COD 2019 - S648

AS Literature: Stories of Ourselves (2019/20/21)

AS Literature and Language teachers interested in working with both canonical and non-canonical texts from a literary linguistic perspective

4 sesiones, inicia: 08-Ago

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Ciclo: 2019
Nivel: Secundaria
Idioma: Inglés
Estado: Terminado
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Capacitador/es: Ms. Florencia Perduca MA
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Sesiones Fechas Inicia Termina
1 08 Agosto 2019 05:30 pm 08:30 pm
2 22 Agosto 2019 05:30 pm 08:30 pm
3 05 Septiembre 2019 05:30 pm 08:30 pm
4 26 Septiembre 2019 05:30 pm 08:30 pm

Capacitador/es

Florencia Perduca

Florencia Perduca, Graduate Teacher of English and Literary Translator from I. E. S en Lenguas Vivas "J. R. Fernández", MA in Literary Linguistics (University of
Nottingham), is an ESSARP course coordinator specialised in Literatures in Englishes, Literary Linguistic Analysis and Postcolonial Theory. She teaches Literature in English at I.E.S. en Lenguas Vivas "Juan Ramón Fernandez", Cultural Studies at ENS en Lenguas Vivas "Sofía E. Broquen de Spangenberg", Postcolonial Literature at Licenciatura en Lengua Inglesa, Universidad Nacional del Litoral. She teaches IGCSE English Language and Literature. She is Head of Senior School at St. Catherine's Moorlands School, Sede Belgrano.
AS Literature and Language teachers interested in working with both canonical and non-canonical texts from a literary linguistic perspective
- To promote a context-based approach to the reading of texts which lend themselves to exploring Literatures in Englishes.
- To look for and build strategies to raise teachers and students’ awareness of specific cultures and their worlds of meaning.
- To prepare materials that meet AS Literature core objectives.
Set readings from the Anthology Stories of Ourselves for AS 2019.

Raymond Carver’s “Elephant”

Borden Deal’s “The Taste of Watermelon”

Arthur Conan Doyle’s “How it Happened”

Graham Greene’s “The Destructors”

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Hollow of the Three Hills”

Ted Hughes’s “The Rain Horse”

V S Pritchett’s “The Fly in The Ointment”

Ahdaf Soueif’s “Sandpiper”

H G Wells’s “The Door in the Wall”

Oscar Wilde’s “The Happy Prince”

P G Wodehouse’s “The Custody of the Pumpkin”

Virginia Woolf’s “The Lady in the Looking Glass: A Reflection”


 Central themes (the present and the past; displacement; individual vs. society) and thematic threads (the motif of ‘home’ as resignifiying individual/collective identity) cutting all stories across.
 Narrative structure of the short stories.
 Symbols and motifs.
 Cultural gaps.
1) Presentation and discussion of how to approach texts from a literary linguistic perspective.
2) Each story’s/writer’s background and culture
3) Signs of identity in a text written in English
4) Guided group reflection and exchange of ideas on the main themes and issues raised by the text.
5) Reading of key extracts in the short stories and reflection on how they mean.
6) Systematisation of a literary lingustic approach to meet AS Literature requirements.
1) ASHCROFT, GRIFFITHS, TIFFIN (1989) The Empire Writes Back, London: Routledge.
2) ASHCROFT, GRIFFITHS, TIFFIN (1995) The Post- Colonial Reader, London: Routledge.
3) BOEHMER, E. (1995) Colonial and Post-Colonial Literature, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
4) GRADDOL, D. (1997) The Future of English?, London: The British Council.
5) JENKINS, C (ed.) (2009) Stories of Ourselves: The University of Cambridge International Examinations Anthology of Short Stories in English, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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