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- Grade Range
- 7th - 8th
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Students watch films from the 1920s, discuss films from the 1990s, and compare films from the two time periods. The teacher should introduce this lesson by describing the importance and popularity of motion pictures during this period. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students participate in an engaging, alternative assessment activity: making a silent film of an Edgar Allen Poe story. This project offers them an additional way to demonstrate their mastery of the topic. Using technology allows students to demonstrate s Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students watch the Charlie Chaplin film "The Kid". They apply the concepts of realism and formalism to the film text. They discover how to "read" a film for different components. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students examine the music used in films today. They define three ways in which the music is used to create meanings in films. They also examine how the images create meaning for the film. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students examine how various painting styles anticipated the new artistic medium of film in 1895. They identify what makes film unique as a medium, view a Powerpoint presentation, and construct an animation toy or flip book. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students are given a film vocabulary terms packet and a variety of graphic organizers. They view excerpts of films that illustrate the vocabulary terms and record their observations on the graphic organizers. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students are introduced to the routine of film studies class. They view a short film from Jiri Trnka called "The Hand" and write out a response. They also complete a film survey to identify and discuss their film viewing habits. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 1st - 5th
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Students discover what makes a good paper. They watch different types of films and write a response to them. They share their paper with their classmates as well. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 8th
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Students create dialogue that relates to a Florida Archives silent film clip. They research the Florida Memory Project and view a film clip. They record their dialogue on index cards and review and revise the dialogue as needed. They present their narrative to the class. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th
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Students after reading and analyzing a variety of literary texts reflect on their readings and translate their themes to other art forms and creative means of expression. They are introduced to an accelerated pace and depth of The Seagull Reader and the annotated version on "The Story of an Hour," by Kate Chopin. Full Review »
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