TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD: SEEING THE FILM THROUGH THE LENS OF MEDIA LITERACY
© 2006 Frank Baker
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scene from the film 3 select clips (Thinkquest) 3 select clips (NY Times) |
Atticus Finch’s closing argument |
Study Guide (with student questions for consideration)
Watching Movies With Sissy Spacek: In the Arms of Memory (Feb. 2002, NYT)
Seeing & Believing How to Teach Media Literacy In The English Classroom
AMPAS/Youth Media International: Film Study Curriculum
Film & Reading Strategies, from Reading In The Dark: Using Film As A Tool
In the English Classroom (NCTE)Studying Feature Films
Reflections of a Classroom Film Teacher: It’s Always Been A Matter of Respect!
Media Literacy Goes to The Movies, Telemedium, Fall 1999
The female voice in To Kill a Mockingbird: Narrative strategies in film and novel.
Mississippi Quarterly; Winter96/97, Vol. 50 Issue 1, p101, 13p
(also contained in the volume Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations: To Kill A Mockingbird, Updated Edition)
To Kill a Mockingbird: Then and now. English Journal, April 1997
Reel Justice: The Courtroom Goes To The Movies
Hollywood and race: To Kill A Mockingbird, in Cinema & Fiction: New Modes of Adapting,
1950-1990, edited by John Orr and Colin Nicholson, Edinburgh Univ. Press, 1992
(also contained in the volume Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations: To Kill A Mockingbird, Updated Edition)
Quoting Films In English Class, by Richard H. Fehlman, English Journal, September 1987
Turner Classic Movies: To Kill A Mockingbird
To Kill A Mockingbird, Threatening Boundaries by Claudia Durst Johnson
Understanding To Kill A Mockingbird, A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources and Historic Documents,
by Claudia Durst Johnson
To Kill A Mockingbird, 25th Anniversary Brochure & Study Guide, Studies in the Mass Media,
reprint of the March 1963, Volume III, No. 6, ©The National Council of Teachers of English
The following resources are available for purchase from the Center for Media Literacy:
How to Read A Film
Media Literacy: Thinking Critically About Movies
Reading In the Dark
Reading the Movies
Reel Conversations: Reading Films With Young Adults
Seeing And Believing: How to Teach Media Literacy In the English Classroom
