TV Teaching Guides
The TV Teaching Guides at this site can be downloaded by classroom teachers and used without charge. We have a Creative Commons License and ask that you give attribution to the young men and women who wrote these guides for teaching TV. They were all students in the University of Florida English Proteach program. These units were created as a culminating assignment in LAE 6861: Technology and Media Literacy. Students in this course focus on how to use technology and media literacy to enhance student learning. Most of these lessons are focused on secondary classrooms, but some are appropriate for elementary classrooms, too. These units of study could also be used in the new course adopted by the state of Florida in 2004: Literature in the Media.
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Teaching Action Television
(48K)Using the TV action drama 24 to teach genre. -

Teaching Genre through Reality Television
(399K)These students use American Idol to describe the attributes of one subgenre of Reality TV -

Teaching Media Literacy with Sitcoms.zip
(1.5M)In this project English Proteach students create a series of lessons that use the sitcom Friends to teach media and literacy. This is a zip file; it is 1.5 mgs. -

Teaching Police Dramas
(43K)An overview of police dramas as a genre with Law & Order Special Victims' Unit as a teaching example -

Teaching Situation Comedies
(191K)An overview of how to teach situation comedies that uses Seinfeld as an example text. -

Teaching TV Science Fiction
(77K)Narrative and characterization in Smallville -

Teaching Teen Drama
(292K)Characterization in My So-Called Life
