Objectives
This unit is specifically designed to develop students' listening, critical thinking, active reading, and analytical writing. The unit also fulfills the Virginia Standards of Learning for Grade 10 and prepares students for the end-of-course English test, which they must pass in order to graduate. Students will be able to identify universal themes, describe cultural archetypes, and examine films from different critical perspectives. Students will also engage in various writing activities that focus on interpretation, analysis, and evaluation of ideas. Students will also participate in small-group learning activities.
The addition of this unit to my World Literature course will also expose students to a diversity of stories, storytelling techniques, and literary traditions from around the world; enhance students' understanding our of our complex human family, complementing their study of world geography; and foster a global consciousness and an appreciation of human rights.
In addition, students will be able to discuss the following questions, providing evidence for their ideas:
- How can film, like literature, be read as a text?
- How are traditional literary techniques such as point of view, plot, theme, and character deployed in the medium of film?
- How do technical and aesthetic choices shape a story on film?
- How do different literary and cinematic traditions revealed in films from different countries?
- How can a basic understanding of culture help us better understand others and ourselves?
- How and why do filmmakers tell the stories of women struggling to resist oppression?
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