Stories around the World in Film

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 06.01.02

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. Objectives
  4. Cinematic Technique
  5. Geographical Perspective
  6. Motherland Gaze
  7. Visions of Africans in America
  8. Religious Indications
  9. Heart of a Woman
  10. Envision Literature
  11. Lesson Plan 1
  12. Lesson Plan 2
  13. Lesson Plan 3
  14. Annotated Bibliography
  15. Annotated Filmography
  16. Note

Life Made Aware: Scripting Lives through Eyes Only

Bonnee L. Breese Bentum

Published September 2006

Tools for this Unit:

Note

i. Terri Francis. Ethnicity, Race, and Film: African-American Cinema. p. 4.

ii. Richard Maynard. Propaganda on film: a Nation at War. p. 1.

iii. Roy Ashbury, et.al. Teaching African Cinema. p. 72.

iv. Keith M. Harris. Boys, Boyz, Bois: An Ethics of Black masculinity in film and Popular Media. p. 22.

v. Ibid, p.5.

vi. Terri Francis. p.6.

vii. Thomas A. Tweed. "Islam in America: From African Slaves to Malcolm X." [6].

viii. Ibid, [7].

ix. I-Search is an essay that gives details a search for information as well as the information itself. It may include techniques such as interviews, observations, and traditional library research methods.

x. Peter Reynolds. Novel Images: Literature in Performance. p.14.

xi. Richard Maynard. Classroom Cinema. p. 133.

xii. Text projection uses a computer and the visual projection of the text of a story. Teachers can use an interactive whiteboard to achieve this effect.

xiii. Dialectical journal is an informal record for student notes using two columns. Students use one column for notes and the other for ideas and comments.

xiv. Venn diagram is a graphic organizer of overlapping circles for charting similarities and differences between and among characters, plots, settings and themes.

xv. Denotes film shown in color.

xvi. Denotes film shown in black and white.

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