Weeks+17-18+Focus+on+Visual+Literacy+It's+more+than+advertisements,+paintings+and+photographs

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Required Reading/Viewing:
 * [|Nora Ephron "The Boston Photographs]"
 * [|Visual Literacy]
 * [|Visual Literacy quick overview]
 * Visual Literacy Questions to Ask
 * [|How to Read a Photograph Template]
 * [|How to Read A Photograph]
 * [|How to Read a Painting]
 * [|How to Analyze Art]
 * [|How to Read a Political Cartoon]
 * [|How to Write a Response to Visual Images]
 * [|US Holocaust Museum: Propaganda Exhibit]

Reading Images A beginning list of a few websites where you can practice reading visuals rhetorically as well as view documentaries.

[|MSNBC Multimedia Images] [|Rhetoric and the World of Advertising]

Supplemental Reading/Viewing: Pattern, Symmetry, Set design, Costumes, Lighting, Color, Story, Argumentation?
 * TED [|Ways of Seeing]
 * TED [|The Power of Cartoons]
 * [|TED talk telling story through Emoticons]
 * [|Torvill and Dean Gold Medal Ice Dancing Performance 1984 Olympics]
 * [|Addiction]
 * [|Introductory Dance Lesson from Swing Time (Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers)]
 * [|Top Hat and Tails from Top Hat] (Fred Astaire)
 * [|Cheek to Cheek from Top Hat] (Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers)
 * [|Fred and Ginger on Roller Skates]cause you know dancin's not hard enough . ..
 * [|Fred Astaire famous ceiling dance from Royal Wedding (the audio is terrible)] Check this out--before CGI and //Inception//
 * [|Cyd Charisse and Fred Astaire in The Band Wagon]
 * [|Now Add Props]...Fred dances with firecrackers, a drum set, a coat rack, a golf club, and a piano...really
 * Excerpts from Singin' in the Rain
 * [|Cell Block Tango from Chicago the movie (Catherine Zeta-Jones)]
 * [|The Disney Cell Block Tango] (compare with previous)
 * [|I Got Rhythm from An American in Paris (Gene Kelly)]
 * [|from It's Always Fair Weather (Gene Kelly tap dances on roller skate)s]
 * [|from It's Always Fair Weather (Gene Kelly taps with trash can lid)s]
 * [|Puttin' on the Ritz (Fred Astaire])
 * [|Say it with Firecrackers from Holiday Inn (Fred Astaire)]

Images to Write About


 * [[image:http://courseweb.hopkins.k12.mn.us/pix/spacer.gif width="20" height="12"]] [[image:http://courseweb.hopkins.k12.mn.us/pix/f/web.gif link="http://courseweb.hopkins.k12.mn.us/mod/resource/view.php?id=36739"]][| Great Image Site - Getty Images] [| file]


 * [[image:http://courseweb.hopkins.k12.mn.us/pix/spacer.gif width="20" height="12"]] [[image:http://courseweb.hopkins.k12.mn.us/mod/resource/icon.gif link="http://courseweb.hopkins.k12.mn.us/mod/resource/view.php?id=24936"]][| Websites for Political Cartoons] [| Resource]