art supplies led to clarinet led to TV led to language arts...
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art supplies led to clarinet led to TV led to language arts...
It could be great for the mom to watch the shows with those ideas in mind,
though.
OR... not to watch the shows, but to be aware that her kids might (if not
discouraged) figure out all those things on their own.
When I was a kid I LOVED English classes. I took extra ones, then went to
college and studied English and then taught English. I LOVE that stuff.
But...
But...
Things I learned painstakingly, did grudgingly, "studied" and then pressed
others to try to do are all things my kids do without knowing what it is,
without considering that it's "hard" or even has a formal name or particular jargon.
Comparison/contrast: NO PROBLEM
Character analysis? no problem
Plot summary and analysis? no problem
Thematic discussions (and tying back to comparison/contrast and the rest...)
no problem.
They might not know those terms, but if they read them in context they would
understand them.
What they do know is how to discuss lyrics, composition, dialog,
characterization, motive, theme, the effects of music and artistic presentation...
It's "just watching movies" or "just listening to music" to most people, but
it's all the best parts of "language arts" in practice.
Sandra
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> -=-Well - there is also the whole "writing" side of soaps - what kind ofI love the questions, but I wouldn't share them with young kids.
> writing does it entail - how is that different from writing a movie
> or a short story or a novel or ....? How do the writers keep people
> "hooked" on the stories? (But be careful that you don't turn this
> into a "language arts" lesson - I almost hesitate to even mention
> this aspect of it.) -=-
>
It could be great for the mom to watch the shows with those ideas in mind,
though.
OR... not to watch the shows, but to be aware that her kids might (if not
discouraged) figure out all those things on their own.
When I was a kid I LOVED English classes. I took extra ones, then went to
college and studied English and then taught English. I LOVE that stuff.
But...
But...
Things I learned painstakingly, did grudgingly, "studied" and then pressed
others to try to do are all things my kids do without knowing what it is,
without considering that it's "hard" or even has a formal name or particular jargon.
Comparison/contrast: NO PROBLEM
Character analysis? no problem
Plot summary and analysis? no problem
Thematic discussions (and tying back to comparison/contrast and the rest...)
no problem.
They might not know those terms, but if they read them in context they would
understand them.
What they do know is how to discuss lyrics, composition, dialog,
characterization, motive, theme, the effects of music and artistic presentation...
It's "just watching movies" or "just listening to music" to most people, but
it's all the best parts of "language arts" in practice.
Sandra
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