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TV Teaching Guides
The TV Teaching Guides posted on this site were created by the English Proteach Class of 2006 at the University of Florida. These guides were created as Wikis by teams of students. They are based on teaching television as narrative, on genre study, or on characterization (an aspect of narrative that is particularly salient to the serial format of television). If you use these guides or publish work from using the guides, please acknowledge the considerable work that these students have done. The authors of each Wiki have been placed at the beginning of the Wiki. Let us know if you find these useful.
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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 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