Coming to a Classroom Near You: Movie Reviews for Your Content-Area Lesson Plans.

TEACHER education; TEACHING methods; FILM criticism; LESSON planning; POPULAR culture studies; WRITING processes; SOCIAL sciences education; STUDENT teachers

Pre-service teachers from various disciplines undertook a writing assignment in response to an initial prompt related to movie reviews. The movie review genre allowed the student teachers to demonstrate their artistic talents as communicators and writers and enhanced engagement as they applied the activity to planning lessons for their future teaching assignments. This article describes the steps used in the movie review strategy alongside an example lesson plan that illustrates how one pre-service teacher applied the strategy for teaching social studies. Instructors at all levels can use movie reviews to connect academic literacy practices to popular culture in an authentic way. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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