Media Menu for December 20, 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,  December 20,  2012
8-9 p.m. E/P
PBS
Science and Geography
Elementary, Middle and High School

Globe Trekker Special: Volcanoes, Ring of Fire

Airing on  KLCS, this documentary explores Volcanoes in Italy, Greece, Indonesia, Japan, Montserrat, Guatemala, Ecuador, the Canary Islands, the U.S.  and Martinique.
Log on  http://www.pilotguides.com/tv_shows/globe_trekker/shows/specials/volcanoes.php

Friday,  December 21,  2012
6-7  p.m. E/P
Travel Channel
Geography
Middle and High School

Ghost Adventures: Point Sur Lighthouse

This documentary takes viewers to Northern California to investigate the many claims of paranormal activity at one of the most haunted lighthouses in America. Nestled between the picturesque cities of Big Sur and Carmel, the Point Sur Lighthouse sits on a volcanic rock, protecting ships from the turbulent rocky coast of the Pacific Ocean. TV-PG
Log on  http://www.travelchannel.com/tv-shows/ghost-adventures/photos/ghost-adventures-point-sur-lighthouse-pictures

Saturday,  December 22,  2012
6-8  p.m. E/P
History  Channel
World History
Middle and High School

Mankind - The Story of All of Us: Revolutions

In this documentary mankind embarks on a new age of exploration, and tames the wilderness. In North America, Siberia and Australia, ancient traditions are swept away in the name of commerce and science. Within a hundred years, the irrational fear that produced a witch trial in Salem MA gives way to a very rational cry for freedom. American revolutionaries confront a mighty empire. The battle for the modern world begins. Two great revolutions entwine. The American Revolution inspires dreams of political and personal liberty. The Industrial Revolution replaces muscle power with machines, freeing Mankind from nature s limits. But our oldest foe--disease--thrives in industrial cities. With the American Civil War, the two revolutions collide. The world’ s first industrial war, it is a battle to define "freedom." TV-PG
Log on  http://www.history.com/shows/mankind-the-story-of-all-of-us#fbid=Y21IXbmMEkA

Sunday,  December 23,  2012
7-8  p.m. E/P
CBSArts
Middle and High School

60 Minutes

This news magazine profiles three musicians: THE YEAR OF ADELE – Anderson Cooper talks to British singing-sensation Adele about her success and the vocal cord surgery that saved her voice. RODRIGUEZ – Singer-songwriter Rodriguez emerged from 40 years of obscurity to become a star, thanks to a film about him and legions of fans in South Africa he never knew he had. Bob Simon reports. TAYLOR SWIFT - She writes and sings all her own songs, sells millions of records and she’s just 23 years old. Lesley Stahl profiles music sensation Taylor Swift.
Log on  http://www.cbsnews.com/60-minutes

Monday,  December 24,  2012
7-9  p.m.
E/PNational
Geographic ChannelScience and Geography
Middle and High School

Drain The  Ocean

What if we could pull the plug and drain the planet's water? What would we see? What would we learn? In this  documentary viewers follow virtual scientific expedition to the deep as we explore one of earth's last great frontiers. We'll remove the water using CGI animation, revealing a landscape of unimaginable scale with unexpected features more dramatic than anything on dry land. With the very latest scientific data and digital mapping, discover the deepest canyons and biggest mountains on the planet.
Log on  http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/episodes/drain-the-ocean/

Tuesday,  December 25,  2012
7-9  p.m. E/P
National Geographic Channel
Science
Middle and High School

Remember This!

With memory, things are not always as they seem: Details go  missing, recollections change, and sometimes our brains fill in the blanks and create false visual memories. In this documentary   experts are on a mission to find out where memories reside in the brain by examining every millimeter for clues. Investigating every piece of the memory puzzle, from how we recognize faces — even if they have been digitally distorted  to how we can move memories from short-term to long-term storage.
Log on  http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/brain-games/episodes/remember-this/

Wednesday,  December 26,  2012
9-11  p.m. E/P
CBSArts
Middle and High School

The 35th Annual Kennedy Center Honors

Artists receive recognition in the annual ceremony; this year's honorees include musician Buddy Guy, actor Dustin Hoffman, comic David Letterman, ballerina Natalia Makarova and rock band Led Zeppelin; Caroline Kennedy hosts.
Log on  http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/specialevents/honors/

Book TV Schedule

Saturday, December 22nd

8am (ET)
Approx. 57 min.
"Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power"
Jon Meacham

9am (ET)
Approx. 57 min.
"Detroit City is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis"
Mark Binelli

10am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 51 min.
"Patriots Debate"
Stewart Baker; Charles Dunlap, Jr.; Gregory Jacob; Harvey Rishikof; Stephen Vladeck

12pm (ET)
Approx. 54 min.
"A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico"
Amy Greenberg

1pm (ET)
Approx. 52 min.
After Words: Robert Bork, "A Time to Speak: Selected Writings and Arguments" interviewed by Eugene Meyer

2pm (ET)
Approx. 55 min.
"Exit the Colonel: The Hidden History of the Libyan Revolution"
Ethan Chorin

3pm (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
"American Phoenix: The Remarkable Story of William Skinner, a Man Who Turned Disaster into Destiny"
Sarah Kilborne

4pm (ET)
Approx. 26 min.
"Democracy's Big Day: The Inauguration of Our President, 1789-2013"
Jim Bendat

4:30pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 18 min.
"Sacred Ground: Pluralism, Prejudice, and the Promise of America"
Eboo Patel

6pm (ET)
Approx. 57 min.
Encore Booknotes: Sandra Day O'Connor, "Lazy B: Growing Up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest"
Sandra Day O'Connor

7pm (ET)
Approx. 41 min.
Interview with Neil Barofsky, "Bailout"
Neil Barofsky

7:45pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 6 min.
"The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom"
Marcus Rediker

9pm (ET)
Approx. 45 min.
"Ike's Bluff: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World"
Evan Thomas

10pm (ET)
Approx. 57 min.
After Words: Craig Whitney, "Living with Guns: A Liberal's Case for the Second Amendment," hosted by Paul Helmke, former president of Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence

11pm (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
"Affairs of State: The Untold History of Presidential Love, Sex, and Scandal, 1789-1900"
Robert Watson
Sunday, December 23rd

12am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 5 min.
"Of Africa"
Wole Soyinka

1:30am (ET)
Approx. 53 min.
"Pat Nixon: Embattled First Lady"
Mary Brennan

2:30am (ET)
Approx. 27 min.
2012 National Book Festival: Rep. John Lewis, "Across That Bridge"
John Lewis

3am (ET)
Approx. 42 min.
Larry Schweikart: "A Patriot's History of the Modern World: From America's Exceptional Ascent to the Atomic Bomb: 1898-1945"
Larry Schweikart

3:45am (ET)
Approx. 43 min.
"The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued Their Bosses and Changed the Workplace"
Lynn Povich

4:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 12 min.
"My American Revolution: Crossing the Delaware and I-78"
Robert Sullivan

5:45am (ET)
Approx. 42 min.
"Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic"
David Quammen

6:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 4 min.
"Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves"
Henry Wiencek

7:45am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 18 min.
"Sacred Ground: Pluralism, Prejudice, and the Promise of America"
Eboo Patel

9:15am (ET)
Approx. 39 min.
"James Meredith and the Ole Miss Riot: A Soldier's Story"
Henry Gallagher

10am (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
2012 Year in Books
Bob Minzesheimer; Sarah Weinman

11am (ET)
Approx. 45 min.
"Ike's Bluff: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World"
Evan Thomas

12pm (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
After Words: Cynthia Lowen, "Bully: An Action Plan for Teachers, Parents, and Communities to Combat the Bullying Crisis

1pm (ET)
Approx. 28 min.
Book TV at the University of Pennsylvania: Mary Frances Berry, "And Justice for All: The United States Commission on Civil Rights and the Continuing Struggle for Freedom in America"
Mary Frances Berry

1:30pm (ET)
Approx. 24 min.
Book TV at the University of Pennsylvania: Stephanie McCurry, "Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South"
Stephanie McCurry

2pm (ET)
Approx. 37 min.
Michael J. Sandel, "What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets"
Michael J. Sandel

2:45pm (ET)
Approx. 44 min.
"The 4% Solution: Unleashing the Economic Growth America Needs"
George W. Bush; James K. Glassman

3:30pm (ET)
Approx. 57 min.
"Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else"
Chrystia Freeland

4:30pm (ET)
Approx. 29 min.
Book TV at FreedomFest: Steve Forbes, "Freedom Manifesto: Why Free Markets Are Moral and Big Government Isn't"
Steve Forbes

5pm (ET)
Approx. 45 min.
"Almost Home: Helping Kids Move from Homelessness to Hope"
Cory Booker; Tina Kelley; Kevin Ryan

6pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 4 min.
"A Good Man: Rediscovering My Father, Sargent Shriver"
Mark Shriver

7:15pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 15 min.
"Reporting the Revolutionary War: It Was History, It Was News"
Todd Andrlik

8:30pm (ET)
Approx. 24 min.
"The Richest Woman in America: Hetty Green in the Gilded Age"
Janet Wallach

9pm (ET)
Approx. 57 min.
After Words: Craig Whitney, "Living with Guns: A Liberal's Case for the Second Amendment," hosted by Paul Helmke, former president of Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence

10pm (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
"American Phoenix: The Remarkable Story of William Skinner, a Man Who Turned Disaster into Destiny"
Sarah Kilborne

11pm (ET)
Approx. 49 min.
"Boom, Bust, Boom: A Story About Copper, the Metal That Runs the World"
Bill Carter
Monday, December 24th

12am (ET)
Approx. 57 min.
After Words: Craig Whitney, "Living with Guns: A Liberal's Case for the Second Amendment," hosted by Paul Helmke, former president of Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence

1am (ET)
Approx. 28 min.
Book TV at the University of Pennsylvania: Mary Frances Berry, "And Justice for All: The United States Commission on Civil Rights and the Continuing Struggle for Freedom in America"
Mary Frances Berry

1:30am (ET)
Approx. 24 min.
Book TV at the University of Pennsylvania: Stephanie McCurry, "Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South"
Stephanie McCurry

2am (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
"Affairs of State: The Untold History of Presidential Love, Sex, and Scandal, 1789-1900"
Robert Watson

3am (ET)
Approx. 57 min.
After Words: Craig Whitney, "Living with Guns: A Liberal's Case for the Second Amendment," hosted by Paul Helmke, former president of Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence

4am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 3 min.
"Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet"
John Turner

5:15am (ET)
Approx. 10 min.
2012 Miami Book Fair International: Interview with Lila Quintero Weaver, "Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White"
Lila Quintero Weaver

5:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 14 min.
"Volcker: The Triumph of Persistence"
William Silber; Paul Volcker

6:45am (ET)
Approx. 21 min.
Book TV at the United States Naval Academy: Maochun Yu, "OSS in China: Prelude to Cold War"
Maochun Yu

7:15am (ET)
Approx. 40 min.
2012 National Book Festival: Elizabeth Dowling Taylor, "A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons"
Elizabeth Dowling Taylor

8:30am (ET)
Approx. 20 min.
Interview with Manuel Roig-Franzia, "The Rise of Marco Rubio"
Manuel Roig-Franzia

9am (ET)
Approx. 45 min.
"Strom Thurmond's America"
Joseph Crespino

10am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 15 min.
2012 Boston Book Festival - Panel: "Triumph of the City"
Edward Glaeser

11:15am (ET)
Approx. 26 min.
"Democracy's Big Day: The Inauguration of Our President, 1789-2013"
Jim Bendat

12pm (ET)
Approx. 45 min.
"Almost Home: Helping Kids Move from Homelessness to Hope"
Cory Booker; Tina Kelley; Kevin Ryan

1pm (ET)
Approx. 26 min.
"The Coming Prosperity: How Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Global Economy"
Philip Auerswald

1:30pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 27 min.
"Science Left Behind: Feel-Good Fallacies and the Rise of the Anti-Scientific Left"
Alex Berezow

3pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 6 min.
"The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom"
Marcus Rediker

4:15pm (ET)
Approx. 44 min.
2012 Texas Book Festival: David Lesch, "Syria: The Fall of the House of Assad"
David Lesch

5pm (ET)
Approx. 57 min.
"In the Shadow of Greatness: Voices of Leadership, Sacrifice, and Service from America's Longest War"
Joshua Welle

6pm (ET)
Approx. 51 min.
"Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror and Deliverance in the City of Love"
David Talbot

7pm (ET)
Approx. 45 min.
"Round About the Earth: Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit"
Joyce Chaplin

8:30pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 2 min.
"Rise to Greatness: Abraham Lincoln and America's Most Perilous Year"
David Von Drehle

9:45pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 6 min.
Newt Gingrich, "Victory at Yorktown"
Newt Gingrich

11pm (ET)
Approx. 54 min.
"The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy"
David Nasaw
Tuesday, December 25th

12am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 52 min.
2012 National Book Awards
Multiple Authors

2am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 5 min.
"Zumwalt: The Life and Times of Admiral Elmo Russell "Bud" Zumwalt, Jr."
Larry Berman

3:15am (ET)
Approx. 42 min.
"Into the Fire: A Firsthand Account of the Most Extraordinary Battle in the Afghan War"
Dakota Meyer

4am (ET)
Approx. 18 min.
"The Color Purple" 30 Years Later
Alice Walker

4:30am (ET)
Approx. 42 min.
"Presidential Power in Troubled Second Terms: A Historical Look at the Second Term"
Alfred Zacher

5:15am (ET)
Approx. 43 min.
"I'd Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had: My Year as a Rookie Teacher at Northeast High"
Tony Danza

6am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 21 min.
2012 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
Multiple Authors

7:30am (ET)
Approx. 19 min.
Book Party for Ann Coulter, "Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama"
Ann Coulter

8am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 14 min.
Fall for the Book Mason Award Presentation and Lecture - Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman

9:15am (ET)
Approx. 40 min.
"Dog Company: The Boys of Pointe du Hoc - The Rangers Who Accomplished D-Day's Toughest Mission and Led the Way Across Europe"
Patrick O'Donnell

10am (ET)
Approx. 46 min.
"Colors of Confinement: Rare Kodachrome Photographs of Japanese American Incarceration in World War II"
Eric Muller

11am (ET)
Approx. 55 min.
After Words: Ray Kurzweil, "How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed," hosted by Ingrid Wickelgren, Scientific American Mind Editor

12pm (ET)
Approx. 24 min.
"World in the Balance: The Perilous Months of June-October 1940"
Brooke Stoddard

12:30pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 10 min.
"On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson"
William Souder

1:45pm (ET)
Approx. 12 min.
2012 Miami Book Fair International: Interview with Edwidge Danticat, "So Spoke the Earth: The Haiti I Knew, the Haiti I Know, the Haiti I Want to Know"
Edwidge Danticat

2pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 14 min.
"The Fateful History of Fannie Mae: New Deal Birth to Mortgage Crisis Fall"
James Hagerty

3:15pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 1 min.
"Winter of the World"
Ken Follett

4:15pm (ET)
Approx. 45 min.
2012 National Book Festival: Robert Caro, "The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson"
Robert Caro

5pm (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
After Words: Gautam Mukunda, "Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter," hosted by Richard Brookhiser, National Review

6pm (ET)
Approx. 54 min.
"John Quincy Adams"
Harlow Giles Unger

7pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 4 min.
"Listening In: The Secret White House Recordings of John F. Kennedy"
Ellen Fitzpatrick; Caroline Kennedy; Tom Oliphant; Ted Widmer

8:15pm (ET)
Approx. 33 min.
Interview with Brad Meltzer, "Heroes for My Daughter"
Brad Meltzer

8:45pm (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
"War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861-1865"
James McPherson

10pm (ET)
Approx. 46 min.
2012 Miami Book Fair International: Panel with Candice Millard, David Nasaw, and Les Standiford
Candice Millard; David Nasaw; Les Standiford

10:45pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 9 min.
Author Panel on the Supreme Court
Clare Cushman; Anthony Franze; Todd Peppers; Jeffrey Toobin; Artemus Ward
Wednesday, December 26th

12am (ET)
Approx. 42 min.
"Black Fire: The True Story of the Original Tom Sawyer and of the Mysterious Fires That Baptized Gold Rush-era San Francisco"
Robert Graysmith

12:45am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 10 min.
"The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate"
Robert Kaplan

2am (ET)
Approx. 55 min.
"SEAL Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Navy SEAL Sniper"
Howard Wasdin

3am (ET)
Approx. 47 min.
2012 Texas Book Festival: Rachel Swarns, "American Tapestry: The Story of the Black, White, and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama"
Rachel Swarns

3:45am (ET)
Approx. 47 min.
"Viper Pilot: A Memoir of Air Combat"
Dan Hampton

4:45am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 6 min.
"Desert Reckoning: A Town Sheriff, a Mojave Hermit, and the Biggest Manhunt in Modern California History"
Deanne Stillman