COD 2019 - S662

Revisiting the Past's Future: Nineteen Eighty-four (IGCSE 2020-2021)

IGCSE level Literature teachers and Literature teachers in general

1 sessions, start: 13-Aug

Course detail

Year: 2019
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 800.00
Non affiliate
ARS 800.00

Sessions


Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 13 August 2019 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 level Literature teachers and Literature teachers in general
- To present the context of production and its marks in the text.

- To provide IGCSE literature teachers with useful tools for the analysis of the novel.

- To discuss possible ways of facilitating students' reading.

- To share ways of approaching the text in class with engaging activities.
• Totalitarianism in a dystopian science fiction: the uniqueness of a common trope

• Socialism under attack: what Orwell said he didn't mean

• Winston Smith’s diary: issues of language and power

• Individuals, masses and autonomy

• Technology and privacy
- Presentation and discussion of the novel, its context of production and its themes.

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

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

- Feder, Lillian. Selfhood, Language, and Reality: George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four". The Georgia Review. Vol. 37, No. 2 (Summer 1983), pp. 392-409

- Hole, Roar. Nineteen Eighty-Four’s Dystopian Vision. Power and the Individual. Master Thesis in English. Agder University College - 2007

- Jacobs, Naomi. Dissent, Assent, and the Body in Nineteen Eighty-Four. Utopian Studies
Vol. 18, No. 1 (2007), pp. 3-20.

- Orwell, George, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Penguin Books, London, 1987

- Pittock, Malcom. The Hell of Nineteen Eighty–Four. Essays in Criticism, Volume XLVII, Issue 2, April 1997, Pages 143–164

- Posner, Richard A, “Orwell versus Huxley: Economics, Technology, Privacy, and Satire”, in
On Nineteen Eighty-Four, (Ed) Abbot Gleason, Princeton University Press, Princeton,
2005

- Resch, Robert Paul, “Utopia, Dystopia, and the Middle Class in George Orwell’s Nineteen
Eighty-Four,” Boundary 2 24:1, Duke University Press, 1997
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