Lesson Plan
Grades 6-8
Grades 9-10
Grades 11-12

Our Time Machine: Memory, Story, and Connection Extensions

Extensions

Interview teachers and administrators about how decisions are made about what students will read in required English/Language Arts classes at each grade level (the school’s “canon”).

Read an autobiography or autobiographical fiction and explore it’s universal themes and/or connect the discussion of Our Time Machine to books you have read previously.

Our Time Machine begins with this H.G. Wells quote: “We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories…And those that carry us forward, are dreams.” Discuss as an introduction to reading the H.G. Wells novel, The Time Machine.

Build your own representation of a time machine.

Research what scientists currently know about Alzheimer’s causes and treatments.

Discuss how Maleoon’s art challenges or confirms stereotypes or mainstream media portrayals of China.

Sources

About the author:

Faith Rogow

Faith Rogow, Ph.D., is the co-author of The Teacher's Guide to Media Literacy: Critical Thinking in a Multimedia World (Corwin, 2012) and past president of the National Association for Media Literacy Education. She has written discussion guides and lesson plans for more than 250 independent films.

Faith Rogow