COD 2008 - S261

An Integrated Approach to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (IGCSE 08/09/2010)

IGCSE Literature teachers; teachers/schools who wish to introduce IGCSE English Literature in their curriculum.

2 sesiones, inicia: 15-Ago

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Ciclo: 2008
Nivel: Secundaria
Idioma: Inglés
Estado: Terminado
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Capacitador/es: Ms. Paula D'Alessandro, Ms. Carla Valeria Horton
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1 15 Agosto 2008 05:30 pm 08:30 pm
2 29 Agosto 2008 05:30 pm 08:30 pm

Capacitador/es

Paula D'Alessandro

She is a tenured English Literature lecturer at I.E.S. Lenguas Vivas "Juan Ramon Fernandez" and "Licenciada en Inglés" from Universidad Nacional del Litoral. She has been teaching Language and Literature at secondary school level for over twenty years. At present, she is a Language and Literature coordinator at Santa María school in Pilar, as well as an IGCSE and AS levels Language and Literature teacher at Polimodal level in the same school.

Carla Valeria Horton

Carla Horton is a Graduate History Teacher from Filosofía y Letras, UBA. She is currently teaching Modern Latin American History at UBA, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales. She was also a Secondary School Teacher at Belgrano Day School and Colegio de Todos los Santos.
IGCSE Literature teachers; teachers/schools who wish to introduce IGCSE English Literature in their curriculum.
- To provide Literature teachers with useful tools for the analysis of literary texts. - To make it possible for teachers to understand the historical, literary and social background to the text, both at the moment of its composition and the moment of its setting in time. - To provide them with strategies to facilitate students' access to those texts through textual intervention. - To enhance critical thinking in both teachers and student
Historical focus: The Period of the Napoleonic Wars in England. The shaping of a new society: The rise of the middle class. Aristocracy vs. Bourgeoisie. The new role of women in the 19th century. Literary focus: Background: Augustan sense and sensibility. The arts and the social order. Women in life and literature. Jane Austen's place in English literature. The importance of the comedy of manners. The construction Jane Austen's novels. Pride and Prejudice: Setting and plot. Style. Characterisation: The plight of the Jane Austen heroine. Heroes, caricatures and minor characters. The use of foils. Narrative strategies. The novel as bildungsroman.
Presentation of an integrated approach to the text covering both a historical and a literary background, as well as literary analysis and pedagogical considerations through presentations, debates, pair work and group work activities.
- Ford, B. (ed.) (1954) The Pelican Guide to English Literature : Volume 5: From Blake to Byron – Chapter 1: "The Social Setting". Middlesex: Penguin Books. - Guillie, C. (1974) A Preface to Jane Austen. Hong Kong: Commonwealth Printing Press Ltd. - Gooneratne, Y. (1970) Jane Austen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. - Hardy, B. (1985). Forms of Feeling in Victorian Fiction. Suffolk: Methuen & Co. Ltd. - Hosbawn, E. (1987) La Era De la Revolución 1789-1848. Buenos Aires: Crítica. - Hosbawn, E. (1993) The Age of Capital, 1848-1875. London: Abacus. - Pool, D. (1993) What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew. New York: Touchstone Books. - Pope, R. (1995) Textual Intervention. New York: Routledge. - mero, J. L. (1987) Estudio de la mentalidad burguesa. Buenos Aires: Alianza. Stone, Lawrence (1979) The Family, Sex, and Marriage in England - 1500-1800. London: Penguin Books Ltd. Tanner, Tony (1985). Jane Austen – Chapter 4: ‘Knowledge and Opinion: Pride and Prejudice’. Massachusetts: Harvard University Press Weldon, Fay (1993). Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen. New York: Carroll and Graf Publishers
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