ELA-Author-Flash-AR

Author's Craft - Flashback - Nonprint - Audiovisual Resources

 * 6-8**
 * //Literacy Devices: It's Elementary// (Discovering Language Arts: Fiction) Discovery Channel School [|ETV Streamline] (07:27) Literary devices are tools an author uses to enhance a story. The devices of foreshadowing, flashback, and suspense are used in The Hound of the Baskervilles.
 * //Using Flashbacks to Advance The Story// (A Literary Tour of South Carolina: Mignon Ballard) SCETV,[|ETV Streamline] (2:12)
 * //Using Flashbacks// (A Literary Tour of South Carolina: Idella Bodie) SCETV, [|ETV Streamline] (2:37)
 * //The Sandlot//**//,//** 20th Century Fox, DVD (1:41) The main character in this movie has a flashback of his childhood as he tries to fit in with the boys in his new neighborhood. [|ReadWriteThink] offers an extensive lesson on flashback and flash-forward using this movie.
 * //Holes//, Walt Disney/Walden Media, DVD The main character in this movie has a flashback while on the witness stand testifying. [|Walden Films Teacher Guide]


 * E1-E4**
 * //[|Everything is Illuminated]// a film based on the YA novel of the same name. The flashbacks illuminate the effects of WWII and the brilliance of seeing how the past helps to illuminate the present. The entire film is worth classtime if district policy allows PG films.
 * //[|Broadway Danny Rose]// **,** a film by Woddy Allen. Very Funny.The story is told in flashback, as an anecdote shared amongst a group of comedians over lunch at New York's [|Carnegie Deli]. It is probably better to have the entire film since the flashbacks are numerous and are sometimes part of the voice-overs.
 * //[|Memento]//, a film about memory loss with flashback as the tool use by the protagonist to get to the murderer of his wife. Teacher should prepare to edit parts that may be considered inappropriate for school district.
 * //[|Fur An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus]// a film starring Nichol Kidman and Robert Downey, Jr., the film begins as Diane Arbus, the imfamous photographer, rather casually enters a nudist camp. How she got to that point is the flashback of the film which contains flashforwards as well. Teachers may have to deal with nudity in the film which is, while direct frontal nudity, only a minor part of setting the stage for the flashback.