Media Menu for August 23, 2012

Here are home viewing suggestions for the week, selected from online advanced TV program listings and aligned with the state and national K-12 academic standards available online. Please consult local listings also, since actual broadcast times may vary.   The Websites cited in the “Log on“  box  below the TV listing provide further details about the show’s  topic and may contain links to video clips from the show or a complete streaming video version of the show.

Thursday,,  August  23,  2012,
7-8 p.m. E/P
PBS
Science
Elementary, and High School

Nature: Bears of the Last Frontier

In this documentary airing on KLCS, program host Chris Morgan travels to the far north of Alaska, the tiny North Slope town of Kaktovik. It’s early November and winter is coming on. But each year, the polar bears struggle for extended periods on dwindling fat reserves, waiting for the opportunity to hunt on sea ice that takes longer to freeze. In early spring, Morgan joins local hunters in Barrow, the northernmost city in Alaska, as they go out on their own hunts, facing some of the same challenges as the bears. In late spring, Morgan travels to the North Slope of the Brooks Range, where countless thousands of caribou cover the ground for miles. The grizzlies are waiting for them, as they have for thousands of years.
Log on http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/bears-of-the-last-frontier/full-episode-hour-three-arctic-wanderers/6940/

Friday,  August  24,  2012,
5-6 p.m. E/P
History Channel
Science and Technology
Middle and High School

Modern Marvels: Deep Freeze

This is a documentary takes a look at the technology of cold. Think your home freezer is "cool"? Try spending some time in a 12-story unit filled with 135 million pounds of ice cream. Enter Arctic vaults that store millions of different seeds and learn how scientists have mastered temperatures of -200 degrees F and below. Explore how the cold not only preserves and chills, but also shatters rubber tires, strengthens steel, and fuels rockets.  TV-PG
Log on http://www.grimsby.ac.uk/industry/documents/frperc/research/refrigeration.pdf

Saturday,  August  25,  2012,
5-6 p.m. E/P
CNN
U.S. History and Economics
High School

Global Lessons: Putting America to Work

This is a documentary about lessons from around the globe useful to promote financial growth in America.
Log on  http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/18/world/mexico-g-20-summit/index.html?iref=allsearch

Sunday,  August  26,  2012,
7- 8 E/P
PBS
U.S. History
Middle and High School

History Detectives

Airing on KLCS, the episode of the documentary series History Detectives investigates a camera that may have been used by the first female White House photographer to shoot a picture of President Truman, and a 19th-century doll that might have been used to smuggle medicine into the Confederate South.
Log on  http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/investigation/drug-smuggling-doll/

Monday,  August  27,  2012,
7-9 p.m. E/P (times vary by network)
ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC,
U.S. History and Government
Middle and High School
Republican National Convention
This is the first night of tv coverage of the GOP Convention – which continues in this time slot until Friday. Log on to link below for advanced information about each evening’s proceedings.
Log on  http://www.gopconvention2012.com/

Tuesday,  August  28,  2012,
10-11 p.m. E/P
PBS
Math
Middle and High School

Hard Problems: The Road to the World's Toughest Math Contest

Airing on KLCS, this documentary follows six U.S. high-school students competing in the  International Mathematical Olympiad, the world's toughest math competition, which comprises teams from 90 countries. Each year, this grueling and exhilarating contest pits national  top teams  in their quest to solve some of the world’s most challenging problems. These dedicated and talented young men and women — some immigrants, others U.S.-born — shatter many stereotypes and clichés about the mathematically gifted.
Log on http://www.maa.org/students/

Wednesday,  August  29,  2012,
 9-11:30 p.m. ET, 6-8:30 PT
TCM-Turner Classic Movie Channel
World History
Middle and High School

Joan Of Arc

This is an  Oscar-winning history movie about a  farm girl whose faith unites France against British invaders.  Guided by the voices that have spoken to her since she was thirteen, Jeanne travels from her home in Lorraine, at their instruction. The voices have commanded her to lead the French Dauphin Charles VII, the prophesied future king of France, in battle against the British, first in Orleans but then in successive victories that rally the French people around Jeanne during the Hundred Years War. But Jeanne's growing  national stature--a threat to the monarchy--and the king's greed lead Charles to trade French autonomy for money. He makes a deal with the British, who then capture Jeanne, imprisoning her and subjecting her to a farcical trial whose only goal, despite the semblance of fairness, is to burn Jeanne at the stake as a heretic. The trial is led by the corrupt, politically motivated Pierre Cauchon  who harangues and tortures Jeanne until she is nearly broken. But even her British persecutors cannot stop Jeanne from achieving sainthood with her immortality assured when she is burned at the stake. TV-PG
Log on http://www.biographyonline.net/people/joan-of-arc.html

Book TV Schedule

Saturday, August 25th

8am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 16 min.
"The Wildness Within: Remembering David Brower"
Kenneth Brower

9:15am (ET)
Approx. 45 min.
2012 Chicago Tribune Printers Row Lit Fest: Reginald Dwayne Betts, "A Question of Freedom"
Reginald Dwayne Betts

10am (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
"The Lost Bank: The Story of Washington Mutual -The Biggest Bank Failure in American History"
Kirsten Grind

11am (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
"Red Ink: Inside the High-Stakes Politics of the Federal Budget"
David Wessel

12pm (ET)
Approx. 4 hr. 30 min.
2012 Roosevelt Reading Festival
Mutiple Authors

4:30pm (ET)
Approx. 42 min.
"Are You In a Pickle?: Lessons Learned Along the Way: Students' Performance and Achievement Gaps"
Patricia Pickles

6pm (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
Encore Booknotes: Conor Cruise O'Brien, "The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution, 1785-1800"
Conor Cruise O'Brien

7pm (ET)
Approx. 52 min.
"The Rise of Marco Rubio"
Manuel Roig-Franzia

8pm (ET)
Approx. 57 min.
"Treacherous Beauty: Peggy Shippen, the Woman Behind Benedict Arnold's Plot to Betray America"
Stephen Case; Mark Jacob

9pm (ET)
Approx. 57 min.
"Some of My Best Friends Are Black: The Strange Story of Integration in America"
Tanner Colby

10pm (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
After Words: John Corvino & Maggie Gallagher, "Debating Same-Sex Marriage"

11pm (ET)
Approx. 24 min.
"I Want You to Shut the F#ck Up: How the Audacity of Dopes is Ruining America"
D.L. Hughley

11:30pm (ET)
Approx. 29 min.
2012 Eagle Forum Collegians Leadership Summit: Brett Decker, "Bowing to Beijing"
Brett Decker

Sunday, August 26th

12am (ET)
Approx. 4 hr. 30 min.
2012 Roosevelt Reading Festival
Mutiple Authors

4:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 2 min.
"Pax Ethnica: Where and How Diversity Succeeds"
Shareen Blair Brysac; Karl Meyer

5:45am (ET)
Approx. 51 min.
"Ayn Rand Nation: The Hidden Struggle for America's Soul"
Gary Weiss

6:45am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 9 min.
"The Road to Freedom: How to Win the Fight for Free Enterprise"
Arthur Brooks

8am (ET)
Approx. 53 min.
"The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life That Follows"
Brian Castner

9am (ET)
Approx. 42 min.
"Are You In a Pickle?: Lessons Learned Along the Way: Students' Performance and Achievement Gaps"
Patricia Pickles

10:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 9 min.
"The Candidate: What It Takes To Win - and Hold - The White House"
Samuel Popkin

12pm (ET)
Approx. 52 min.
After Words: John Fund & Hans Von Spakovsky, "Who's Counting?: How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk," hosted by Linda Killian, Wilson Center

1pm (ET)
Approx. 16 min.
Book TV at FreedomFest: G. Edward Griffin, "The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve"
G. Edward Griffin

1:15pm (ET)
Approx. 13 min.
Book TV at FreedomFest: Wendy McElroy, "The Art of Being Free: Politics versus the Everyman and Woman"
Wendy McElroy

1:30pm (ET)
Approx. 24 min.
Book TV at FreedomFest: Peter Schiff, "The Real Crash: America's Coming Bankruptcy---How to Save Yourself and Your Country"
Peter Schiff

2pm (ET)
Approx. 57 min.
"Some of My Best Friends Are Black: The Strange Story of Integration in America"
Tanner Colby

3pm (ET)
Approx. 45 min.
"Selecting a President"
Eleanor Clift; Matthew Spieler

4pm (ET)
Approx. 57 min.
After Words: Mitt Romney, "No Apology," interviewed by Juan Williams

5pm (ET)
Approx. 47 min.
"The Real Romney"
Michael Kranish

6pm (ET)
Approx. 42 min.
Charles Peters "Five Days in Philadelphia: 1940, Wendell Willkie, and the Political Convention That Won World War II"
Charles Peters

7pm (ET)
Approx. 24 min.
Book TV at FreedomFest: Peter Schiff, "The Real Crash: America's Coming Bankruptcy---How to Save Yourself and Your Country"
Peter Schiff

7:30pm (ET)
Approx. 16 min.
Book TV at FreedomFest: G. Edward Griffin, "The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve"
G. Edward Griffin

8pm (ET)
Approx. 55 min.
"Confessions of a Microfinance Heretic: How Microlending Lost Its Way and Betrayed the Poor"
Hugh Sinclair

9pm (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
After Words: John Corvino & Maggie Gallagher, "Debating Same-Sex Marriage"

10pm (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
"Red Ink: Inside the High-Stakes Politics of the Federal Budget"
David Wessel

11pm (ET)
Approx. 52 min.
"The Rise of Marco Rubio"
Manuel Roig-Franzia

Monday, August 27th

12am (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
After Words: John Corvino & Maggie Gallagher, "Debating Same-Sex Marriage"

1am (ET)
Approx. 16 min.
Book TV at FreedomFest: G. Edward Griffin, "The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve"
G. Edward Griffin

1:15am (ET)
Approx. 13 min.
Book TV at FreedomFest: Wendy McElroy, "The Art of Being Free: Politics versus the Everyman and Woman"
Wendy McElroy

1:30am (ET)
Approx. 24 min.
Book TV at FreedomFest: Peter Schiff, "The Real Crash: America's Coming Bankruptcy---How to Save Yourself and Your Country"
Peter Schiff

2am (ET)
Approx. 57 min.
"Kill the Messenger: The Media's Role in the Fate of the World"
Maria Armoudian

3am (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
After Words: John Corvino & Maggie Gallagher, "Debating Same-Sex Marriage"

4am (ET)
Approx. 52 min.
"Those Who Have Borne the Battle: A History of America's Wars and Those Who Fought Them"
James Wright

5am (ET)
Approx. 26 min.
Book TV at Georgetown University: Nancy Sherman, "The Untold War: Inside the Hearts, Minds, and Souls of Our Soldiers"
Nancy Sherman

5:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 33 min.
"Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage: The Titanic's First Class Passengers and Their World"
Hugh Brewster

7am (ET)
Approx. 57 min.
"Treacherous Beauty: Peggy Shippen, the Woman Behind Benedict Arnold's Plot to Betray America"
Stephen Case; Mark Jacob