ACTIVITIES IN THE LIBRARY: PLANS FOR THE NEXT COURSE
In September, with the start of the academic year and the return of the summer holidays, the activities of the Institute's library return in collaboration with the American Space Madrid. We share some of the plans that we are preparing to open our mouths:
– At the request of the participants themselves the spanish book club will focus this time on contemporary American narrative, with titles of modern classics such as "The New York Trilogy" by Auster or "Ragtime" by Doctorow and others by more recent successful authors such as David Wallace Foster, Jeffrey Eugenides or Thomas Pynchon .
-The English reading club for short stories and the poetry club are now considered two parts of the same activity, with two different schedules and genres but a common spirit. That is why the term English Reading Circle It will serve to denominate the two activities and on this occasion both will be focused on American women's literature. To broaden its scope of action and approach the short story, the reading group on poetry as well as poems will include and analyze prose poems for the first time.
As a transition session between the previous cycle and the one that is beginning, we will analyze the poetry of Spencer Reece, who may be able to attend the meeting and comment in person on her prose poem “Margaret” as well as the anthology “Las Chavas: Twelve Love Poems from the Murder Capital of the World” as a result of the project he carried out in an orphanage for girls in Honduras. For its part, the cycle of short stories will begin with one of our favorite authors, Eudora Welty and her story "Why I Live at the PO"
-The activity on dramatized readings in English or "Readers' Theater” for adults will continue to use scenes from American play scripts while the children's session under the title “Folktales on Stage from Aaron Shepard Collection” will use stories from different cultures from scripts by the author mentioned in the title.
-The storytelling cycle in English Library Storytelling Mornings He will use some little-known American “Tall Tales” in Spain as inspiration, such as Paul Bunyan or Johnny Appleseed, trying to exploit their most exaggerated and fun side. Many of the "Tall Tales" have their origin in the camping stories told by the pioneers of North America and therefore the presentation session will be on the story "Apples to Oregon" by Deborah Hopkinson & Nancy Carpenter, which explains a journey to the "Wild West".
-We will also continue with the Group Discussion for Teens for ESO and Baccalaureate students (by appointment with the library) and Reading Roadmaps that punctually will dot the agenda of the 2015-2016 academic year.
It is already possible to sign up through the agenda for the next sessions; We will be expanding details about each of them and possible new activities from September.
Happy summer and see you in the library this fall!
