Mr. Shaw's Classes
  • Film
    • Student Films
    • Original Film
    • Earth
    • Winged Migration
    • More Than Honey
    • More Than a Game
    • Medora
    • When We Were Kings
    • A Small Act
    • Spellbound
    • Miss Representation
    • Wasteland
    • Expedition to the End of the World
    • The Fog of War
    • Inside Job
    • 20 Feet From Stardom
    • Throw Down Your Heart
    • Searching for Sugarman
    • No Impact Man
    • Food, Inc.
  • 9A
    • Helpful Words
    • Short Stories
    • The Odyssey
    • Beowulf
    • Final Exam
  • 9B
    • Night
    • Grammar & Poetry
    • Helpful Words
    • Research Paper
    • To Kill a Mockingbird
    • Romeo & Juliet
    • Final Exam
  • Envision U2
    • Project Based Learning
    • Khan Academy
    • Reading
    • Essay
  • 11 LIT
    • Into the Wild >
      • Inner Outer Circle >
        • Preparation
        • Nature / Society
        • Travels
        • Family
        • Maturity?
        • Stampede Trail
        • Rhetorical Analysis
    • 396 In Cold Blood
    • 343 In Cold Blood 5th Hour
    • 234 Catcher in the Rye 3rd Hour
    • Station Eleven
    • Transcendentalism
    • Frankenstein
    • Huck Finn
    • New Year's Resolutions
    • Spoon River Anthology
  • 11 COMP
    • Helpful Words
    • The Form of the Essay
    • Illustration
    • Narration
    • Process Analysis
    • Description
    • Definition
    • Cause & Effect
    • Rhetoric & Research
    • Comparison & Contrast
    • Division & Classification
    • Final Exam
  • AP
    • Summer 2018 Blog
    • Rhetorical Analysis
    • Education
    • Work
    • Brother, I'm Dying
    • Blue Highways
    • Politics
    • In Cold Blood
    • Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
    • Walden
    • Eats, Shoots & Leaves
    • The Form of the Essay >
      • Helpful Words & Concepts
      • Illustration
      • Narration
      • Description
      • Process Analysis
      • Definition
      • Division & Classification
      • Compare & Contrast
      • Cause & Effect
      • Argument
    • 30-Second Commercials
    • Persuasion
    • Independent Non-Fiction
    • Independent Non-Fiction #2
    • Room for Debate
    • Writing Workshop
    • Ramping UP
    • Tribe
  • Interact
  • 12A
    • Helpful Words
    • Personal Narrative
    • This I Believe
    • Compelling Voices
    • Persepolis
    • The Things They Carried
    • The Alchemist
    • Alchemist Blog
  • 12B
    • Native American Literature
    • 1984
    • Dickinson, Collins, & Whitman
    • The Canterbury Tales
    • The Crucible
  • CW
    • Short Story

Essential Questions for Winged Migration:

  1. How is the movie organized?
  2. What different camera points of view are used in this movie?  What is the effect of each?
  3. What does the motif of human interference reveal about a theme?
  4. What is the theme of this movie?
  5. How does the aesthetic appeal of the movie contribute to the overall effect?
  6. For your chosen bird, report on all of the following categories: characteristics, habitats, feeding habits, reproduction, migration details, bird watching, and at least one or two things you learned when you visited the links.
  7. What is the effect of the sparse narration?
  8. What is our responsibility, if any, to nature?

Preview:

Read through and discuss this information on the “Winged Migration” webpage:  
  1. “The Production"
  2. “Countries and Birds"
  3. “Migration Patterns”  ​

Film Terms:

Motif = a recurring element (text, image, setting) which symbolizes a topic. Essentially, a motif is a medium through which a narrative theme is conveyed.

Juxtaposition = the contiguous positioning of either two images, characters, objects, or two scenes in sequence, in order to compare and contrast them, or establish a relationship between them.

Picture

Journals

Please complete Part 2 of 4 Nature journals.
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