Culture Shock: a Teacher's Guide to Accompany the Four-Part PBS Series Premiering January 2000
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DOCUMENT RESUME ED 447 007 SO 031 706 AUTHOR Jaffee, Cyrisse, Ed.; Sharma, Amina, Ed. TITLE Culture Shock: A Teacher's Guide To Accompany the Four-Part PBS Series Premiering January 2000. INSTITUTION WGBH-TV, Boston, MA. SPONS AGENCY National Endowment for the Humanities (NFAH), Washington, DC.; National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC.; Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Washington, DC.; Ford Foundation, New York, NY.; John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Miami, FL.; Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Morristown, NJ.; George Gund Foundation, Cleveland, OH. PUB DATE 1999-00-00 NOTE 89p.; Videotape series not available from ERIC.Additional funding provided by the Herb Alpert Foundation, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, the Albert A. List Foundation, and the Sheldon H. Solow Foundation. AVAILABLE FROM Culture Shock Teacher's Guide, WGBH Educational Foundation, Educational Print and Outreach, 125 Western Avenue, Boston, MA 02134; Fax: 617 300-1040; Web site: (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/cultureshock/); E-mail: ([email protected]). PUB TYPE Guides - Classroom - Teacher (052) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC04 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *Art Expression; Cultural Education; *CultureConflict; *Documentaries; Historical Interpretation; *Modern History; *Popular Culture; Public Television; Secondary Education; Social Studies; Television Viewing ABSTRACT This teacher's guide accompanies the four videos ("Born to Trouble: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"; "The Shock ofthe Nude: Manet's Olympia"; "Hollywood Censored: Movies, Morality and theProduction Code"; and "The Devil's Music: 1920s Jazz") of the PBS "CultureShock" series. The guide suggests that the videos could be used in theEnglish/language arts classroom, or as part of an interdisciplinary curriculumthey could help sustain either a semester-long inquiry into issues of the artsand intellectual freedom or a chronological or thematic study ofthe arts in the United States. It explains that since all the videostouch on similar issues and questions, the themes become increasingly complexand interesting as they are considered in relation to differentworks of art. The guide contains an explanatory section and additional sections on exploringthe series' themes and on teaching "Huckleberry Finn" in context. Itexamines each video separately, with activities and questions: "About theFilm" offers a film summary and a brief list of key terms,topics, and people; "Literature Links" offers ideas for using the films in conjunction with books;"Viewpoints" contains quotes, article excerpts, and other primary andsecondary sources ideal for student discussion and activities. Eachvideo has its own "Resources" section, while the "General Resources"section lists books, organizations, and Web sites for further exploration.(BT) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. AI IIa .. I II II DD . 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