It is like Rear Window, very much so just more modern. I also liked it because it just seemed like it could happen, it was so far fetched of a thriller movie.I loved Holes, but haven't seen Disturbia -- I keep meaning too since my students tell me it is very similar to Rear Window (I always do a big film analysis unit with my 8th graders using Alfred Hitchcock movies).
I hope you get to see it soon, too!
I loved Holes, but haven't seen Disturbia -- I keep meaning too since my students tell me it is very similar to Rear Window (I always do a big film analysis unit with my 8th graders using Alfred Hitchcock movies).
I hope you get to see it soon, too!
Can I just say that I wish I had you as a teacher!!!!
You show Indiana Jones when you get done with your holy grail unit, and now you say you use Alfred Hitchcock movies for film analysis...when did teachers get so cool????
Also, I am a big one about making connections -- so often people don't realize that is what they do when they read or watch something -- connect it to something they have watched or read before, something that happened in the world, something that happened to them. That's why we like certain books/films more than others -- we connect with them on some level.
Sorry, you can take the teacher out of the classroom, but...
Like Fountas and Pinnell's (we call them F&P)Text-to-text, text-to-self, and text-to-world connections! You can take a teacher out of the classrom, but you definatley cannot take the classroom out of the teacher!
I know what you mean about Charles not watching the trailers, and to his defense, sometimes after the movie is released, they get really ridiculous. You can pratically see all the major plot points! I love the newness of seeing a film for the first time.
And that's so cool that you teach your kids how to make those kind of connections. I'm serious, I wish I'd had a teacher like you although I always thought my English/lit teachers were so cool. I'm sure they were, but it didn't help that it was my favorite subject!
Thanks! Literature (followed closely by history) was always my favorite subject, too!
Me too!
I could not stand math and science, although I had several lovely teachers in both subjects.
Funny how life turns out, huh?
Hate math = part-time bank teller
Amen, sister!
Don't I know it...although I do have to say, working at a bank has made me so much more financially savvy than I ever was before. I have so much of a better concept of what to do with our money, so if this job has taught me anything (it's taught me a lot, but we'll run with it), that's it.That's what we call irony!
I just love that Pinnell's name is GaySue...that cracks me up!
They are the gurus...they just came out with a program that will score the kids' reading abilites...and give you their reading levels...like a DRA...but more aligned with F&P's levels. Reading dorks we are....reading dorks!
Don't I know it...although I do have to say, working at a bank has made me so much more financially savvy than I ever was before. I have so much of a better concept of what to do with our money, so if this job has taught me anything (it's taught me a lot, but we'll run with it), that's it.
Our district just adoped their new program, so I'll look into it for you.
Four days until Disney??? Woo hoo for you!!!
I hope you get to see the movie before you leave -- it will help pass the time while you wait to go on vacation!
I went to see Indy today! I really liked it.........only one part of the storyline I really didn't like, but I'll save that for later so I don't ruin it for anyone!
Can you believe this is the first Indiana Jones movie I've seen?
Thanks for the cheer--I did get to see the movie, but unfortunately it *way* cut into my last-minute preparations for the trip. (Largely because the show we wanted to see was sold out, so we ended up driving to another theater. And might I mention the first theater was 40 min away from where I live due to my brother wanting a lay-z boy chair from my parents. Long, and boring, story.)
I agree, Shia was excellent! Loved the primping. Though I guess Mutt wouldn't call it primping, being a greaser.
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