COD 2020 - S680
The identity question and homoeroticism in John Knowles’ A Separate Peace (Set text for IGCSE Literature 2020/2021)
IGCSE Literature teachers and Literature lovers seeking to revisit one of John Knowles' classics from an innovative perspective
1
sessions, start: 16-Apr
The course chosen does not allow any new enrolment
Course detail
Year: 2020
Level: Secondary
Language: English
Status: Postponed
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Ms. Julia Fernández Armendariz, Mrs. Maria Victoria Llera
ESSARP Schools
Free of charge
Free of charge
Exams Schools
ARS 1200.00
ARS 1200.00
Non affiliate
ARS 1200.00
ARS 1200.00
Sessions
Sessions | Dates | Start | Finish |
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1 | 16 April 2020 | 05:30 pm | 08:30 pm |
Facilitator/s
Julia Fernández Armendariz
Maria Victoria Llera
IGCSE Literature teachers and Literature lovers seeking to revisit one of John Knowles' classics from an innovative perspective
- To explore John Knowles’ A Separate Peace by considering the context of production and what characterization may be portraying about American society during the Second World War.
- To discuss main themes as well as rhetorical devices that further meaning in the literary work.
- To look into key passages through detailed readings to study how Knowles constructs semantic fields to build up tension and/or foreshadow events.
- To share teaching strategies regarding the approach to IGCSE component 3 essay or passage-based questions.
- To discuss main themes as well as rhetorical devices that further meaning in the literary work.
- To look into key passages through detailed readings to study how Knowles constructs semantic fields to build up tension and/or foreshadow events.
- To share teaching strategies regarding the approach to IGCSE component 3 essay or passage-based questions.
- Presentation of the historical and social context of the United Stated in the 1930/40s, considering how world events involving warfare inevitably affect and mirror human relationships.
- Introduction to the bildungsroman genre as well as Knowles’ choice of a historical novel to express the concerns of the time.
- Discussion of the main themes of identity, codependency, duplicity and hidden feelings by studying the bond between Phineas and Gene.
- Debate on the notion of homoeroticism and how it applies to the relationship between the main characters.
- Analysis of revealing extracts with a focus on how Knowles constructs meaning through language and key symbols.
- Introduction to the bildungsroman genre as well as Knowles’ choice of a historical novel to express the concerns of the time.
- Discussion of the main themes of identity, codependency, duplicity and hidden feelings by studying the bond between Phineas and Gene.
- Debate on the notion of homoeroticism and how it applies to the relationship between the main characters.
- Analysis of revealing extracts with a focus on how Knowles constructs meaning through language and key symbols.
- Presentation of the historical and social context abovementioned.
- Study of key extracts and strategies to approach a passage-based question.
- Discussion of the main themes, symbols and overall concerns of the literary work.
- A revision of possible general questions to shape students’ answers when attempting to address exam questions without an extract.
- Study of key extracts and strategies to approach a passage-based question.
- Discussion of the main themes, symbols and overall concerns of the literary work.
- A revision of possible general questions to shape students’ answers when attempting to address exam questions without an extract.
- Bell Bryant, Hallman. Understanding A Separate Peace: A casebook to issues, sources and historical documents. Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2002.
- Bloom, Harold (ed.) John Knowles’s A Separate Peace: Blooms Guides. New York: Infobase Publishing, 2008.
- Chevalier, Jean and Alain Gheerbrant. Dictionary of Symbols. London: Penguin Books, 1996.
- Knowles, John. A Separate Peace. New York: Scribner, 1959.
- Bloom, Harold (ed.) John Knowles’s A Separate Peace: Blooms Guides. New York: Infobase Publishing, 2008.
- Chevalier, Jean and Alain Gheerbrant. Dictionary of Symbols. London: Penguin Books, 1996.
- Knowles, John. A Separate Peace. New York: Scribner, 1959.