16 Mm Movies Poem by Michael Pruchnicki

16 Mm Movies

Rating: 1.6


One summer I taught with a guy fixated on flicks
I mean those 16mm films teachers used
to get away from textbooks

He said that was one way to motivate students
to pay attention to teachers doing their thing
at the green slate chalkboard

Show the movie in a darkened classroom
shades down to shut out summer sunlight
and they would learn

I guess they did learn and so did I; at summer's end
they were all caught up on naptime
and I was bored out of my mind!

Beware the pedagogue with a new trick
up his wrinkled sleeve!

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Raj Arumugam 21 June 2009

wonderful insight into the role of film in the classroom, Michael...all things (well, mostly) are good within certain limits...

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Aaron Tate 07 July 2008

Those things are the only thing more borning than a text book with no examples.

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Daniel Wheeler 31 March 2008

Not your best, but not your worst, and lastly, not bad.

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