ELA-Author-Imag-AR

Author's Craft - Imagery - Nonprint - Audiovisual Resources

 * 6-8 **
 * ** //Mood and Sensory Images// [|ETV Streamline], (6:20) Discusses the role of descriptive language in stories,(teacher guide available) **
 * //A Civil Rights Poem //.  [|ETV Streamline], (6:29) In poetry, the writer's challenge is to join precise words and phrases to create a feeling or an image. We study a poem about Rosa Parks to see Rita Dove's use of specific language, style, and imagery. (description from ETV Streamline)
 * E1-E4**
 * "//Smoke Signals//," ShadowCatcher Entertainment, DVD. In the final scene Victor throws his father's ashes over the bridge, chants like an Indian warrior with a primal scream, then he falls to the deck of the bridge. The final voiceover is the Dick Louri poem //If We Forgive Our Fathers, What is Left?// ([|Teach With Movies] offers a film study guide).
 * //Imagery and Irony// [|ETV StreamlineSC], (9:16). Erich Maria Remarque revealed the horrors of World War I in his landmark novel //All Quiet on the Western Front//. See how he uses sensory images and irony to describe the dehumanization of war.
 * //Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor // [|Criterion Collection] novel by This scnen from the 2009 release of the DVD provides images of religion birthed whre there is nothing. Now that the DVD is out, selections could be used to further filling a life of images to replace a send of uselessness.
 * //Growing Up// by Russell Baker [|YouTube amateur film] This short film accentuates a few of the images of the Pulitzer Prize- winning biography of a young journalist. Some are funny, some sad. The words come mainly from the text, but the images they evoke creates a backdrop for success under difficult curcumstances. One "plus" for this film is that the characters are near to high school age themselves.