Summer Reading Recap
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American Masters
American Masters, public television’s award-winning biography series, brings unique originality and perspective to exploring the lives and illuminating the creative journeys of our most enduring writers, musicians, visual and performing artists, dramatists and filmmakers – those who have left an indelible impression on our nation’s cultural landscape. This collection offers you access to classroom-ready videos and articles drawn from the Series broadcasts and website.
Hemingway: The Man versus The Image
Hemingway: The Man versus The Image. Learn about Ernest Hemingway’s public persona and how it differed from the actual life of the writer in these videos from theAmerican Masters film Ernest Hemingway: Rivers to the Sea. Using video, text, and text-dependent discussion questions, students will better understand how Hemingway’s vulnerability fit within his heroic lifestyle.
Life Imitates Art | The Great Gatsby
Life Imitates Art | The Great Gatsby. This media gallery from the American Masters film F. Scott Fitzgerald: Winter Dreamsexplores how F. Scott Fitzgerald’s work mirrored events in his life. Using video, discussion questions, organizers, and essays, students will take a deep dive into what may have motivated Fitzgerald’s writing.
The Impact of WWII on J.D. Salinger
Great Expectations 1: Setting the Scene
Great Expectations 1: Setting the Scene. This video excerpt is the opening scene from the 2012 MASTERPIECE adaptation of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations. A man mysteriously emerges from a marsh to ominous music. A young boy, Pip, is shown briefly in a church graveyard, reading the sad gravestone of his parents and five brothers and sisters. Suddenly frightened, Pip runs off, but not to safety. Instead, he goes towards the marsh, right into the path of the hulking escaped convict Abel Magwitch, who is coated with grime and mud. Magwitch grabs Pip. "Scream again," Magwitch says to Pip, "and I’ll cut your throat."