This week on Homeschool Highschool Podcast: Cinema Studies for ELA Credit in High School.

Cinema Studies for ELA Credit in High School

When we taught English/Language Arts in homeschool co-op and umbrella school, we had all kinds of teens in our classes. We had teens who LOVED literature and teens who were not fans of reading.

The teens who did not enjoy reading sometimes felt overwhelmed with BOTH reading and literary analysis assignments. They would roll their eyes and say,

“It’s too much, it’s too hard. And it takes me so long just to read ’cause I’m a slow reader and then I have to think about all these things.”

Sabrina thought, “Storytelling is storytelling. And good storytelling is good storytelling. Literature analysis skills can be learned with any good story- even stories on a screen.”

So, so we ended up with Cinema Studies for Literature Learning Full-Year ELA Bundle. One of the cool things about the curriculum is that was so cool is that it leveled the playing field for students in the classroom. Students who loved literature and those who did not, all enjoyed participating in literature analysis because the story was accessible.

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Also, we noticed that the Honors-level teens who were burning themselves out could have a more fun, but still Honors-level course for their transcript!

Cinema Studies for Literature Learning Full-Year ELA curriculum is like all 7Sisters curriculum:

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• No busywork
  
• Adaptable to different levels of rigor, according to your teen’s interest, abilities, and goals
  
• Not boring!
  

Even the included syllabus is a “suggested syllabus” with suggestions for adapting it to different kinds of schedules and different levels of rigor.

Because there’s not ONE right way to homeschool English in high school.

One thing that we get asked all the time is, does this cover like books for the year? And the answer is no. Teens still need to be reading actual reading material. That’s why the Cinema Studies for Literature Learning ELA Bundle includes several fun books.

However, most of the Bundle is movies! In fact, this thirty-two week, two semester curriculum will cover fifteen different movies.

The way the Cinema Guides work for students

Teens will watch the movie. Then, they will watch it again (not the same day) with their cinema studies guide.

In that second viewing, students discover that they can get hold of the ideas and richness of the story. The real literature analysis begins and makes the movie so much more meaningful. Finally, students finish up their guides with any additional activities listed in the guide.

How Cinema Studies for Literature Learning Bundle work when you purchase it

Here are steps for parents when you purchase the bundle:

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2. When you make your purchase, on your transaction screen you will see links to download the five files that are a part of this bundle.
   
3. Go ahead and download each of those files by clicking on it and saving it somewhere where you can find it on your computer later in your downloads or on your desktop.
   
4. One of the files contains a zip file. When you open it, you will find all of the literature study guides for the books and movies in this bundle.
   
5. Another file that is all of the answer keys for parents to use for ease of grading.
   
6. There is a file for the writing and public-speaking guides. This includes guides for the research paper, essay writing, poetry writing, short story/family narrative, and public speaking guides it.
   
7. Another file contains parent and introductory information to go over with your teen.
   
8. Lastly there is a file containing the suggested syllabus.
   
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   2. Note: the syllabus can be used in the order that we have suggested, but that is up to you. After all, there’s not ONE right way to homeschool!
      
   
   
   

One note for parents

One final thought is that these are movies. Just like books, every parent needs to decide what movie is a good fit for their family. It’s okay if there are movies in there that you say, “I don’t want my kid to watch this.”

That’s a really good choice that you need to make for your family. You should not just assume that these are all gonna be a good fit because 7Sisters chose them. If there are movies that you are unfamiliar with, just do a IMDB search and see if it will be a good fit.

And so the decision of when to expose them to those things in literature as a very personal decision, and that is up to each parent. So I just encourage you to, to take, take point on that and make sure that you’re, that you’re feeling comfortable with everything on the list. Why we’re homeschooling to do what’s best for our kids and our.

So, if your teen needs something a little bit different for English/Language Arts and you want to give something with movies a try, Cinema Studies for Literature Learning ELA Bundle would be a wonderful thing!

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