Romantic Stop-animation film gets harsh review
Have senior students watch Bruce Alcock’s 6 minute stop-animation film Vive la Rose and respond to the suite101 criticism that, “It’s a …
Category Archives: Responding to and Evaluating Texts
Burned Libraries Considered
In 2003 Ms. Baker, 50-year old, head librarian of Basra’s Central Library worried when Iraqi government officials moved their offices …
“The Invention of Love” Animated Film Used to Teach Literary Devices
Use this 9 minute film on Valentine’s Day with your intermediate students to introduce reading expectation 2.4, Elements of Style. …
Paste of Love–animated film to teach main idea
Paste of Love, a short animated film by German students Simon Gielder, Thomas Gugel and Christian Lerch in 2009, depicts …
Award-Winning Animated Short Film
“The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore,” is an animated 15 minute film by William Joyce (2011) and is …
Compare Two Renditions of “The Jabberwocky”
Using specific expectation 1.3 “Responding to and Evaluating Texts” in Media Literacy, grade 7s and 8s could use the two …
What does the Spanish sign intend to say?
On a recent trip to Spain I photographed this cryptic sign in a parking garage of a museum in Valencia. …
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