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It's been 38 years since Back to the Future was released in movie theaters on July 3, 1985, and now its devoted fanbase is sharing their favorite memories. Back to The Future changed the time travel movie genre forever. The best time travel movies of all time.
StarringMichael J. Foxas Marty McFly andChristopher Lloydas Doc Brown, the time-traveling duo wowed audiences inBack to the Future, eventuallyspawning two more movies to end the trilogy and and became one of the best movie series of all time.
It's the type of movie that's hard to resist whenever you see it running on basic cable, which has helped keep its appeal all these years later. So it's only fitting that the 38th anniversary ofBack to the Future's release fans give the film the appreciation it deserves.
Directed by Robert Zemekis and written by him and his producing partner Bob Gale, Back To The Future tells the story of Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox), an average teenager from Hill Valley, California.
In those adolescent dreams he also finds a mentor in an eccentric scientist, Dr. Emmet Brown (Christopher Lloyd). The doctor’s latest creation is a time machine installed in a DeLorean automobile. And Marty accidentally travels in a time-traveling to November 4, 1955. The date Doc conceived of time travel, having the revelation of the flux capacitor.
Seven years ago.Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd reprise their iconic characters from "Back To The Future" for a very special appearance on a show...
Education : Science-fiction
As I wrote before, science-fiction gives the students the power of magic through science and literature
A narration let us know something. It tells us what happened. It tell us a story. Our students love hear or watch stories. And they love wonder and imagination.
It provides the necessary information to understand the educational benefits of digital resources and fictional worlds learning how to use them as educational and motivational resources.
Just in time to celebrate the 38th Anniversary of one of the most beloved movie trilogies of all time.
Back to Future 30th Anniversary Edition (renewed)
Telltale Games
Game:
Back to the Future: The Game, a Telltale Games Classic, was available* to download, or buy on-disc on Xbox 360, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 for the very first time to celebrate the 30th anniversary!
The game was discontinued on 2018. However. it's available for play station 4, play station 3, and Nintendo Wii on Amazon (renewed).
Summer is here ! Wow, so good ! Sunny days and beach time! There was a beautiful super moon known also as Buck moon rised last 3 July. Perhaps you enjoyed to watch the moon, visible for three days.
The Buck moon
via Farmer's Almanac
My usual readers, young teachers and students from every where are on holiday. Not all! I write few publications on this time of the year.
Hope you enjoyed these pedagogical proposals published in June. May be you will include some of them into your lessons, next school back-time? I will be happy!
"Seventy-five years ago, the 100th and 322nd divisions of the Soviet Army’s “1st Ukrainian Front” reached the Nazi concentration and extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, whose very name symbolizes the barbarism of the killing centres and concentration camps (...)
Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of UNESCO, message
The Holocaust profoundly affected countries in which Nazi crimes were perpetrated, but also had universal implications and consequences in many other parts of the world.
Exhibition: Seeing Auschwitz
credits: Katia Pizzi
@KatiaPORT
Education:
Educational approaches to the History of Auschwitz, ways to sustain the interest of new generations and raise awareness of its relevance in addressing contemporary issues is an important issue to teach in schools curricula.
UNESCO recognizes that teaching about the History of the Holocaust is fundamental to establishing respect for human rights, basic freedoms and the values of tolerance and mutual respect.
Two exhibitions linked to the site of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the history of the Holocaust, and related research are displayed at UNESCO Headquarters offered visitors new perspectives on approaching the history of the Holocaust:
Exhibition: Crimes Uncovered: The First Generation of Holocaust Researchers
The first exhibition "Crimes Uncovered: The First Generation of Holocaust Researchers", developed by the Wiener Holocaust Library, the House of the Wannsee Conference and Touro College Berlin focuses on the beginnings of Holocaust research starting with the first courageous individuals who documented the Nazi crimes at the time of the Second World War.
The second "Seeing Auschwitz", conceived by Musealia and the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial specifically for UNESCO and United Nations Headquarters, invites visitors to take a closer look at photographs of Auschwitz-Birkenau and those who perished there.
Both exhibitions remain on show at UNESCO Headquarters until 5 February 2020.
School visits: If you teach in Paris or near by, don't miss a school visit with your students. Do you want a better lesson? Authentic documents, photos, videos, and other staff.
Almost one million men, women and children were killed there because they were Jewish mostly as soon as they arrived. In total, Nazis murdered 1,100,000 people at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Video:
I wrote several posts on this blog. Teachers and students will find:
Reading the diary of a person muddling through that history is jarringly different, more like the confusing experience of actually living it. In real time, people are slow to recognize events taking place around them, because they have other priorities; because these events happen invisibly; because changes are incremental and people keep on recalibrating.
The shock of Renia’s diary is watching a teenage girl with the standard preoccupations—friends, family, schoolwork, boyfriend—come to an inescapable awareness of the violence that is engulfing her.
A replica of Anne Frank's Diary is displayed
at the Indianapolis Children's Museum in Indianapolis
Michael Conroy/APvia nprEd
You know Anne Frank's Diary of course. A Diary is an interesting part of the Narrative text. Students love to read a diary written by young people.
The Diary of Anne Frankis at once exceedingly special and totally normal. Her circumstances, her writing skill, and her insight make the diary extraordinary.
How do a diary helps us teach about this special narrative text ? Let's know a new diary written for another young girl. Renia Spiegal!
The long-hidden diary of a young Polish woman's life during the Holocaust, translated for the first time into English.
Hidden for 70 years, a new invaluable contribution to Holocaust literature, the Renia's Diarywas rediscovered inside a desk in New York (2018).
The shock of Renia’s Diary is watching a teenage girl with the standard preoccupations - friends, family, schoolwork, boyfriend - come to an inescapable awareness of the violence that is engulfing her.
Renia Spiegel was born in 1924 to an upper-middle class Jewish family living in southeastern Poland, near what was at that time the border with Romania. At the start of 1939 Renia began a diary.
“I just want a friend. I want somebody to talk to about my everyday worries and joys. Somebody who would feel what I feel, who would believe me, who would never reveal my secrets. A human being can never be such a friend and that’s why I have decided to look for a confidant in the form of a diary.”
And so begins an extraordinary document of an adolescent girl’s hopes and dreams. By the fall of 1939, Renia and her younger sister Elizabeth (née Ariana) were staying with their grandparents in Przemysl, a city in the south, just as the German and Soviet armies invaded Poland. Cut off from their mother, who was in Warsaw, Renia and her family were plunged into war. Read some notes here
Some thoughts:
Diarists are among the most honest writers you'll ever know! Very few lies exist in a diary that carries the expectation of being private forever.
Also, a diary is written in a way that is characteristic of an era. One can learn about speech patterns, syntax, and changes in language from reading a diary.
Teachers will develop some good projects and activities with your students. They love History and Literature.
You don't have to do it in a week. Give some time to your lessons to really help your students to understand the values of human rights and never accept horrendus historic facts to be repeated.
"Understanding our history connects us to the essential human values of truth, respect, justice and compassion." António Guterres, UN Secretary-General
