Hi there! I hope you had a restful, satisfying Spring Break, and that you are energized for this last part of the school year. I apologize for falling down on my responsibility to update this blog, and I assure you I will be updating it each day until the end of the school year! I promise!
Today, we began a mini-lesson on documentary films. We discussed that even with documentaries, which claim to represent "reality," those realities are constructed, and we should be aware and critical of the messages which the filmmakers intend to convey.
We began watching Bowling for Columbine, a documentary film made in the early 2000s, by American filmmaker Michael Moore. Our goal with this activity is to determine which messages Moore is attempting to get across, and which persuasive techniques he uses in order to do this.
An introduction to the mini-lesson was detailed on a handout I gave out today, and can be accessed at the side, here. There are some guiding questions to consider, as you watch the film.
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