Using Film to Teach Common Core Skills
When I was a student, watching a movie in class meant watching documentaries, literary adaptations, or informational filmstrips.
These film-viewing experiences were not without their impact. I can still sing the theme song from a particularly gruesome film we viewed in 5th grade during my first adventures with sex education curriculum. It was titled, "My Mother's Having a Baby," but should have offered the additional subtitle of "Literally, Right There on Screen," so that we could have had a little more context for the images we were about to see.
Traumatic memories aside—I remember my student experiences with film being very passive. I might've filled out a worksheet or two, but that's all. But now that I am a high school teacher myself, I use film to inspire my students' interaction with...
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