We asked our Facebook homeschool-friends to share their favorite movie adaptations of a book. (We love good movies for enriching our children’s educational experiences.) Here they are: History Movies for Homeschool – Our Favorite Titles for High School (Note: Some of these are most appropriate for high schoolers.) Ancient History Spartacus The Robe Ben Hur…
My homeschool mom-friends and I often like to show the movie that has been made from a book our kids have been reading for literature. I’ve sometimes had discussions with my homeschool buddies about when the BEST time is for showing the movies. Movies from Books There are several theories on this pressing 🙂 question:…
Excerpt from Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner Cinema Study Guide The following are pictures of the actual pages in the PDF download. If you have any further questions please contact us! We have the following blog posts to help: How to Earn a Social Studies Credit in Racial Sensitivity Cinema Studies for Literature Learning in…
One of my favorite directors who has taken classic literature and brought it onto the silver screen is Kenneth Branagh and his productions of several of Shakespeare’s plays. Branagh dares to set the stories in entirely the wrong time period, in the wrong country, even, and yet I love his productions. Why? Because he seems to understand the SPIRIT of the play, and he successfully translates that SPIRIT into the setting he chooses for his production.
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