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Curriculum for Middle School -interdisciplinary to introduce students "to classic movies with cultural, historical and artistic significance of film"

film documentaries

David Tennant and Sir Patrick Stewart star in this new version of Hamlet broadcast on PBS.

A short film called 2081 that is based on Kurt Vonnegut's story "Harrison Bergeron"

Activities for studying social control and power through films and graphic novels.

"Studio 360 explores F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and finds out how this compact novel became the great American story of our age. Novelist Jonathan Franzen tells Kurt Andersen why he still reads it every year or two, and writer Patricia Hampl explains why its lightness is deceptive. We'll drive around the tony Long Island suburbs where Gatsby was set, and we'll hear from Andrew Lauren about his film G, which sets Gatsby among the hip-hop moguls. And Azar Nafisi describes the power of teaching the book to university students in Tehran. Readings come courtesy of Scott Shepherd, an actor who sometimes performs the entire book from memory."

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Some of these videos would be great for teaching sonnets, especially if you want students to act them out.