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ERIC Number: EJ418053
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1990
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ISSN: ISSN-0013-8274
Making Constellations: Teaching Students to Write about Films.
Hansbarger, Julian Clark
English Journal, v79 n7 p47-51 Nov 1990
Describes a high school advanced composition course which uses films and the metaphor of stellar constellations (a writer finding or imposing order and meaning in a chaos of ideas). Notes that most students understood this approach to criticism by the end of the course. (RS)
Descriptors: Films, High Schools, Teaching Methods, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction, Writing Strategies
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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