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Pride Prom, 2024 - 016
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Study Guide to The Learning Tree - 3
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why Parks selected certain episodes for filming and omitted others. The movie, for example, does not show Jack Winger\u27s courageous and quiet donation of his own skin to help a badly burned girl; Clint, the hard-drinking brother-in-law whom only Sarah can tame; Jack\u27s passionate speech to the school board. The novel\u27s in-depth characterization of Marcus and his relationship with his father are not so fully explored in the film.
Ask your students to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each medium in presenting the story of THE LEARNING TREE. Which elements are stronger in the book? Which in the movie? Students may mention that Newt\u27s intense preoccupation with death is treated superficially in the film. His bewilderment and sorrow over the loss of Arcella are also not as well defined in the film. But Parks in the film interpretation has enhanced some aspects of his novel. How does his sensitive photographer\u27s eye contribute to the significance of some scenes? What is gained by seeing rather than reading a story? Why did he shoot the sequence of Newt and Arcella walking in the woods in slow motion? Why did he blur the image of Big Mabel? What other scenes are made more memorable by Parks\u27 photographic techniques?
Topics for Composition Imagine that you must advise someone who has the choice of seeing the movie or reading the book. He cannot do both, but he must choose one. Which would you recommend? Support your position In your opinion is THE LEARNING TREE an effective weapon against race prejudice, as Parks maintains it is? Support or refute his position, giving specific examples. Which is a better weapon--the film or the book? Write a review of the film as it might appear in your local newspaper. Discuss episodes which you feel support this view: THE LEARNING TREE is a story not of a black boyhood but of a human boyhood. THE LEARNING TREE: An education for the reader/viewer.https://digitalcommons.pittstate.edu/gparksphotos/1021/thumbnail.jp
Students File into Horace Mann
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Horace Mann Slide 7
No full textHorace Mann as seen from across the street. Cars are parks along the sides of the road in front of it. Labeled R-88https://digitalcommons.pittstate.edu/unihistoryphotos/1240/thumbnail.jp
Yates from Oval, Aerial
No full textBlack and white photograph of Yates Hall and Kelce Planetarium as seen from the Oval. People walk long the sidewalks and the grass lawn where the old gymnasium used to be. In the background [left] is the college bookstore, now Leonard H. Axe Libraryhttps://digitalcommons.pittstate.edu/unihistoryphotos/1259/thumbnail.jp
Yates from the South
No full textBlack and white photograph of Yates Hall and Kelce Planetarium as viewed from the southhttps://digitalcommons.pittstate.edu/unihistoryphotos/1268/thumbnail.jp