Media Menu for November 15, 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, November 15, 2012
4 p.m.-midnight E/P   
History Channel    U.S.
History, Economics and Technology   
Middle and High School

The Men Who Built America

This is a broadcast of all four episodes of a documentary miniseries about U.S. economic history. John D. Rockefeller, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Ford and J.P. Morgan rose from obscurity and in the process built modern America.  These men created the American Dream and were the engine of capitalism as they transformed everything they touched in building the oil, rail, steel, shipping, automobile and finance industries. Their paths crossed repeatedly as they elected presidents, set economic policies and influenced major events of the 50 most formative years this country has ever known. From the Civil War to the Great Depression and World War I, they led the way. Episode  airtimes: A New War Begins 4-6, Bloody Battles 6-8, Changing the Game 8-10 and When One Ends, Another Begins 10 –midnight. (see  link below for topics covered in each episode)
Log on  http://www.history.com/shows/men-who-built-america

Friday, November 16, 2012
5-9 p.m. ET, 2-6 PT   
TCM- Turner Classic Movie Channel   
World History   
Middle and High School

Lawrence Of Arabia

Providing important tools for understanding what’s happening in the Middle East today, this  7-Oscar winning historical movie tells the story of a young  scholar making maps for British Intelligence during World War I  who discovers the hero within himself when he goes on a fact-finding mission in the Arabian Desert. What starts as a search for intelligence about the Arab Revolt against the Turks, turns into an exercise in courage, leadership and betrayal. T.E. Lawrence takes control of the revolution, leading the Arabs to victory against England's Turkish enemies, only to discover that his superiors have no intention of leaving the men he's come to regard as brothers in charge of their own homeland. The hero is left shattered, doubting his greatest achievements and living in seclusion until his lifelong need for speed and excitement results in a tragic motorcycle accident. Available on video.
Log on  http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/4455/Lawrence-of-Arabia/
   
Saturday, November 17, 2012
7:30-8 p.m. E/P    PBS   
Technology and Arts   
Elementary, Middle and High School

Make: Computer Music Making

In this documentary airing on KLCS, the topics covered  are : Creating a symphony from personal computers; gauging the forces of a roller coaster with a Wii controller. Also: a Japanese saw; a Tesla coil electric guitar, an LED fan sign; a solar-powered land gondola.
Log on  http://howtomakeelectronicmusic.com/how-to-make-electronic-music-with-computer-where-to-start
    
Sunday, November 18, 2012
7-8  p.m. E/P   
History Channel   
Science    Middle and High School

Superstorm  2012: Hell and High Water

Hurricane Sandy was one of the most devastating super storms to hit our shores, claiming over 160 lives and causing billions of dollars in damage. This documentary examines what happened when Sandy hit and how it happened. We also hunt for clues that could reveal if we are entering an age when bigger, more deadly storms will become a regular occurrence. Is it possible to tell when the next super storm will strike and ultimately will we be prepared? TV-PG
Log on http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/episodes/superstorm-2012

Monday, November 19, 2012
7-8:30  p.m. E/P   
PBS   
Science    Middle and High School

Going Blind

Airing on KLCS, this documentary profiles people dealing with vision loss. The word "inspirational" is so overused as to be hackneyed, but writer director Joe Lovett’s documentary Going Blind—in which he chronicles his battle with glaucoma while using his experiences to connect with five other people living with degrees of blindness—is exactly and profoundly that. . . . The camera follows a 22-year-old Iraq War vet who lost his sight in a roadside attack, a septuagenarian architect whose experimental treatment allows him to keep working, and, especially, an art teacher who lost her sight to diabetes—with appealing directness and not a shred of self-pity, she says simply, “You learn to work with what you have.”
Log on http://www.goingblindmovie.com/synopsis

Tuesday, November 20, 2012
9-10 p.m. E/P   
History Channel   
World History   
Middle and High School

Mankind The Story of All of Us: Empires

This is an episode in a  documentary miniseries about the history of the human race. It takes 10 billion years for the ideal planet to form and 3 billion more for the right conditions to emerge before it finally happens: mankind begins. From there unfolds a fast-paced story told here through key turning points—stepping stones in our journey from hunter-gatherer to global citizen. It’s a tale of connections—why some ideas take hold and spread around the globe, and how the lives of people in one part of the world are shaped by events in another. Tonight: The crucifixion of Jesus gives birth to global religion, but Christianity may never have happened without the Roman Empire. The Roman Empire's vast network of roads and shipping lanes allows goods and ideas to flow across three continents, allowing Jesus' message to transform Mankind around the world. When Rome is sacked by barbarians, Europe enters a Dark Age. But from the fringes of the old empire, two new forces remake the world. The Arabs, funded by a gold rush, unite under the banner of Islam. The Vikings rejuvenate the cities of Europe, travel to America and become Christian knights. The stage is set for a clash of civilizations--the Crusades.  TV-PG
Log on http://www.history.com/shows/mankind-the-story-of-all-of-us

Wednesday, November 21, 2012
5-7:15 p.m. E/T , 2-4:15 p.m. PT   
TCM-Turner Classic Movie Channel   
Literature   
Middle and High School

To Kill A Mockingbird

This a classic movie about a young girl grows up fast when her lawyer father defends a black man accused of  assaulting  a white woman. Fifty years after winning the Pulitzer Prize, the novel on which this movie is based  remains a beloved bestseller and quite possibly the most influential American novel of the 20th Century, also possibly the most taught novel in U.S. schools.
Log on http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/20116/To-Kill-a-Mockingbird

Book TV Schedule

Saturday, November 17th

8am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 10 min.
2012 Paolucci/Bagehot Book Award Dinner: John Fonte, "Sovereignty or Submission"
John Fonte

9:15am (ET)
Approx. 40 min.
"Regulating to Disaster: How Green Jobs Policies Are Damaging America's Economy"
Diana Furchtgott-Roth

LIVE 10am (ET)
Approx. 9 hr. 30 min.
2012 Miami Book Fair International: Saturday
Multiple Authors
Send questions for the author to Book TV

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

8pm (ET)
Approx. 2 hr.
2012 National Book Awards
Multiple Authors

10pm (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
After Words: James Patterson, "The Eve of Destruction: How 1965 Transformed America," hosted by Prof. Daryl Scott, Howard University

11pm (ET)
Approx. 42 min.
"Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate"
Greg Lukianoff

Sunday, November 18th

12am (ET)
Approx. 9 hr. 30 min.
2012 Miami Book Fair International: Saturday
Multiple Authors

9:30am (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

10:15am (ET)
Approx. 41 min.
"Exceptional America: A Message of Hope from a Modern-Day de Tocqueville"
Nick Adams

11am (ET)
Approx. 57 min.
After Words: David Cay Johnston, "The Fine Print: How Big Companies Use 'Plain English' to Rob You Blind," hosted by Jayne O'Donnell, USA Today Money Reporter

LIVE 12pm (ET)
Approx. 5 hr. 30 min.
2012 Miami Book Fair International: Sunday
Multiple Authors
Send questions for the author to Book TV

5:30pm (ET)
Approx. 51 min.
2012 Miami Book Fair International: Tom Wolfe, "Back to Blood"
Tom Wolfe

6:45pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 10 min.
2012 Paolucci/Bagehot Book Award Dinner: John Fonte, "Sovereignty or Submission"
John Fonte

8pm (ET)
Approx. 57 min.
"The Finish: The Killing of Osama Bin Laden"
Mark Bowden

9pm (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
After Words: James Patterson, "The Eve of Destruction: How 1965 Transformed America," hosted by Prof. Daryl Scott, Howard University

10pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 4 min.
"The Secret Knowledge on the Dismantling of American Culture"
David Mamet

11:15pm (ET)
Approx. 42 min.
"Presidential Power in Troubled Second Terms: A Historical Look at the Second Term"
Alfred Zacher

Monday, November 19th

12am (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
After Words: James Patterson, "The Eve of Destruction: How 1965 Transformed America," hosted by Prof. Daryl Scott, Howard University

1am (ET)
Approx. 5 hr. 30 min.
2012 Miami Book Fair International: Sunday
Multiple Authors

6:30am (ET)
Approx. 51 min.
2012 Miami Book Fair International: Tom Wolfe, "Back to Blood"
Tom Wolfe