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With many schools adopting the Common Core Standards, being able to critically analyze visual information is part of the curriculum for various subject areas, including language arts and history. One way you, the teacher, can introduce visual information into your lesson plans is by using film. Not only will your students have to stay focused on the content of the film, but they will need to be able to think about literary elements such as character development, plot and setting (when and where the story takes place). You may have students analyze character development from the beginning to the end of the movie or determine whether certain characters are being stereotyped based on the way they talk, act or dress. You may also use film to increase your students' understanding of events that took place in history, such as an abbreviated version of the movie Titanic or the reality of life in concentration camps during World War II as depicted in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.
In today's classroom, being able to effectively analyze visual information may be a little more difficult than analyzing text. There are a number of strategies that can be used when teaching film in high school.
Teaching film can be an engaging teaching tool for increasing your students' interest in current events and issues related to the world in which they live. In the past, teachers commonly used movies in the classroom as a means of taking a break from instruction. Now, films can be used to introduce visual and auditory information, along with character, plot, setting and other literary elements.
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