ELA-Author-Fore-OR

Author's Craft - Foreshadowing - Nonprint - Online Resources

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[|"The Old Settler"]** PBS online. Check out the interviews and director's comments. Foreshadowing pervades this production, notably when characters begin to "feel" their future.

[|Jefferson's Enigma] PBS online. This cluster of video segments and text related to Sally Hemings and other elements of Jefferson's character foreshadow a nation's troubles in the coming growth of the country and it diverse economies.

[|Thomas Eakins: Scenes from Modern Life] PBS Video Online. John Singer Sargent paints Vernon Lee and Portrait of a Lady forseshadowing the stream of portraits by Eakins and the "Facing Facts" [based on the book title of the same name (ISBN: 0195038924 by David Shi] aspect of Realism in American Life and Art.

**__[|Great Performances Dialogue Joshua Bell West Side Story Suite]__** Leonard Bernstein, according to the famed violinist Joshua Bell had no idea how his songs would foreshadow a future of popular as well as operatic settings and styles for music and dialogue. This foreshadowing also reflects the coming awareness in Literature and Art of the media & the public about the plight of assimilation in the world's melting pot.

