Using Movies for Literacy

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Using Movies for Literacy

• Agenda Presenters
• Introduction Joshua Stager
• Section 1 Lewis Michelson
• Section 2 Jenny Keller
• Section 3 Harold Watson
• Closing Joshua Stager

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Using Movies for Literacy

• Agenda Presenters
• Introduction Joshua Stager

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Introduction to using Movies in the Balanced
Literacy English Classroom

• Were not in Kansas anymore, Toto.

• Life is like a box of chocolates

• Ill be back.

• Frankly, my dear, I dont give a damn.

• Heres Johnny!

• Never underestimate the power of the dark
  side.

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Scary Statistics! OH SO SCARY!

• According to www.hollywood.com, Scary Movie 3
  grossed 49,704,624 this weekend.
• Texas Chainsaw Massacre earned 14,725,000.
• Scary Movie is rated PG-13.
• Texas Chainsaw Massacre is rated R.
• Guess whos watching what

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Why film?

• Movies incorporate key aspects of learning
  audio, visual, and experiential in the span of
  two hours.

Dont believe me when I TELL YOU the movies
incorporates all those things?
WANNA SEE?!?! DONT TRY ME!
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How to Merge Film with Text

• Positive

• Negative

• Engages students
• Breaks up monotony
• Can be used to teach key literary terms/devices,
  such as plot, theme, characters, motif, etc.
• Acts as visual-candy for students
• Stimulates class discussion
• Can be used as an out-line for in-class text
  assignments

• The world is still text-based
• Doesnt teach grammar
• Threat of over-stimulation
• Does not teach students good writing techniques
  and, therefore, is not an adequate mirror

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Using Movies for Literacy

• Agenda Presenters
• Introduction Joshua Stager
• Section 1 Lewis Michelson

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Lewis ONE To Come
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Lewis TWO To Come
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Lewis THREE To Come
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Lewis Four To Come
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Using Movies for Literacy

• Agenda Presenters
• Introduction Joshua Stager
• Section 1 Lewis Michelson
• Section 2 Jenny Keller

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Gun Control A Multigenre Study
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Bowling For ColumbineA Film by

• Blah, blah, blah

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9 Myths About Gun ControlAn Article by Jack
Perrine (9/20/00)http//www.sas-aim.org/education
/ninemyths.htm

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• Myth 1 "Guns are only used for killing"   
• Myth 2 "Guns are dangerous when used for
  protection
• Myth 3 "There is an epidemic of gun violence
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•  Myth 4 "Guns cause violence
• Myth 5 The Friends and Family fallacy" 
• Myth 6 "A homeowner is 43 times as likely to be
  killed or kill a family member as an intruder"   
• Myth 7 "The costs of gun violence are high" 

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•  Myth 8 "Gun control will keep guns off the
  street
• Myth 9 The costs of gun violence are high

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• Tova C.Blending InSilkscreen and pastel on
  paper, 24 x 36

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The Alternative ProgramViolence in the
MediaCollage and Paint on Paper, 24 x 42 THE
ALTERNATIVE PROGRAM   VIOLENCE IN THE MEDIA
Story Behind the Mural In January and February of
2000, several schools participated in an
anti-violence education program at Harvard
University Art Museums. The project, titled,
Violence Pain, Healing, and Understanding, was
formed in conjunction with the Ben Shahn
exhibition, The Photography of Modern
Times.      During the educational program, a
group of tenth through twelfth graders from an
alternative program at a Massachusetts high
school created the collage mural, Violence in the
Media. It impacts the viewer not only with its
busy layout and contrasting colors, but too with
its intense subject matter. The mural confronts
the depictions of violence in the different forms
of media we consume each day.
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PICTURE TOMMYTommy Dolby 9/2/70 2/19/90 by
TAMMY L. TOBAC

• An LA Raiders cap, turned backwards
• Long brown hair, styled to perfection.
• Stunningly long eyelashes... the envy of all the
  girls.
• I.O.U. sweatshirts and black T-shirts of heavy
  metal bands.
• Tight blue jeans, ripped up knees, only the best
• tennis shoes.
• A big brown cassette case with all of the tapes
• Placed
• Meticulously in alphabetical order.
• Earings and chains and bracelets of silver
• Embellished with knives and guns and crosses.
• The smell of Drakkar when he entered the room.
• Tough and cool on the outside.
• Sensitive and fragile on the inside
• Picture Tommy.

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Using Movies for Literacy

• Agenda Presenters
• Introduction Joshua Stager
• Section 1 Lewis Michelson
• Section 2 Jenny Keller
• Section 3 Harold Watson

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Teaching Romeo Juliet with Movies

• "Two households, both alike in dignity,
• In fair Verona (where we lay our scene)
• From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
• Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean
• From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
• A pair of star-crossed lovers take their lives"

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The Mise-en-scene of Shakespeare

• Romeo and Juliet was a radical departure for the
  playwright.
• He was commenting on his contemporary world as
  much as the historical world of Verona.
• Successful staging of the play has relied on
  contemporary interpretations

Romeo and Juliet
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CLASSIC Romeo Juliet of 1968

• Director Franco Zeffirelli
• Influenced by 60s Idealism of Youth Movement
• Innocent sexuality

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MODERN Romeo Juliet of 1996

• Director Baz Luhrman
• Crafts a modern day life on the beach of a
  multi-cultural West Coast
• Relies heavily on Hollywood iconography-
  including swimming pool love scene.

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Character Study- Juliets Nurse
1996 Nurse A loose but-wise woman
1968 Nurse A cloistered giddy nun
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Compare and Contrast

• The world of Verona, Italy

• The world of Verona Beach, California

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as Romeo and Juliet. - the end
Connect with Themes Relevant to Adolescents
Such as the Effects of Impulsive Decisions All
Images http//www.romeoandjuliet.com/players And
/http//www.laguna.k12.nm.us/rj/
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Using Movies for Literacy

• Agenda Presenters
• Introduction Josh Stager
• Section 1 Lewis Michelson
• Section 2 Jenny Keller
• Section 3 Harold Watson
• Closing Joshua Stager

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Finis

• Lewis Section- To Come
• Violence in Movies
• Understanding the Mise-en-Scene
• Final Thoughts

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Using Movies for Literacy

• Group Presenters
• Joshua Stager, Lewis Michelson,
• Jenny Keller, Harold Watson
• October 28, 2003
• Teaching English with Technology EDUC 1303N,
  Fall03
• Doris Grasserbauer, City College of New York