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LEARNING GUIDES to feature films
and documentaries

English: Billy Budd
History: Warm Springs (FDR)
Science: Finding Nemo
Health: Super Size Me

LESSON PLANS for snippets
and short subjects

Science: A Bird's Eye View of Migration; snippet from "Winged Migration"

English: Analysis and Explication of Poetry; snippet from "In Her Shoes"

Music: An Introduction to the Orchestra Using "The Bolero"

SET-UP-THE-SUB using movies, snippets,
and short subjects

History:  The Nashville Sit-Ins using "A Force More Powerful"

Science:  Symbiosis and Predation in the World of Insects Using "Microcosmos"

English:  The Child Savior Myth and Literary Archetypes - An Introduction using "Man on Fire".

FOR CHILDREN AGES 3 - 8 — "Guides to Talking and Playing for Growth" with movies

Finding Nemo

Encourage teachers and parents to use historically accurate and culturally significant feature length films to supplement school curriculum and help teach cultural heritage to 5 - 15 year-old-children;

Enable parents to use quality feature length films to enhance their family's common frame of reference and to advance the emotional and moral development of their children;

Maintain a web site from which parents can obtain Learning Guides to help them use films for educational and social-emotional learning; to publish books and pamphlets and to sponsor public events and lectures;

Encourage the movie industry to make films suitable for use by parents to teach cultural heritage and moral values to children by creating a demand for such movies and encouraging film producers to respond to that demand with suitable films; and

Support efforts to eliminate non-essential violence and positive depictions of alcohol, drug abuse and smoking from films.

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