The Culture of Cinema – Lessons with Final Review Quiz

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1. Defining Terms

  • The Vocabulary of Cinema: origin of the words that describe cinema
  • Elements of the dramatic arts: plot, character, setting, structure, theme

2. Understanding American values through its greatest movies: Language arts activities in usage, vocabulary, reading, writing, dramatic improvisation, pronunciation practice and discussion topics about the historic events of the times included in the study of…

  • The Fifties: Changing values & the generation gap
    • On the Waterfront
    • Rebel Without a Cause
  • The Sixties: Racial/social confrontation
    • To Kill a Mockingbird
    • West Side Story
  • The Seventies: The Underdog as American hero
    • Rocky
    • Saturday Night Fever
  • The Eighties: American artists’ (directors’) personal vision
    • E.T.
    • Platoon
  • The Nineties: Looking back – Historical perspectives
    • Dances with Wolves
    • Forrest Gump

3. Words, Words, Words. Unit Eight Vocabulary List

  • Sentence building
  • Word Structure: Prefixes, Roots, Suffixes 

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