Standard 11-13-2013

Those questions are coming along.  I like the way you called them out, remembered them and then started to apply them to the article on Jackie Robinson and the movie 42.   We still have some work to do on that last one, but don't worry, we will keep coming up with ways to use those questions.

One of the big ways was introduced today.  You must read a nonfiction book and then view a movie that is either based off of the nonfiction book or watch one that is related to the book.  It can be a Hollywood blockbuster or it can be an independent documentary.  Either way you will be reading the nonfiction book, watching the film, and then making as presentation over how the two different mediums present the same (or similar information).  Both mediums (the text and the film) have advantages and disadvantages.  Your job will be to examine both and then present those advantages and disadvantages.  You'll be responsible for a little more as well, but you can look for that tomorrow in class when I distribute the hand out.

For now here is a link to nonfiction books that have been turned into films.   If you can't find anything on that list you can always try this one.  In addition, here is a list of nonfiction books with brief descriptions after them.  You don't need to choose any of these books.  They key is for you to find something that is of interest to you because you are going to be spending an awful lot of time on it.  Don't be rash.  Choose wisely.

Nonfiction Titles

Into the Wild (man escapes to Alaskan wilderness)

Where Men Win Glory (Pat Tillman and Afghanistan)

Zeitoun (Katrina aftermath)

Under the Banner of Heaven (scathing look at fundamentalist Mormons)

Ghost Soldiers (prisoner of war rescue)

Black Hawk Down (American soldiers in Somalia)

Into Thin Air (climbing and dying on Mt. Everest)

Between a Rock and a Hard Place (man cuts off own arm to live)

The Wild Parrots (man bonds with parents)

Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth (yup, it’s about dirt)

Half the Sky (plight of repressed women)

The Payback (economics)

Silent Spring (birth defects due to chemicals)

Black Boy (black in America)

The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Malcolm X)

This Boy’s Life (young boy in America)

In Cold Blood (true crime)

Angela’s Ashes (poor in Ireland)

Perfect Storm (storm over water)

War (book about war in Afghanistan)

Death In Belmont (true crime)

Devil in the White City (murders in Chicago)

In the Garden of Beasts (Americans in Nazi Germany)

The Last Lecture (man’s advice to his children)

I am Malala (young girl shot by Taliban)

Killing Kennedy (book on Kennedy)

Band of Brothers (WWII book)

The Heart and the Fist (Navy Seal and Humanitarian)

Seal Team Six (memoirs of navy seal)

Dreams of my Father (Barack Obama)

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (growing up female and blackin the 1930s)

A Walk in the Woods (Appalachian Trail)

Fast Food Nation (food in America)

And the Band Played On (AIDS at the start)

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

The Executioner’s Song (death penalty)

The Blindside (football)

An Innocent Man (true crime/death penalty)

Eat, Pray, Love (woman stuff and travel)

A Long Way Gone (African child soldiers)

See you soon.