COD 2019 - S649

"Twelfth Night": A cross-gender reading with amazing state of the art issues

Literature lovers & A/AS Literature teachers

1 sessions, start: 04-Apr

Course detail

Year: 2019
Level: Secondary
Language: English
Status: Postponed
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Ms. Flavia Daniela Pittella
Print course
ESSARP Schools
Free of charge
Exams Schools
ARS 800.00
Non affiliate
ARS 800.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 04 April 2019 05:30 pm 08:30 pm

Facilitator/s

Flavia Daniela Pittella

Ms. Flavia Pittella graduated from the University of La Plata as a Teacher of English Language and Literature. She is also Lic. in Ciencias Sociales, FLACSO, with special mention in Reading, Writing and Education. She has participated in international academic conferences and has published articles in different magazines. She holds several Postgraduate courses in literature and language teaching. For the past 20 years, she has taught ESL classrooms and ESL examinations for the IGCSE/AS Language and Literature. She has been a Reading group facilitator for over nine years. She is a cultural journalist at Radio Mitre and several other media. She has published "40 libros que adoro y no podes dejar de leer". Planeta, 2014. She writes regularly for Infobae Cultura. She is the director of “El tercer lugar: espacio cultural”.
Literature lovers & A/AS Literature teachers
It is the objective of this course to help students untangle the many layers of meanings that this play proposes in order that they may be able to successfully answer the questions presented in the AS/A levels exams as well as enjoy this very witty play. Being a classic, this play presents several issues which are very much in discussion today: gender, sexuality, androgyny, etc. together with issues related to power, peer pressure, social expectations and many other interesting themes to be discussed with students.
cross gender identity and how it works at language level
word play and song
social class and language
pretence and make belief
workshop
Shakespeare, William, Twelfth Night
Bloom, Harold. Shakespeare and the Invention of the Human. New York: Riverhead Books, 1998.
Schiffer, James (ed.) Twelfth Night, New Critical Essays New York, Routledge, 1988
Doblas, Maria. “Gender Ambiguity and Desire in Twelfth Night.” Academia.edu. https://www.academia.edu/2424876/Gender_Ambiguity_and_Desire_in_Twelfth_Night.
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