COD 2020 - D278
Webinar - IGCSE Literature: "Space, place and subjectivity" in Stories of Ourselves: The University of Cambridge International Examinations Anthology of Short Stories in English (set readings for IGCSE 2020 /21)
IGCSE Literature and Language teachers interested in working with both canonical and non-canonical texts from a literary linguistic perspective
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Ficha del curso
Ciclo: 2020
Nivel: A Distancia
Idioma: Inglés
Estado: Pospuesto
Lugar: A Distancia
Capacitador/es: Ms. Florencia Perduca MA
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Sesiones
Sesiones | Fechas | Inicia | Termina |
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1 | 05 Agosto 2020 | 05:30 pm | 07:30 pm |
2 | 07 Agosto 2020 | 05:30 pm | 07:30 pm |
3 | 12 Agosto 2020 | 05:30 pm | 07:30 pm |
4 | 19 Agosto 2020 | 05:30 pm | 07:30 pm |
5 | 21 Agosto 2020 | 05:30 pm | 07:30 pm |
Capacitador/es
Florencia Perduca
IGCSE Literature and Language teachers interested in working with both canonical and non-canonical texts from a literary linguistic perspective
- Promote a context-based approach to the reading of texts which lend themselves to exploring Literatures in Englishes.
- To To look for and build strategies to raise teachers and students’ awareness of specific cultures and their worlds of meaning.
- To To look for and build strategies to raise teachers and students’ awareness of specific cultures and their worlds of meaning.
Contents: Set readings from the Anthology Stories of Ourselves for IGCSE 2020 & 2021.
• Session 1: “Uncanny creatures” (5/8)
-Sylvia Townsend Warner’s ‘The Phoenix’
-Saki’s ‘Sredni Vashtar’
- Patricia Highsmith’s ‘Ming’s Biggest Prey’
• Session 1: “Fathers and Sons” (7/8)
-V S Pritchett’s ‘The Fly in the Ointment’
-Raymond Carver’s ‘Elephant’
• Session 2: “Eerie apparitions” (12/8)
-John Wyndham’s ‘Meteor’
-Bessie Head’s ‘The Village Saint’
• Session 4: “Extraordinary villages” (19/8)
-R K Narayan’s ‘A Horse and Two Goats’
- Annie Proulx’s ‘The Contest’
• Session 5: “Contested spaces” (21/8)
- V S Naipaul, ‘The Enemy’
-R K Narayan’s ‘A Horse and Two Goats’
- 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.
• Session 1: “Uncanny creatures” (5/8)
-Sylvia Townsend Warner’s ‘The Phoenix’
-Saki’s ‘Sredni Vashtar’
- Patricia Highsmith’s ‘Ming’s Biggest Prey’
• Session 1: “Fathers and Sons” (7/8)
-V S Pritchett’s ‘The Fly in the Ointment’
-Raymond Carver’s ‘Elephant’
• Session 2: “Eerie apparitions” (12/8)
-John Wyndham’s ‘Meteor’
-Bessie Head’s ‘The Village Saint’
• Session 4: “Extraordinary villages” (19/8)
-R K Narayan’s ‘A Horse and Two Goats’
- Annie Proulx’s ‘The Contest’
• Session 5: “Contested spaces” (21/8)
- V S Naipaul, ‘The Enemy’
-R K Narayan’s ‘A Horse and Two Goats’
- 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.
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.
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.