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ITV Highlights: Week of May 10, 2008
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GUIDANCE | LANGUAGE ARTS | PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT | SCIENCE | SOCIAL STUDIES | SPECIAL EDUCATION
GUIDANCE
In the Mix - #505 Living With…
MPT's K-12 ITV Service: Middle/high school
Friday, May 16, 2008 (5-5:30 am)
This program addresses the most critical issues and problems concerning school, friends and family that challenge young people who are coping with serious and/or chronic conditions.
Foster Care Stories: A Place to Be
Thursday, May 15, 2008 08:30 PM
Children tell their stories about the challenges of living in foster care, but also recall how finding the right foster family can make a meaningful difference in their lives.
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LANGUAGE ARTS
Famous Authors - #101-107
MPT's K-12 ITV Service: Middle/high school
Wednesday, May 7, 2008 (2-5:30 am)
Cross-curricula in nature, this series offers an examination of the author and their work. This week’s authors are: Shakespeare, George Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Sir Walter Scott, Defoe, Samuel Johnson, and Dickens.
Masterpiece
"Carrie's War" (#3608)
Sunday, May 11, 2008 10:00 PM
"Carrie's War" is an adaptation of Nina Bawden's international bestseller, a coming of age tale that has kept generations of children enthralled since its first publication in 1975. The novel is about the WWII evacuation of a girl and her brother from London to a very strict family in Wales, and stars Pauline Quirke.
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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Learning Math: Geometry
MPT's K-12 ITV Service: Elementary/middle school
Saturday, May 17, 2008 (2-5:30 am)
This professional development series explores the properties of geometric figures; make constructions using pencil and paper, and also using dynamic software; and practice using mathematical language to express ideas and justify your reasoning. Some important geometric ideas, such as symmetry, similarity, and trigonometry, will also be examined.
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SCIENCE
What's in the News: Space - #111 & 112
MPT's K-12 ITV Service: Elementary/middle school
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 (2-2:30 am)
The series provides interesting information about the space sciences and their applications as relevant and important human activities in an historical context.
Passport to Knowledge - #119 Following the Water
MPT's K-12 ITV Service: Elementary/middle/high school
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 (2:30-3:30 am)
This special is the story of why America went to Mars, and what both rovers found. This is a close-up portrait of 21st century science at work. NASA's rover mission has rewritten the history of Mars. For the first time on a planet beyond Earth, Spirit and Opportunity have found environments shaped by liquid water, places that could, perhaps, once have supported life.
Explore More - #1-4
MPT's K-12 ITV Service: Middle/high school
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 (3:30-5:30 am)
Each fast-paced program incorporates expert interviews, meaningful 3D modeling and animation, and an engaging young host. Topics include: genetic engineering, the future of energy, working landscapes, and water quality.
Nature
"Prince of the Alps" (#2513)
Sunday, May 11, 7:00 PM, Monday May 12, 3:00 am
High in the Austrian Alps, a female red deer, a leader in her herd, gives birth to a calf. Her status makes him a prince among the other calves. The two are at the center of a wilderness story that features not only the wild alpine herds of majestic red deer, but also a variety of other wildlife that lives in the mountains, including roe deer, ibex, fox, chamois and marmots.
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SOCIAL STUDIES
The American Experience
"FDR: The Center of the World/Fear Itself Part 1/2" (#701)
Monday, May 12, 2008 09:00 PM
"The Center of the World," explores Roosevelt's family background and education looking for clues as to how the coddled child of rich parents managed to climb the ladder to political success. It follows him from his very first run for political office as New York state senator through his years in Washington as assistant secretary of the navy, as he pursues one goal -- the highest office in the land. This segment also tells the story of FDR's courtship of his distant cousin, Eleanor Roosevelt, and their troubled marriage, including FDR's affair with Eleanor's social secretary, Lucy Mercer. The affair, which nearly ended the marriage, encouraged Eleanor to embrace a life of her own and become politically active. The second segment, "Fear Itself," begins with Roosevelt's bout with polio at age 39 and follows his relentless struggle to rehabilitate his body and his seemingly moribund political career and to teach himself to appear to walk. It also paints a portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt as she makes a life of her own, developing her own political skills while keeping her husband's name before the public through her involvement in reform causes. By the close of the program, a remarkable sequence of events leads FDR back from despair to win his party's nomination as president of the United States. Catapulted into the White House, a man who could not walk begins to lead a country crippled by the Great Depression. The series includes archival film, home movies and audio clips; newly-filmed footage of significant landmarks in FDR's life; an album of family photographs; and interviews with family members, friends and witnesses to history.
NOVA
"Walk to Beautiful" (#3506)
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 08:00 PM
This program, a story of hope and survival in contemporary Ethiopia, presents the stories of five Ethiopian women who have been devastated by obstetric fistula, a common aftermath of neglected childbirth. An obstetric fistula is a hole that forms between the vagina and the bladder (and in some cases the rectum) during prolonged, obstructed labor. Affecting over two million women worldwide, this horrific injury leaves victims incontinent, often suffering nerve damage and in some cases unable to bear children again. Rejected by their husbands and ostracized by their communities, these women are often left to spend the rest of their lives alone, isolated and ashamed --unless they can get help. NOVA follows these women on their journey to the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital, where they find health and solace for the first time in years. The dignity of their struggle connects viewers to the plight of countless women in the developing world who face daily challenges from malnutrition, child marriage and lack of obstetric care.
Frontline
"Storm Over Everest" (#2612)
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 09:00 PM
As darkness fell on May 10, 1996, a fast moving storm of unimaginable ferocity trapped three climbing teams high on the slopes of Mount Everest. The climbers, exhausted from their summit climb, were soon lost in darkness, in a fierce blizzard, far from the safety of High Camp at 26,000 feet. World-renowned climber and filmmaker David Breashears, who aided the rescue efforts back in 1996, now returns to Everest to tell the fuller story of what really happened on that legendary climb. Through remarkably intimate interviews with the climbers and Sherpas -- many who have never spoken before on American television -- Breashears sheds new light on the worst climbing tragedy in Mount Everest's history.
Secrets of the Dead
"Sinking Atlantis" (#802)
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 08:00 PM
Five thousand years ago the Minoans, Europe's first great civilization, flourished on the island of Crete. They were the first Europeans to use writing, and their technologically advanced and rich artistic culture became the setting for famous Greek myths about Theseus, Icarus and the Minotaur. Yet in their heyday, the Minoans were wiped from the pages of history. The cause of their downfall has remained one of the foremost mysteries of the ancient world, until now. The program explores, and discounts, all the usual theories about the disappearance of the Minoans -- from a massive volcano that buried them in ash, to Greek invaders who conquered and killed them. Drawing from the archaeological records, new revelations about Minoan language and religion, and shocking new geological discoveries, the film connects fact with fiction, and reveals the truth behind the reign and fall of the great Minoan civilization.
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SPECIAL EDUCATION
Signing Time!
MPT's K-12 ITV Service: Elementary school
#201-207 Thursday, May 15, 2008 (2-5:30 am)
#208-213 Friday, May 16, 2008 (2-5 am)
This multi-sensory series introduces children to American Sign Language (ASL), a “hands on” second language used by millions.
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