COD 2012 - S403

The importance of Being Earnest: IGCSE 2013- 2014 - 2015

IGCSE Literature Teachers.

1 sesiones, inicia: 17-Ago

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Ciclo: 2012
Nivel: Secundaria
Idioma: Inglés
Estado: Terminado
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Capacitador/es: Mr. Leonardo Andrés Pantaleo
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1 17 Agosto 2012 05:30 pm 08:30 pm

Capacitador/es

Leonardo Andrés Pantaleo

Leonardo graduated from the University of La Plata as a Teacher of English Language and Literature. He is doing his MA degree in Literary Studies at UBA. He has worked as a Teaching Assistant in Contemporary English Literature for two years and one in English Culture and Civilization at UNLP. He has participated in several academic conferences. For the past fifteen years, he has taught ESL and FLE classes for IGCSE and AS/A English Language and Literature in English at Patris Bilingual School, City Bell, and he has prepared IB candidates at St. George's, Quilmes and at Southern International School. For the past three years, he has developed digital material for an online educational platform.
IGCSE Literature Teachers.
- To discuss the value of introducing contextual information in our classes.
- To provide IGCSE literature teachers with useful tools for the analysis of a text.
- To discuss possible ways of facilitating students' reading and interpretations of the text.
- To introduce specific terminology to analyze Wilde’s work.
- Context of production: Victorian Era.
- Aestheticism and the Decadent Movement.
- Use of language: epigrams, puns and inversions.
- Genre: Society Comedies.
- The play's innovation in reference to the rest of Wilde's production.
- The concept of "camp".
- Presentation and discussion of how to deal with the play.
- Participants will be presented with material to arouse students' interest and to facilitate their understanding of the play.
- Discussing possible ways to enhance students’ production for the AS/IGCSE literature.
- IGCSE syllabus and material available on www.cie.org.uk
- Notes on Camp in Against Interpretation: And Other Essays by Susan Sontag. New York, Picador: 2001
- Oscar Wilde and the Poetics of Ambiguity by Michael Patrick Gillespie. Gainesville, FL, University Press of Florida: 1996
- Henry James, Oscar Wilde and Aesthetic Culture by MichÈle Miendelssonhn. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press: 2007
- Oscar Wilde: The Critic as Humanist by Bruce Bashford. Madison, NJ, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999.
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