30 pm |
Facilitator/s
Florencia Perduca
AS Literature and Language teachers interested in working with both canonical and non-canonical texts from a literary linguistic perspective
- To promote a context-based approach to the reading of texts which lend themselves to exploring Literatures in Englishes.
- To look for and build strategies to raise teachers and students’ awareness of specific cultures and their worlds of meaning.
- To prepare materials that meet AS Literature core objectives.
- To look for and build strategies to raise teachers and students’ awareness of specific cultures and their worlds of meaning.
- To prepare materials that meet AS Literature core objectives.
Set readings from the Anthology Stories of Ourselves for AS 2019.
Raymond Carver’s “Elephant”
Borden Deal’s “The Taste of Watermelon”
Arthur Conan Doyle’s “How it Happened”
Graham Greene’s “The Destructors”
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Hollow of the Three Hills”
Ted Hughes’s “The Rain Horse”
V S Pritchett’s “The Fly in The Ointment”
Ahdaf Soueif’s “Sandpiper”
H G Wells’s “The Door in the Wall”
Oscar Wilde’s “The Happy Prince”
P G Wodehouse’s “The Custody of the Pumpkin”
Virginia Woolf’s “The Lady in the Looking Glass: A Reflection”
Central themes (the present and the past; displacement; individual vs. society) and thematic threads (the motif of ‘home’ as resignifiying individual/collective identity) cutting all stories across.
Narrative structure of the short stories.
Symbols and motifs.
Cultural gaps.
Raymond Carver’s “Elephant”
Borden Deal’s “The Taste of Watermelon”
Arthur Conan Doyle’s “How it Happened”
Graham Greene’s “The Destructors”
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Hollow of the Three Hills”
Ted Hughes’s “The Rain Horse”
V S Pritchett’s “The Fly in The Ointment”
Ahdaf Soueif’s “Sandpiper”
H G Wells’s “The Door in the Wall”
Oscar Wilde’s “The Happy Prince”
P G Wodehouse’s “The Custody of the Pumpkin”
Virginia Woolf’s “The Lady in the Looking Glass: A Reflection”
Central themes (the present and the past; displacement; individual vs. society) and thematic threads (the motif of ‘home’ as resignifiying individual/collective identity) cutting all stories across.
Narrative structure of the short stories.
Symbols and motifs.
Cultural gaps.
1) Presentation and discussion of how to approach texts from a literary linguistic perspective.
2) Each story’s/writer’s background and culture
3) Signs of identity in a text written in English
4) Guided group reflection and exchange of ideas on the main themes and issues raised by the text.
5) Reading of key extracts in the short stories and reflection on how they mean.
6) Systematisation of a literary lingustic approach to meet AS Literature requirements.
2) Each story’s/writer’s background and culture
3) Signs of identity in a text written in English
4) Guided group reflection and exchange of ideas on the main themes and issues raised by the text.
5) Reading of key extracts in the short stories and reflection on how they mean.
6) Systematisation of a literary lingustic approach to meet AS Literature requirements.
1) ASHCROFT, GRIFFITHS, TIFFIN (1989) The Empire Writes Back, London: Routledge.
2) ASHCROFT, GRIFFITHS, TIFFIN (1995) The Post- Colonial Reader, London: Routledge.
3) BOEHMER, E. (1995) Colonial and Post-Colonial Literature, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
4) GRADDOL, D. (1997) The Future of English?, London: The British Council.
5) JENKINS, C (ed.) (2009) Stories of Ourselves: The University of Cambridge International Examinations Anthology of Short Stories in English, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2) ASHCROFT, GRIFFITHS, TIFFIN (1995) The Post- Colonial Reader, London: Routledge.
3) BOEHMER, E. (1995) Colonial and Post-Colonial Literature, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
4) GRADDOL, D. (1997) The Future of English?, London: The British Council.
5) JENKINS, C (ed.) (2009) Stories of Ourselves: The University of Cambridge International Examinations Anthology of Short Stories in English, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.