txt 2 wrld 4-eva: cultural literacy connections grade 12 core assessment ii: sample film and fine...

Txt 2 Wrld 4-Eva:cultural literacy connections

Grade 12 Core Assessment II: Sample Film and Fine Art for use with Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were

Watching God

CONTEMPORARY FILM SAMPLES

From this list or on your own, select an apt film for relevant text connections.

Julie Taymor’s Across the Universe (2007)

George Lucas’s American Graffiti (1973)

Tamra Davis’sBilly Madison (1995)

John Lee Hancock’sThe Blind Side (2009)

Emile Ardolino’s Dirty Dancing (1987)

Steven Spielberg’s The Color Purple (1985)

Gus van Sant’s Finding Forrester (2000)

George Zemeckis’sForrest Gump (1994)

Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (2003)

Richard Donner’s The Goonies (1985)

Joel Cohen’s Raising Arizona (1987)

Boaz Yakin’s Remember the Titans (2000)

Richard Marquand’s Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (1983)

Thomas McCarthy’s The Visitor (2007)

Steve Miner’s Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken (1991)

Ron Howard’s Willow (1988)

CONTEMPORARY FINE ART SAMPLES

From this list or on your own, select an apt piece for relevant text connections.

Bonnard’s The Bath

Casorati’s Silvana Cenni

Chagall’s Birthday

Colescott’s Les Demoiselles d'Alabama

de Carava’s Shirley Embracing Sam

de Kooning’s Woman and Bicycle

de Saint-Phalle Black Venus

Derain Turning Road

Donaldson’s Take Away No. 2

Duchamp Bicycle Wheel

Gauguin Spirit of the Dead Watching

Gorky’s The Betrothal

Holzer’s The Survival Series : Protect Me from What I Want

Kahlo’s Self-Portrait on the American Border

Katz’s Blue Umbrella

Klimt’s Fulfillment

Kunc’s Venus

Larionov’s Portait of a Woman

Lawrence’sThe Migration of the Negro

Leger’s Les Loisirs Hommage a Louis David

Lichtenstein’s Hopeless

Magritte’s The False Mirror

Magritte’s The Human Condition

Maillol’s The River

Mapplethorpe’s Ajito

Mashirir’s Reading the Standard

Matta-Clark’sSplitting

Motswai’s Layalo at home from Rockville

Pepper’s Cromlech Glen

Picasso’s Les Demoiselles

Ray’s Observatory Tome– The Lovers

Reed’s No

Rousseau’s The Carnival Evening

Russolo’s Perfume

Simpson’s Guarded Conditions

Siopis’ Cape of Good Hope

Smithson’s Spiral Jetty

Steichen’sGloria Swanson

Wojnarowicz’s Untitled

Wood’s American Gothic