Inquiry Based Literacy

Students learn how to formulate relevant, self-generated questions based on interests and/or needs that can be investigated.
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow | Artopia

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High Voltage Theater A Closer Look In the scene from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow in our video clip, the main character, the pretentious schoolteacher Ichabod Crane, is engaged in a swordfight with...
Spider-Man | Artopia

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The Peril of Doc Ock (2004) A CLOSER LOOK Some words of wisdom from the makers, SPITE YOUR FACE PRODUCTIONS. Tim : Really, the best way to learn animation is to just play around until it looks good...
Danza del Venado | Artopia

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A Closer Look The Danza del Venado tells a story. At first the deer is alone, happily grazing in the forest. When our video clip begins, hunters appear and the deer fights for his life. Watch the...
Nosferatu | Artopia

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A Symphony of Horrors (1922) A Closer Look F.W. Murnau shot much of Nosferatu on location in the Carpathian Mountains of Romania, using real landscapes and towns and an actual castle. This was unusual...
Felix the Cat | Artopia

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The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg (1936) A Closer Look Animation is a series of stills that fool the eye into thinking it sees movement. The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg is a cel animation...
Love | Artopia

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A Closer Look Comedy is sometimes funnier if you can't see everything. Filmmaker Lynn Cornfoot uses off-screen action to increase the comic effect in her film Love . We can only imagine what the Wife...
Dance of the Warriors | Artopia

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A Closer Look This dance is part of a film in the Let's Dance series called Nougzar in Georgia . Nougzar and Guiorgui are best friends who love Georgian folk dancing. Georgian male dancers are the...
Peg Leg Bates | Artopia

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A Closer Look Peg Leg Bates could leap five feet in the air and perform almost every known tap dance step. He never considered himself handicapped. "God showed me what to do with one leg," he said....
Suspended Falls | Artopia

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A Closer Look A waterfall flows, but it also leaps and rolls and turns. It breaks apart and comes back together and it is made up of many drops of water. As the Power Company dancers perform Suspended...