COD 2010 - PS58

Exploring and Exploiting the Twilight Craze and the Vampire Tradition

Primary and Secondary School teachers.

2 sesiones, inicia: 22-Feb

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Ciclo: 2010
Nivel: Primaria / Secundaria
Idioma: Inglés
Estado: Terminado
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Capacitador/es: Ms. María Cristina Llorente, Ms. María Cecilia Pena Koessler MA
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Sesiones

Sesiones Fechas Inicia Termina
1 22 Febrero 2010 09:00 am 12:00 pm
2 24 Febrero 2010 09:00 am 12:00 pm

Capacitador/es

María Cristina Llorente

Maria Cristina has been a tenured lecturer of Language and Culture II , III and IV at Instituto Superior del Profesorado "Presbitero A.M. Sáenz "Lomas de Zamora. Director of Language Centre Graham Greene, Longchamps. She has attended courses on Cinema Studies with theorists Eduardo A. Russo, Carlos Gamerro and Javier Porta Fuz. English Literature and Film Studies tenured lecturer at Universidad Nacional del Litoral 2005-2006, and Tenured Lecturer of Literary Theory at Universidad Nacional del Litoral 2009. Licenciada en Inglés UNL (2009). Final thesis on the film The Silence of the Lambs. Has attended courses with film director Adrian Caetano and film critic Gustavo Noriega. She has studied Film Criticism at Escuela de Cine de la revista El Amante in Capital Federal.

María Cecilia Pena Koessler

Graduate Teacher of English at Primary level and at Secondary level from I.E.S en Lenguas Vivas "J. R. Fernández." Postgraduate course in Medieval and Renaissance Literature at I.E.S en Lenguas Vivas "J.R. Fernández." MA in Literary Linguistics (University of Nottingham) and Medieval Studies Master's degree student (UBA). She teaches English Literature I and Children and YA 's Literature at I.S.P. J.V.González and I.E.S. en Lenguas Vivas "J.R. Fernández" Teacher Training Colleges and IGCSE and IB literature at secondary schools. She has participated in research projects on Intercultural Awareness and Border Thery. She has co-authored "Little Stars" pre-primary series and "Our Stories" primary series for Pearson and designed creative writing and literature materials for other series (Pearson and Macmillan).
Primary and Secondary School teachers.

- To encourage English teachers to read bestsellers in the language and literature class.
- To explore the figure of the animal–boyfriend in myths and fairytales and the Byronic hero in the literature of the 19th-20th century.
- To discover symbols and themes by means of paratexts.
- To establish connections between Twilight and its intertexts.
- To devise pre, while and post reading activities for Twilight.
- To acquaint teachers with traditional and current vampire texts and movies.
During the course of the first session Cecilia Pena Koessler will deal with the characteristics of fairy tales and the concept of animal boyfriend .Then the Twilight saga will be explored in the light of these concepts.
The history of the cinematic vampire and the intertextual precursor texts of the novels will be analysed and discussed in the course of the second session by Licenciada Maria Cristina Llorente.
- Oral presentation.
- Group work.
- Creative writing activities.
- Bettleheim, Bruno (1991) Psicoanálisis de los Cuentos de Hadas. Barcelona: Editorial Crítica.
- Amery, Heather (1999) Greek Myths for Young Children. New York: Scholastic.
- Duffy, Carol Ann (1996) Grimm Tales. London: Faber and Faber Limited.
- Kimberley Reynolds (ed). Modern Children's Literature: An Introduction. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
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