COD 2010 - S340

An Integrated Approach to Jane Eyre (AS 2010/2011)

A Level/AS level Literature teachers; teachers/schools who wish to introduce A Level Literature/AS Level Language and Literature in English in their curriculum.

2 sesiones, inicia: 13-Ago

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Ciclo: 2010
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 13 Agosto 2010 05:30 pm 08:30 pm
2 27 Agosto 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.

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.
A Level/AS level Literature teachers; teachers/schools who wish to introduce A Level Literature/AS Level Language and Literature in English in their curriculum.
• to provide A level/AS level literature teachers with useful tools for the analysis of literary texts.
• to provide them with strategies to facilitate students’ access to those texts.
• to enhance critical thinking in both teachers and students.
Historical focus
From traditional to industrial society: a new place for women? Victorian society and the rise of ‘working women’. The process of modernization and its impact on traditional values.

Literary focus
Background: the rise of the novel. The origins of gothicism as female genre. The plight of the Victorian woman, in real life and in literature.
Jane Eyre: Character, setting and plot analysis. Prominent devices. The use of imagery and symbolism as narrative strategies. The intrusive narrator. The role of coincidence. Gothic elements and their appeal to the contemporary reader. The figure of the Byronic hero. Jane Eyre as heroine. The novel from the perspective of Gender Studies.
Presentation of an integrated approach to the text between a historical and a literary background through oral presentations, debates, pair work and group work activities. Suggestions for the classroom.
Bronte, Charlotte: Jane Eyre. Signet Classics, U.S.A.

Bloom, Harold: The Brontës. Chelsea House, U.S.A
Ford, Boris (ed.) (1954). The Pelican Guide to English Literature : Volume 6: From Dickens to Hardy – Part 1: ‘Notes on the Victorian Scene’; Part 2: ‘The Literary Scene’. Middlesex: Penguin Books

Hardy, Barbara: Forms of Feeling in Victorian Fiction. Methuen & Co. Ltd., Great Britain, 1985.

Hosbawn, Eric: La Era de la Revolución 1789-1848. Buenos Aires: Crítica, 1987.

Hosbawn, Eric: The Age of Capital, 1848-1875. London: Abacus, 1993.

Pool, Daniel: What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew. Touchstone Books, U.S.A., 1993.

Romero, José Luis: Estudio de la mentalidad burguesa. Buenos Aires: Alianza, 1987.

Stone, Lawrence: The Family, Sex, and marriage in England - 1500-1800. London: Penguin Books Ltd., 1979.
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