Media Menu: Media Menu for July 25, 2013

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, July 25, 2013
7-8 p.m. E/P
PBS
World History
Elementary, Middle and High School

Richard Bangs' Adventures With a Purpose: Norway: Quest for the Viking Spirit

Airing on KLCS, this documentary visits to Norway to examine its Viking heritage. Included: Oslo, Alta, Kirkenes and Lofotr; a sailing adventure off the Norwegian coast.
Log on http://www.smarttravels.tv/AdventuresWithPurpose/site/shows_norway.html

Friday, July 26, 2013
9-10 p.m. E/P
PBS
Arts
Elementary, Middle and High School

Great Performances: Dancing at Jacob's Pillow: Never Stand Still

Airing on KOCE, this documentary story of Jacob's Pillow, a dance-education center in Beckett, Mass., is mixed with goings-on at its annual festival, including performances by such troupes as Chunky Move and Stockholm 59° North. Included: archival footage from the 1930s and '40.
Log on http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/episodes/dancing-at-jacob’s-pillow-never-stand-still/about-the-show/1756/

Saturday, July 27, 2013
7-9 p.m. PT
TCM – Turner Classic Movie Channel
Arts and Economics
Middle and High School

My Favorite Year

This is a movie worth watching by students interested in a beginning career in television. Although set in the early days of tv – when everything was live only – the challenges depicted are the same challenges as today. The Story: It is 1954, and the larger-than-life, swashbuckling movie star Alan Swann is set to make his first television appearance on the hugely popular show, The Comedy Cavalcade. Given Swann's reputation as a wild, unpredictable drinker, the producers give their new writer, young Benjy Stone, the job of babysitting Swann and getting him to the show on time and sober. The experience is far more stressful than Benjy expected, but after some adventures, he and Swann both learn some valuable lessons and develop a friendship. Peter O’Toole won an Oscar nomination for his performance as Swann. TV-14
Log on http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/333/My-Favorite-Year

Sunday, July 28, 2013
5-7:15 p.m. PT
TCM – Turner Classic Movie Channel
English Language Arts
Middle and High School

Great Expectations

This is an Oscar-winning movie based on Charles Dickens' classic tale of Pip, a poor orphan who befriends an escaped convict and who grows up in the company of a bitter old woman, Miss Havisham, and her haughty young ward, Estella. Pip learns the rewards of both vindictiveness and gratitude as a result of these events. TV-G
Log on http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/76862/Great-Expectations

Monday, July 29, 2013
10-11 p.m. E/P
PBS
Science
Middle and High School

NOVA: Neurotypical

This documentary airing on KOCE, explores autism from the perspective of individuals with autism, including a 4-year-old girl, teenage boy and adult woman.
Log on http://www.pbs.org/pov/neurotypical/

Tuesday, July 30, 2013
7-8 p.m. E/P
PBS
Science and Geography
Middle and High School

NOVA: Extreme Cave Diving

Airing on KLCS, this document follows a team of scientists as they venture into blue holes—underwater caves that formed during the last ice age, when sea level was nearly 400 feet below what it is today. These caves, little-known treasures of the Bahamas, are one of Earth's least explored and most dangerous frontiers. The interdisciplinary team of biologists, climatologists, and anthropologists discover intriguing evidence of the earliest human inhabitants of the islands, find animals seen nowhere else on Earth, and recover a remarkable record of the planet's climate.
Log on http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/earth/extreme-cave-diving.html

Wednesday, July 31, 2013
5-7 p.m. E/P
History Channel
Science and Geography
Middle and High School

Journey to 10,000 BC

In this documentary viewers will go back in time to when early humans are just starting to inhabit North America and huge climate fluctuations cause a mini-Ice Age. The saber tooth cat, the giant ground sloth and the woolly mammoth are suddenly becoming extinct. How does man survive? Travel to early archaeological sites in North America and watch as scientists uncover fossilized bones, ancient homes and weapons of stone. State-of-the-art green-screen computer animation re-creates the great mammoth hunts of the time. TV-PG
Log on http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1203519/

Book TV Schedule

Saturday, July 27th

8am (ET)
Approx. 44 min.
"World Peace and Other 4th-Grade Achievements"
John Hunter

8:45am (ET)
Approx. 53 min.
"Sagebrush Rebel: Reagan's Battle with Environmental Extremists and Why It Matters Today"
William Perry Pendley

9:45am (ET)
Approx. 14 min.
2013 Book Expo America: Fall Book Preview with Stanley Crouch, "Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker"
Stanley Crouch

LIVE 10am (ET)
Approx. 6 hr. 45 min.
2013 Roosevelt Reading Festival
Multiple Authors

5pm (ET)
Approx. 8 min.
"The Remarkable Ronald Reagan"
Susan Allen

5:15pm (ET)
Approx. 42 min.
"Hammarskjold: A Life"
Roger Lipsey

6pm (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
Encore Booknotes: Col. David Hackworth, "About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior"
David Hackworth

7pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.
"Cotton Tenants: Three Families"
James Agee; Walker Evans

8pm (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
Book TV at FreedomFest: Oscar Goodman, "Being Oscar: From Mob Lawyer to Mayor of Las Vegas"
Oscar Goodman

9pm (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
"Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence"
Joseph Ellis

10pm (ET)
Approx. 57 min.
After Words: Sheila Miyoshi Jager, "Brothers at War: The Unending Conflict in Korea," hosted by Scott Snyder, Council of Foreign Relations

11pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 3 min.
"Coup: The Day the Democrats Ousted Their Governor, Put Republican Lamar Alexander in Office Early, and Stopped a Pardon Scandal"
Keel Hunt

Sunday, July 28th

12am (ET)
Approx. 6 hr. 45 min.
2013 Roosevelt Reading Festival
Multiple Authors

7am (ET)
Approx. 13 min.
2013 Book Expo America: Fall Book Preview with Ann Romney, "The Romney Family Table: Sharing Home-Cooked Recipes and Favorite Traditions"
Ann Romney

7:15am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 17 min.
2013 Harlem Book Fair: Science & Health Panel
Sheldon Krimsky; Jonathan Metzl; Alondra Nelson; Samuel Roberts; Harriet Washington