COD 2023 - D479
Webinar - “Stories of Ourselves, Volume 2 (set readings for AS 2023)”
AS Literature and Language teachers interested in working with both canonical and non-canonical texts from a literary linguistic perspective
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Ciclo: 2023
Nivel: A Distancia
Idioma: Inglés
Estado: Terminado
Lugar: A Distancia
Capacitador/es: Ms. Florencia Perduca MA
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Sesiones
Sesiones | Fechas | Inicia | Termina |
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1 | 01 Junio 2023 | 05:30 pm | 07:30 pm |
2 | 08 Junio 2023 | 05:30 pm | 07:30 pm |
3 | 15 Junio 2023 | 05:30 pm | 07:30 pm |
4 | 22 Junio 2023 | 05:30 pm | 07:30 pm |
Capacitador/es
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 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 AS 2021, 2022 & 2023.
Stories of Ourselves: The Cambridge Assessment International Education Anthology of Stories in English,
Volume 2 (ISBN 9781108436199)
Paper 2, Section A Prose: Set Texts:
1. Ambrose Bierce’s “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”
2. Thomas Hardy’s “The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion”
3. Edith Wharton’s “The Lady’s Maid’s Bell”
4. Saki’s (Hector Hugh Munro) “Gabriel-Ernest”
5. Katherine Mansfield’s “The Doll’s House”
6. M R James’s “A Warning to the Curious”
7. Sherwood Anderson’s “Death in the Woods”
8. Ralph Ellison’s “The Black Ball”
9. Philip K Dick’s “Stability”
10. Marghanita Laski’s “The Tower”
11. Penelope Fitzgerald’s “The Axe”
12. Margaret Atwood’s “When It Happens”
13. Ovo Adagha’s “The Plantation”
14. Aminatta Forna’s “Haywards Heath”
15. Ken Liu’s “The Paper Menagerie”
Central themes (the present and the past; displacement; individual vs. society) and thematic threads (the motif of ‘home’ as signifying individual/collective identity) cutting all stories across.
Narrative structure of the short stories.
Symbols and motifs.
Cultural gaps.
Stories of Ourselves: The Cambridge Assessment International Education Anthology of Stories in English,
Volume 2 (ISBN 9781108436199)
Paper 2, Section A Prose: Set Texts:
1. Ambrose Bierce’s “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”
2. Thomas Hardy’s “The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion”
3. Edith Wharton’s “The Lady’s Maid’s Bell”
4. Saki’s (Hector Hugh Munro) “Gabriel-Ernest”
5. Katherine Mansfield’s “The Doll’s House”
6. M R James’s “A Warning to the Curious”
7. Sherwood Anderson’s “Death in the Woods”
8. Ralph Ellison’s “The Black Ball”
9. Philip K Dick’s “Stability”
10. Marghanita Laski’s “The Tower”
11. Penelope Fitzgerald’s “The Axe”
12. Margaret Atwood’s “When It Happens”
13. Ovo Adagha’s “The Plantation”
14. Aminatta Forna’s “Haywards Heath”
15. Ken Liu’s “The Paper Menagerie”
Central themes (the present and the past; displacement; individual vs. society) and thematic threads (the motif of ‘home’ as signifying 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.
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) CAMBRIDGE ASSESSMENT INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION (2020). Stories of Ourselves: The Cambridge Assessment International Education Anthology of Stories in English, Volume 2 (ISBN 9781108436199).
5) GRADDOL, D. (1997) The Future of English? London: The British Council.
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) CAMBRIDGE ASSESSMENT INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION (2020). Stories of Ourselves: The Cambridge Assessment International Education Anthology of Stories in English, Volume 2 (ISBN 9781108436199).
5) GRADDOL, D. (1997) The Future of English? London: The British Council.