I was consulting with a homeschool parent about the age-old question, “How do you know it’s high school level?” She asked me how to tell whether “Movies as Literature” was a high school course. The more we talked about it, the more confident she became. Meanwhile, I was getting more and more excited about the curriculum she was asking about. Learning literature through watching movies??? How cool is that!
When I was looking it up online, I noticed that the description of the curriculum answered her question with ease. It says, “This complete, one-year high school English course uses classic movies on video to introduce and study the elements of literary analysis.”
That’s the easy way to tell if it is high school level – it tells you! And that’s the easy way to tell if it is a whole credit (whole year) course – it tells you!
I haven’t seen this product with my own eyes, but it looks like fun to me! If you haven’t seen it before, check it out!
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karen says:
Oooh that sounds good. I am not fond of literary analysis so this might make it more interesting.
March 5th, 2010 at 7:01 pm
Allyson says:
We are using this curriculum this year.
An Extra Bonus!!
It’s very good! We will finish the curriculum over the summer. We can use this course as an “extra” English course — or perhaps an elective. It is very family friendly and by the end of the course you can have a great library of classic movies.
As an aside…It does make you watch movies differently.
Great curriculum!
April 7th, 2010 at 2:07 pm
Sheri says:
Thanks Lee, that does look good!
July 2nd, 2010 at 9:40 am
Paula says:
I’ve had this course for three years or so. I have used the individual movie studies just like I would a book study. Neither of my children would want to do all the movies as one course. Instead I add a movie (like a book study) to our other english requirements.
July 2nd, 2010 at 10:24 am
Susan says:
I am just starting highschool with our daughter. Last year when she was studying World War II, we watched a number of great movies to enrich her study on the subject. She loved this approach! I look forward to using “Movies as Literature” as part of our English Curriculum.
August 7th, 2010 at 10:59 am
karmaismine says:
Sounds like a great course.
My kids read a classic book, then they go to the library and get the movie for movie night. What great discussions and comparisons. We just finished Romeo and Juliet. My son particularly does not like those “important” sections of the book left out! And he especially does not like to have to wait for his older sister to catch up on the reading. Tonight he was finishing up the movie “Moby Dick.”
Movies have added a lot!
March 31st, 2011 at 7:21 pm
Kay says:
I am so glad you reviewed this book! What a relief, and my children are really looking forward to doing this one. Because we have seen (and they hated) one of the movies in the list, we will pick something else for that particular film and use discussions. This is a great way to teach elements of a good story with some meaningful discussion in a fun, new way. I like that they can learn concepts in the conversation without taking 2 weeks to read a particular story. This sounds like Cliff’s Notes for film.
June 29th, 2011 at 11:00 am
Lee says:
Yes, this is definitely one of those things that makes me with I was still homeschooling!
Blessings,
Lee
June 29th, 2011 at 11:50 am