Filmography
The extracurricular film class is not only fun, but it is pedagogically driven. Samples of this year’s films are as follows:
| Life is Beautiful | United 93/World Trade Center | IQ | Billy Elliot |
| The Secret Garden | Searching for Bobby Fischer | Princess Bride | Apollo 13 |
| The Blind Side | The Sound of Music | Holes | Jurassic Park |
The films viewed are chosen with care because the course is not designed as an entertainment elective. Students are taught to read films like a text. In fact, closed caption is used to reinforce reading comprehension, vocabulary, and fluency.
Students analyze a variety of text structures and story elements through the visual tools used in films. Students keep a journal; they must write on each film. The journals are reflective in nature, much like a reader-response, but in the case of the film journal, it is a viewer-response.
Film is a legitimate art form that deserves critical assessment, and this course provides the platform for students to learn to not only read a film but to respond. |
From the top clockwise are:
Kelly Antini, Lily Carmichael, Elizabeth Mogford, Shania Walker, Sidnee White
Writing a critique of a movie.
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