Media and visual texts are powerful influences in students' lives, and this workshop provides educators with numerous ideas for teaching students to be active rather than passive viewers. Beginning with Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet as a spring board for discussion and analysis, participants will respond to and engage in various critical thinking and writing activities using film. Strategies used in the workshop include journal writing, individual and group critiques of film, role playing, and collaborative writing. Students write competently for a variety of purposes and audiences. Students apply reasoning and problem solving skills to their reading, writing, speaking, listening, viewing, and visually representing.
Students write competently for a variety of purposes and audiences.
Students communicate using standard English grammar, usage, sentence structure, punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and handwriting. The purpose of this workshop is to introduce discovery walks as an alternative to using lecture and notes for the introduction of new subject matter. Based upon the history workshop design, discovery walks actively involve students in experiencing a new culture or concept. Discovery walks have students move through learning centers with pictures, film clips, historical artifacts, and necessary textual information. While adaptable to any historical event or period, this particular workshop will model a discovery walk on the history and culture of Ancient Rome.