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Lesson: Mathias Poledna: Crystal Palace

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Film analysis takes critical thinking, connections, and context. Upper graders look at the film installation, Crystal Palace in terms of the film makers choices, presentation, and perspective of truth. After an analytical discussion of the film, kids take images of their urban landscape, then crop and alter them to create abstractions of their personal realities.

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critical thinking, film analysis, film, abstract art, contemporary art, self expression, colonialism

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abstract art, colonialism, contemporary art, critical thinking, film analysis, new media, self expression, exoticism, film, mathias poledna, personal perception, relative truth, social studies
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9th - 12th
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Social Studies & History
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