Unit Eight: The Culture of Cinema

1. Defining Terms
   • The Vocabulary of Cinema:
     origin of the words that describe cinema
   • Elements of the dramatic arts:
     plot, character, setting, structure, theme
     
     
2. Understanding American values through its greatest movies:
   Language arts activities in usage, vocabulary, reading, writing,
   dramatic improvisation, pronunciation practice and discussion topics about the historic events of the times included in the study of…
   
   
   • The Fifties: Changing values & the generation gap
     • On the Waterfront
     • Rebel Without a Cause
       
       
   • The Sixties: Racial/social confrontation
     • To Kill a Mockingbird
     • West Side Story
       
       
   • The Seventies: The Underdog as American hero
     • Rocky
     • Saturday Night Fever
       
       
   • The Eighties: American artists’ (directors’) personal vision
     • E.T.
     • Platoon
       
       
   • The Nineties: Looking back – Historical perspectives
     • Dances with Wolves
     • Forrest Gump
       
       
3. Words, Words, Words. Unit Eight Vocabulary List
   • Sentence building
   • Word Structure: Prefixes, Roots, Suffixes