Showing my AP US History kids Ken Burns' civil war....

[liberalitch]

they're "Hip-mo-tized"
Good stuff!

[MrModerate]

1. Just re-watched that series myself . . .

Some filmakers just have "the gift."

[harlinchi]

2. Each segment's introductions was haunting.

I particularly liked the 'Bottom rail on top, now, massa!' segment. The poetry and the ability of even private soldiers to compose well-written, full-of-emotion letters to their loved ones spoke to me.

[Pirate Smile]

3. Did they ever get to see "Eyes on the Prize"? Isn't that documentary

series now practically impossible to get because of copyright issues?

I hope they figure the copyright issues out because that is a show every kid needs to see. Many adults need to see it also.

I wish they would replay it over a couple of weeks on PBS.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

6. Especially Part Two

which really points up how much we lost in 1968 when Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy were assassinated within 2 months of each other.

That was the year things started to go sour in this country.

[liberalitch]

8. I ALWAYS show part one.....

Emmett Till, Rosa Parks, Brown Vs. Board, Central High
All the things that started it off

[liberalitch]

7. I show parts of that. I wish I could show all of both serise...

Both according to NCLB I have to move a lot faster than that

[Pirate Smile]

9. What reactions do you get? Are some just shocked because they

had no idea or do they already know all about it?

[liberalitch]

11. They are revolted by the brutality of man's inhumanity to man...

both in the "Civil War" and "Eyes on the Prize"
.... those are the AP kids.
The average kids..... could care less.
They want me to turn the DVD off and put it on BET

[Old Smokey]

4. good stuff

best civil war doccumentary ever.

[ncrainbowgrrl]

5. I agree! Oh- and Welcome to DU, Old Smokey!

:hi:

[Metta]

10. Show them the one on the American west.

That'll open their eyes, too.

[liberalitch]

12. I have showed them the La. Purchase part.....

they dig it.

[Metta]

13. Good going. What about the ones on jazz or baseball?

Or is that too much of a stretch?

[liberalitch]

15. The baseball one is one I haven't seen all of....

But I do show them the Harlem Renaissance portion of the Jazz one.

[Metta]

17. Neat. I hope you planted the seed

which will, someday, bear sweet fruit. Thanks for helping to bring the next generation along. :toast:

[lpbk2713]

14. I really liked the late Shelby Foote's commentaries.

He spoke almost as though he had been an eyewitness to the events of which he spoke.

[liberalitch]

16. Barbara fields in one of my favorite non-fiction writers too...

...and she's in it a lot.