Tool #8: Video Resources

I really like using videos in my classroom because it's a great way for my students to experience something in a way that is more like first-hand than reading about it or hearing about it from me.

This video would be great to use before reading Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata. The book's main setting is the Japanese Tea Ceremony, and this video gives a good idea of what a tea ceremony should be like (instead of how the characters us it in the novel).

Also, as much as I would like Margaret Atwood to visit my classroom and talk to my students about The Handmaid's Tale, we all know that isn't going to happen (an English teacher can dream, can't she?).

Here is a clip of Margaret Atwood talking about the universal myth:

Not quite as good as actually talking to her, I know. But it's as close as my class is going to get right now.