The next unit my classes will be covering is documentary films. I always hate watching movies in class, and I try to avoid it if at all possible, but when it's docs, I generally get pretty excited.We'll be covering the process of creating arguments (you know, for like essays and stuff), and we'll be exploring digital story-telling in general. At the end of it all, or rather during it all, I hope to orchestrate a full-class project where the students make their own short documentary.
The problem is that a lot of teachers show documentaries now, and it's difficult to choose ones that are of interest to teens, but that they haven't seen before (six times). I have a preliminary list I'm considering, but I am totally willing to accept any recommendations that you (my lovely readers) have.
So please, give me your suggestions and spare the children from An Inconvenient Truth (again).
My preliminary list looks like this:
Roger & Me (ironically timely?)
Our Daily Bread
F.L.O.W
Who Killed the Electric Car?
Crude Awakening
Control Room
Sicko
Paperclips
30 Days (Morgan Spurlock's TV show)
1 comment:
I like 'When We Were Kings'.
Um, from my collection of docs that aired on Newsworld and might appeal to teenagers there are:
- The Human Behaviour Experiments
- Taking on the Taliban: The Soldiers' Story
Random things:
- Train on the Brain
- Helvetica
- Star Wars: A New Hope
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