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Freedom and Security at What Cost?: Utopia Revisited |
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Henry Sanchez
Centerport, New York |
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Estimated Lesson Time: Ten 42-minute sessions |
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Grade Band 7-9 |
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Overview |
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"After students look closely at a movie . . . they seem better able to analyze short stories, essays, and other texts. And once they understand the process of making a movie--the decisions that are made about what comes first, next--they become more aware of their own options as writers when they organize or choose language for a particular type of audience" |
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Film is a medium students "know and love" and . . . the visual arts have become for them the literature of this age. These is a natural synergy between these two texts and this lesson plan seeks to tap into their enthusiasm for movies as a means to foster their enthusiasm for reading print by demonstrating how they can migrate the skills they learned from one to the other for a greater depth of appreciation.
From William Costanzo, Great Films and How to Teach Them |
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From Theory to Practice |
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We all want to live a secure life, free from war, starvation, pestilence and crime; but security comes at a price. Some believe that the price of security for the majority is a curtailment of individual civil liberties. How much are you willing to pay for you and your family's security? We will try to find some answers from the reading of The Giver, by Lois Lowry and a viewing of the movie The Village , by M. Night Shyamalan. This is a language arts lesson that can easily be modified to be taught in an interdisciplinary fashion conjointly with a Social Studies class. |
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Student Objectives: Students will |
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>>sharpen their critical viewing skills, and, at the same time, exercise their critical literary reading of written texts, both non fiction and fiction.
>>make connections between print and nonprint texts and their personal lives and society.
read and write in nonfiction genres: a movie review and a book review and a short film script.
>>examine the freedoms guaranteed by the US Bill of Rights and learn how they relate to their daily lives.
>>use the Internet to access pertinent information and complete assigned work.
>>work cooperatively to complete authentic tasks.
>>use performance to appreciate, comprehend, interpret and evalute the film.
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Resources
The Giver by Lois Lowry
DVD of Shyamalan's The Village |
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