Return-Path: <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id i1B1X5I15965; Tue, 10 Feb 2004 20:33:05 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 20:33:05 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <147.21df5f86.2d5adfd7@aol.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Sandees32605@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ESL:9887] Re: Black History Month X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Mac sub 28 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Status: O Content-Length: 1237 Lines: 32 In a message dated 2/10/04 6:56:55 PM, ayw@georgetown.edu writes: << any creative adult ESL lessons related to Black History Month? >> Perhaps it's not all that creative, but I reserve the video 'Long Walk Home' from the school library and show parts of it in class. This film, starring Whoopie Goldberg and Sissy Spivack, is set during the Montgomery bus boycott and tells that story thru the eyes of a child, witnessing what happens to the relationship between her white middle-class mother and her black working-class maid/nanny. It's a powerful film, just last week rated by one film critic on the TV history channel as the best historical film of the last 50 years. So many newcomers to the US are baffled by racial tensions here, by race relationships, by the prejudices they encounter. The closed-captioned video provides an easy-to-understand glimpse of our history. Our ELL students are at first stunned by what they view - and then angry - and finally moved - some to tears. Because so many students ask where/when they can see the full video, teachers are prepared with public library reserve forms for them to fill out. Looking forward to other ideas. Sue Sandeen ESOL, Gainesville, FL USA
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