Reading in the Reel World

Reading in the Reel World
Author: John Golden
Publisher: National Council of Teachers of English (Ncte)
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2006
Genre: Education
ISBN:

By tapping into students' natural attraction to film, teachers can help students understand key concepts such as theme, tone, and point of view as well as practice and improve their persuasive, narrative, and expository writing abilities. Studying documentaries helps students learn how nonfiction texts are constructed and how these texts may shape the viewer's/reader's opinion. The book includes classroom-tested activities, ready-to-copy handouts, and extensive lists of resources, such as a glossary of film terminology, an index of documentaries by category, and an annotated list of additional resources. More than thirty films are discussed, giving teachers the tools needed to effectively teach nonfiction texts using popular documentaries.

Reading in the Dark

Reading in the Dark
Author: John Golden
Publisher: National Council of Teachers of English (Ncte)
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2001
Genre: Drama
ISBN:

To believe that students are not using reading and analytical skills when they watch or "read" a movie is to miss the power and complexities of film--and of students' viewing processes. This book encourages teachers to harness students' interest in film to help them engage critically with a range of media, including visual and printed texts. Toward this end, the book provides a practical guide to enabling teachers to feel comfortable and confident about using film in new and different ways. It addresses film as a compelling medium in itself by using examples from more than 30 films to explain key terminology and cinematic effects. And it then makes direct links between film and literary study by addressing "reading strategies" (e.g., predicting, responding, questioning, and storyboarding) and key aspects of "textual analysis" (e.g., characterization, point of view, irony, and connections between directorial and authorial choices). The book concludes with classroom-tested suggestions for putting it all together in teaching units on 11 films ranging from "Elizabeth" to "Crooklyn" to "Smoke Signals." Some other films examined are "E.T.,""Life Is Beautiful,""Rocky,""The Lion King," and "Frankenstein." (Contains 35 figures. Appendixes include a glossary of film terms, blank activity charts, and an annotated resource list.) (NKA)

Reel Conversations

Reel Conversations
Author: Alan B. Teasley
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Total Pages: 220
Release: 1997
Genre: Education
ISBN:

In Reel Conversations, Alan Teasley and Ann Wilder discuss and demonstrate the powerful role film can play in the language arts classroom, both as a subject in itself and as a key dimension of language study.

Viola in Reel Life

Viola in Reel Life
Author: Adriana Trigiani
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2010-04-29
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1847389279

Viola doesn't want to go to boarding school, but somehow she ends up at Prefect Academy, an all-girls school in South Bend, Indiana, far faraway from her home in Brooklyn, New York. Now Viola is stuck for a whole year in what seems to be the sherbet-coloured-sweater capital of the world. Ick. There's no way Viola's going to survive the year - especially since she has to replace her BFFAA (best friend forever and always) Andrew with three new roommates who, disturbingly, actually seem to likebeing at Prefect. She resorts to viewing the world (and hiding) behind the lens of her video camera. But boarding school, her roommates and even Indiana, are nothing like Viola thought they would be, and she soon realises that she may be in for the most incredible year of her life. But first she has to put the camera down and let the world in.

Reel History

Reel History
Author: Alex von Tunzelmann
Publisher: Atlantic Books Ltd
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2015-10-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1782396470

From ancient Egypt to the Tudors to the Nazis, the film industry has often defined how we think of the past. But how much of what you see on the screen is true? And does it really matter if filmmakers just make it all up? Picking her way through Hollywood's version of events, acclaimed historian Alex von Tunzelmann sorts the fact from the fiction. Along the way, we meet all our favourite historical characters, on screen and in real life: from Cleopatra to Elizabeth I, from Spartacus to Abraham Lincoln, and from Attila the Hun to Nelson Mandela. Based on the long-running column in the Guardian, Reel History takes a comic look at the history of the world as told through the movies - the good, the bad, and the very, very ugly.

Reel Power

Reel Power
Author: Marsha Sinetar
Publisher: Liguori/Triumph
Total Pages: 179
Release: 1993-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780892435296

A Reel Job

A Reel Job
Author: Ryan Johnston
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2022-01-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9781737255604

It is a fly fishing book based on 20 years of guiding clients on the river.

Casting about in the Reel World

Casting about in the Reel World
Author: William A. Douglass
Publisher: RDR Books
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2002
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781571430939

From the bone-fishing flats of the Pacific nuclear weapons' proving ground, Bikini Atoll, to the taimen rivers of Outer Mongolia, anthropologist Bill Douglas is the consummate angling adventurer.

Unpacking the Loaded Teacher Matrix

Unpacking the Loaded Teacher Matrix
Author: sj Miller
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2007
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780820486765

What issues in English teacher education are sidestepped because they are too loaded to address? What aren't we talking about when we discuss classroom management, censorship, standardized tests, media literacy, social justice issues, the standards, and technology? What really matters to novices entering the profession? The authors in this book wrestle with the disparities between preservice English teacher instruction and secondary school space as the two collide, and describe the tools that preservice English teachers need to negotiate and navigate between theory and practice. This book answers these questions and offers groundbreaking insights about liberatory pedagogy for how teacher educators can mentor preservice teachers on touchy issues, providing them with tools to reach today's students.

Making Curriculum Pop

Making Curriculum Pop
Author: Pam Goble
Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2016-02-22
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1631980637

From body art to baseball cards, comics to cathedrals, pie charts to power ballads . . . students need help navigating today’s media-rich world. And educators need help teaching today’s new media literacy. To be literate now means being able to read, write, listen, speak, view, and represent across all media—including both print and nonprint texts, such as film, TV, podcasts, websites, visual art, fashion, architecture, landscape, and music. This book offers secondary teachers in all content areas a flexible, interdisciplinary approach to integrate these literacies into their curriculum. Students form cooperative learning groups to evaluate media texts from various perspectives (artist, producer, sociologist, sound mixer, economist, poet, set designer, and more) and show their thinking using unique graphic organizers aligned to the Common Core State Standards