COD 2010 - S261

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

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

2 sesiones, inicia: 14-May

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Ciclo: 2010
Nivel: Secundaria
Idioma: Inglés
Estado: Terminado
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Capacitador/es: Ms. Paula D'Alessandro
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1 14 Mayo 2010 05:30 pm 08:30 pm
2 11 Junio 2010 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.
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 students.
Background: The shaping of a new society: The rise of the middle class. Aristocracy vs. Bourgeoisie. The new role of women in the 19th century. 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. Suggestions for the classroom.
Presentation of an integrated approach to the text covering 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.

- Pool, D. (1993) What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew. New York: Touchstone Books.

- Pope, R. (1995) Textual Intervention. New York: Routledge.

- Stone, L. (1979) The Family, Sex, and Marriage in England - 1500-1800. London: Penguin Books Ltd.

- Tanner, T. (1985) Jane Austen – Chapter 4: "Knowledge and Opinion: Pride and Prejudice". Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.

- Weldon, F. (1993) Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen. New York: Carroll and Graf Publishers.
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