Message from zskalkottas

[Anonymous]

I've taught Hwang Sunwan’s short story “Cranes" in the past and I'm now thinking of teaching it and following it with the movie, or at least a clip from the movie, that we saw at Saturday's seminar with two brothers on either side of the demilitarized zone in Korea--unfortunately, I don't remember the name and couldn't find it in the materials we were given that day.

Short stories are good for teaching narrative, plot devices, conflict, characterization, point of view and film could be used simply to compare the treatment of all of the above in a different genre. I don't have the language arts standards in front of me, but I know there is one about comparing genres and the effectiveness of different genres. The story and film could be further supplemented with a news report or article. In yesterday's class someone mentioned the Smithsonian archive of photos--that could be another way of bringing in different genres and comparing--the photos could perhaps function as a Into leading up to reading the story.

Something similar could be done with one of the Chinese stories/books Professor Dube mentioned that were adapted to film-one that caught my attention was Rickshaw Boy.