An old friend of mine who teaches at a public high school in Minnesota just got word that he’s inherited a 12-week elective course on film, and he’s reached out to me, asking if I might help him design the curriculum. All that he’s been given to work with thus far is a list of […]
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Designing the Curriculum for an Awesome High School Film Class: Part One
Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Uncategorized Also tagged 1957, 1974, A Face in the Crowd, Algeria, Algerian War of Independence, Andy Griffith, Billy Wilder, Blade Runner, bugging, celebrity culture, curriculum, Dan Richardson, documentary film, Donald Trump, Double Indemnity, drifters, Elia Kazan, Eugene McCarthy, film criticism, film history, film school, films, folksy, foreign film, France, Francis Ford Coppola, Gene Hackman, Gillo Pontecorvo, Glenn Beck, great films, Harrison Ford, Harry Caul, Hot Channels, House Committee on Un-American Activities, Italy, Lonesome Rhodes, M, Martin Stett, Mildred Pierce, neorealist, populism, privacy, red scare, simple truths, small town America, social media, Sunset Boulevard, surveillance, surveillance culture, terrorism, The Battle of Algiers, The Conversation, The Killing, The Night of the Hunter, torture 26 Comments
Reconnecting with old friends over tropical fruit, cheap beer and embarrassing stories of youth
I spent the last 48 hours in the tiny town of Newton, New Jersey, reconnecting with old high school friends. It was a plan hatched earlier this last spring, at the funeral of my friend Dan’s mother. A few of us, if I remember correctly, were lamenting the fact that we didn’t see more of […]
Posted in Mark's Life, OCD, Uncategorized Also tagged cliques, Dan Richardson, New Jersey, Newton, Newton High School, reunions, The Big Chill, things that make Mark happy, Tropical Fruit Day, young Mark 6 Comments
Are Ann Arbor’s school dress codes out of date and sexist? Two high school students seem to think so.
A couple of weeks ago, Ada Banks, a sixteen year old student at Community High, and her friend Julia Hale, a sophomore at Pioneer, drafted a petition aimed at persuading the administrators of Ann Arbor’s public high schools and middle schools to reconsider their dress codes. “As students who must follow these codes,” the two […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Education, Uncategorized Also tagged accountability, Ada Banks, Ann Arbor Public Schools, blame the victim, distraction, dress code, halter tops, hot pants, Jeanice Swift, Julia Hale, petitions, porn, self-respect, sexism, sexualizing kids, shirt of shame, social media, tank tops, teen sex, teens, zero tolerance 47 Comments