Tag Archives: PBS

Why #PBL for Students Today?

Posted on August 22, 2019 by Bill Sullivan

While this recent PBS documentary Cyber Work and the American Dream reports serious concerns about the future, there are some positive suggestions about how to get this current generation ready for their turbulent careers ahead of them. Students today must … Continue reading →

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Sheldon Cooper: Misfit in High School (The Big Bang Theory)

Posted on January 16, 2017 by leo5jinwoo

Who is considered a misfit? Someone who looks unlike? Someone who acts different? An outsider? Sheldon Cooper, I believe, is a perfect fit for a misfit. Sheldon is a physicist, the main character, in The Big Bang Theory, an American … Continue reading →

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Utilizing Great TV Writing to Appreciate Shakespeare

Posted on January 8, 2017 by Bill Sullivan

We’re using this great PBS show to appreciate character development in our Shakespeare’s Comedies class. In particular, this documentary helped us appreciate strong female characters as well as the most comic archetype that finds a way to express ideas that … Continue reading →

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Here is a Good Source for the Latest Information about Ebola

Posted on October 12, 2014 by Bill Sullivan

http://video.pbs.org/viralplayer/2365340607

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Connect a Specific Line from Whitman’s Poetry to a Specific Scene in This Documentary

Posted on September 26, 2014 by Bill Sullivan

The technology staff in the Crowsnest is still trying to find out why PBS took the great episode of Whitman off of their American Experience website. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/whitman/program/ Moving forward, let’s have everyone view and absorb these three great segments below. … Continue reading →

Posted in 21st Century Learning, Flipped Classroom, Whitman | Tagged American Experience, PBS | 14 Comments

Homework Viewing of PBS Documentary; Let’s Get Started with Comedy

Posted on December 3, 2013 by Bill Sullivan

Hello everyone. Let’s continue viewing the rest of this for homework so that we can save time for class to discuss the important take-aways. We are on the road to understanding important elements of comedy that will help us read … Continue reading →

Posted in 21st Century Learning, Digital Shakespeare, Flipped Classroom, Shakespeare | Tagged PBS | 10 Comments

Connect a Specific Line from Whitman to the PBS Film

Posted on September 29, 2013 by Bill Sullivan

Posted in 21st Century Learning, American Literary Studies, Honors English III, Slavery | Tagged American Experience, PBS | 12 Comments

Connect One Aspect of Whitman’s Biography to Your Understanding of American Romanticism

Posted on November 6, 2012 by Bill Sullivan

View these short PBS videos on Uncle Walt’s life and write 3-5 sentences in which you connect one specific detail about his biography (life history) to one characteristic of Romanticism. Click on the comment thread and paste your prose (Remember … Continue reading →

Posted in American Literary Studies, English III, Homework, Poetry | Tagged PBS, Whitman | 6 Comments

You Go Girl–Anne Hutchinson

Posted on September 17, 2011 by Bill Sullivan

Anne Hutchinson soundly defeats John Winthrop in court on the first day of her trial. She was forty-six at the time and advanced in her fifteenth pregnancy” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Hutchinson). Though advertising and the media have turned the phrase “You go girl” … Continue reading →

Posted in American Literary Studies, Feminism, Religion | Tagged Hawthorne, PBS | Leave a comment

The Influence of Religion in our American Cultural History

Posted on September 15, 2011 by Bill Sullivan

This sweeping preview shows how the religious elements in our colonial literature era began a narrative thread that runs through major moments in America’s cultural history. I thought that this cinematic display might inspire our scholarship as we try to … Continue reading →