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Monday, 8 June 2020

Monday, 6 April 2020

What's Going On | Playing For Change | Song Around The World

What's Going On | Playing For Change

| Song Around The World

Monday, 30 March 2020

All Along The Watchtower | Playing For Change | Song Around The World

Monday, 17 February 2020

Podcast Describing People

INSTRUCTIONS:

Download the pdf file and the sound clip.

You can then listen to and read the material on the device of your choice.

Or perhaps you can listen to the podcast during the

"wasted time periods during the day."

Example: When you are driving in your car

waiting for an appointment or at the supermarket queue.

Monday, 10 February 2020

Gimme Shelter | Playing For Change | Song Around The World

Gimme Shelter | Playing For Change |

Song Around The World

Tuesday, 21 January 2020

Glory - from the soundtrack of Selma

Glory

And the performance at the Academy Awards

The Selma to Montgomery marches were three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile (87 km) highway from Selma, Alabama to the state capital of Montgomery. The marches were organized by nonviolent activists to demonstrate the desire of African American citizens to exercise their constitutional right to vote, in defiance of segregationist repression; they were part of a broader voting rights movement underway in Selma and throughout the American South. By highlighting racial injustice, they contributed to passage that year of the Voting Rights Act, a landmark federal achievement of the civil rights movement.

The song, written for the soundtrack of the Film "Selma" is outstanding any way you look at it. Inspirational, motivational and emotional, the song is one of the best of the best.

Monday, 30 December 2019

Everything-Michael Buble Lyrics.

Monday, 16 December 2019

"A Song for You" Lyric Video

Monday, 9 December 2019

Maroon 5 - Girls Like You ft. Cardi B

Monday, 2 December 2019

Lennon and Maisey

https://youtu.be/Ib3CMvoFyCs

Sunday, 24 November 2019

Why do humans have a third eyelid?

Why do humans have a third eyelid?
By Dorsa Amin, directed by Avi Ofer
You know that little pink thing nestled in the corner of your eye? It's actually the remnant of a third eyelid. In humans, it's vestigial, meaning it no longer serves its original purpose. There are several other vestigial structures in the human body, quietly riding along from one of our ancestor species to the next. But why have they stuck around for so long? Dorsa Amir investigates.
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Wednesday, 20 November 2019

Podcast : Describing People

INSTRUCTIONS:

Download the pdf file and the sound clip.

You can then listen to and read the material on the device of your choice.

Or perhaps you can listen to the podcast during the

"wasted time periods during the day."

Example: When you are driving in your car

waiting for an appointment or at the supermarket queue.

Monday, 18 November 2019

Shawn Mendes, Camila Cabello - Señorita (Lyrics)

Saturday, 16 November 2019

Blade runner 1982: How accurate was it?

'Blade Runner' Was Set In November 2019. So How Close Have We Come To That Prediction Of Our Future?

Friday, 15 November 2019

John Donne - Death be not proud

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Fwd: SPECIAL NEWSLETTER FROM TWM

Suggest that your students, grades 7 - 12, see the movie Harriet - now in theaters. We are preparing a Learning Guide to the film which will be completed by Thursday, November 7. The first two sections of the Guide discuss the importance of this story to the history of America for the period 1849 - 1865.

Description:

Harriet Tubman was without doubt one of America's greatest heroes. Her courage, ingenuity, and tenacity enabled her to escape from slavery in 1849. She then became a conductor for the Underground Railroad. With a price on her head and facing certain torture and death if she were caught, Harriet Tubman went back into the South 13 times freeing the rest of her family and many other slaves. It is estimated that she shepherded some 70 slaves to freedom.

This film is well-grounded historical fiction, giving a sense of the times and providing a reasonably accurate portrayal of the almost super-human exploits of its heroine.

Benefits of the Movie:

Not only does Harriet tell the story a black female role model, it also demonstrates the humanitarian vision of hundreds of thousands of Americans, black and white, who worked to end slavery. It is accurate to call slavery the original sin of the United States. However, it is also true that before and during the Civil War Americans by the hundreds of thousands put their lives and livelihoods at risk to eradicate this great evil. They did this with no thought of reward but in the hope of redeeming the promise of the Declaration of Independence and the soul of the country itself. (Can anyone imagine the U.S. playing its role in WW I, WW II, and the Cold War if slavery had still existed?) While it is a tragedy that the hopes of African-Americans for equality were frustrated by the hundred years of Jim Crow and the continuing discrimination suffered by some black Americans must be rooted out and extirpated, the idealism and sacrifice of those who worked to end slavery is an important chapter in American history. Harriet Tubman was one of the foremost of those brave women and men whose moral vision and humanitarian spirit inspired them to fight for the end of slavery.

TeachwithMovies.org, November, 2019.