Media Menu for February 14, 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, February 14, 2012
9:30-10 p.m. E/P
PBS
Science and Geography
Middle and High School

This American Land

Airing on KLCS, this documentary covers four topics. Future Conservation Leaders: Santa Cruz Island, off the coast of California, is home to bald eagles, scrub jays, and the most adorable foxes you may ever see! This summer, the island is also home to high school students from the Los Angeles area, working side by side with scientists. Co-host Caroline Raville spent some time with these young people to learn about LEAF, Leaders in Environmental Action for the Future. This Nature Conservancy program not only gives high school students a chance to enjoy nature, but provides a spark for many of them to pursue careers in science and conservation. Natural Resources Revival: A county in eastern Oregon has transformed from being dependent on timber, to being a pioneer in using its natural resources. Lake County is known as the “Saudi Arabia” of geothermal power. Its schools and hospitals are already taking advantage of sustainable energy
sources including solar and wind power as well. Folks who used to be at odds, from the lumber industry and conservation groups, have put aside their differences to come up with sustainable answers for the future.
    A Fight for Frogs: A third of the world’s amphibians face extinction, with more than 400 animals listed as “critically endangered.” Habitat loss is one major threat, and that’s the challenge for the gopher frog. Their population is now at an alarming low. These amphibians need both sandy, forested areas, and wetlands in order to breed. But development is making it tougher and tougher for them to survive.
    Amazing Monarch Journey: Monarch butterflies, up to two billion of them, have to fly hundreds of miles to get to their wintering site in Mexico. So even a tiny impact on their migration ability could mean the difference between survival and death. Ecologists study how long distance migration in flying animals may also affect the spread and evolution of infectious disease. These beautiful insects face many threats. Habitat destruction is also taking a hit on them. But a look at their winter home is one of the most stunningly beautiful sights in nature.
Log on http://www.thisamericanland.org/Episodes/season-two

Friday, February 15, 2012
National Geographic Channel
U.S. History
Middle and High School
8-9 p.m. E/P

Lincoln: American Mastermind

This documentary shows how, campaigning for 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln arrived onto the national stage as Honest Abe. But was he really a simple frontiersman or a brilliant strategist who manipulated his public image, using newspapers, photography and folksy imagery to win over voters?
Combining dramatic re-creations, scientific discoveries, rare archival photos and interviews with historians, NGC follows the surprisingly well-orchestrated moves that took Lincoln all the way to the White House.
Log on http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/episodes/lincoln-american-mastermind/

Saturday, February 16, 2012
5-6 p.m. E/P
Science Channel
Science
Middle and High School

Wonders of the Solar System: Thin Blue Line

As shown in this documentary a thin blue line separates us from the harsh vacuum of space. Earth's atmosphere provides the air we breathe, the water we drink and the landscape surrounding us-but it's not unique. Beyond the inner Solar System is a frozen moon that looks like home. TV-G
Log on http://science.discovery.com/tv-shows/wonders-with-brian-cox/videos/wonders-of-the-solar-system-sneak-peek-wonders-of-the-solar-system.htm

Sunday, February 17, 2012
8-9 p.m. E/P
National Geographic Channel
U.S. History
Middle and High School

Killing Lincoln

April 14, 1865. One gunshot. One assassin hell-bent on killing a tyrant, as he charged the 16th President of the United States. And in one moment, our nation was forever changed. This is the most dramatic and resonant crime in American history: the true story of the killing of Abraham Lincoln. From Executive Producers Ridley Scott and Tony Scott, and narrated by Tom Hanks, National Geographic Channel's first original docudrama, Killing Lincoln, based on the New York Times bestseller, combines re-
creations with historical insight in a chronicle of the final days of President Lincoln and his assassin, John Wilkes Booth.
Log on http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/killing-lincoln/

Monday, February 18, 2012
9-10 p.m. E/P
MSNBC Channel
U.S. History
Middle and High School

Rachel Maddow Reports

In this documentary commentator Rachel Maddow goes the step-by-step through the story of how the American people were sold on the Iraq war.
Log on http://www.nbcnews.com/id/3036750#50736581

Tuesday, February 19, 2012
9-10 p.m. E/P
PBS
U.S. History
Middle and High School

After Newtown: Guns in America

Airing on KOCE, this documentary presents a history of guns in America, beginning with the first European settlements in the New World. Also: the political battles that have erupted over gun-control initiatives; the competing visions of national identity that guns and gun control represent. The show addresses such issues as access to guns and the politics of gun laws; mental illness in young adults; the science of detecting violent
impulses; and how communities react to unspeakable tragedy.
Log on http://www.pbs.org/wnet/after-newtown/

Wednesday, February 20, 2012
9-10 p.m. E/P
PBS
Science
Middle and High School

NATURE: A Murder of Crows

Airing on KOCE, this documentary is about one of the world's most intelligent creatures: the crow. The "feathered apes," as one researcher calls them, possess a sophisticated language of 250 calls and at least two dialects. They also can recognize (and remember) human faces.
Log on http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/a-murder-of-crows/introduction/5838/

Book TV Schedule

Saturday, February 16th

8am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 13 min.
"The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement" 
Taylor Branch

9:15am (ET)
Approx. 53 min.
"Bullies: How the Left's Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences America" 
Ben Shapiro

LIVE 10:15am (ET)
Approx. 6 hr. 45 min.
2013 Savannah Book Festival 
Multiple Author Events

5pm (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
"Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction - Stories and Advice from a Lifetime of Writing and Editing" 
Tracy Kidder; Richard Todd

6pm (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
Glory Denied: The Saga of Jim Thompson, America's Longest-Held Prisoner of War 
Tom Philpott

7pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 4 min.
"Dangerous Convictions: What's Really Wrong with the U.S. Congress" 
Tom Allen

8:15pm (ET)
Approx. 34 min.
"The International Relations of Middle-earth: Learning from The Lord of the Rings" 
Patrick James

8:45pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 10 min.
"Becoming Europe: Economic Decline, Culture, and How America Can Avoid a European Future" 
Samuel Gregg

10pm (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
After Words: Sarah Garland, "Divided We Fail: The Story of an African-American Community That Ended the Era of School Desegregation," hosted by Marc Lamont Hill, Columbia University

11pm (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
"Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, & the Prison of Belief" 
Lawrence Wright

Sunday, February 17th

12am (ET)
Approx. 6 hr. 45 min.
2013 Savannah Book Festival 
Multiple Author Events

7am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 17 min.
"Into the Desert: Reflections on the Gulf War" 
Jeffrey Engel

8:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 3 min.
"The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War" 
Fred Kaplan

9:45am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 6 min.
"The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks" 
Jeanne Theoharis

11am (ET)
Approx. 57 min.
"The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?" 
Jared Diamond

12pm (ET)
Approx. 57 min.
After Words: John Mackey, "Conscious Capitalism," hosted by Kim Strassel, Wall Street Journal

1pm (ET)
Approx. 30 min.
Book TV at American University: Akbar Ahmed, "The Thistle and the Drone: How America's War on Terror Became a Global War on Tribal Islam" 
Akbar Ahmed

1:30pm (ET)
Approx. 19 min.
Book TV at American University: Jennifer Lawless, "Becoming a Candidate: Political Ambition and the Decision to Run for Office" 
Jennifer Lawless

2pm (ET)
Approx. 34 min.
"The International Relations of Middle-earth: Learning from The Lord of the Rings" 
Patrick James

2:30pm (ET)
Approx. 53 min.
"Pat Nixon: Embattled First Lady" 
Mary Brennan

3:30pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 4 min.
"Dangerous Convictions: What's Really Wrong with the U.S. Congress" 
Tom Allen

4:45pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 10 min.
"Becoming Europe: Economic Decline, Culture, and How America Can Avoid a European Future" 
Samuel Gregg

6pm (ET)
Approx. 52 min.
"No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington" 
Condoleezza Rice

7pm (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

7:45pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 6 min.
"The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks" 
Jeanne Theoharis

9pm (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
After Words: Sarah Garland, "Divided We Fail: The Story of an African-American Community That Ended the Era of School Desegregation," hosted by Marc Lamont Hill, Columbia University

10pm (ET)
Approx. 40 min.
"This Is the Day: The March on Washington" 
Michael Eric Dyson; Paul Farber; Brigitte Freed

11pm (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
"Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction - Stories and Advice from a Lifetime of Writing and Editing" 
Tracy Kidder; Richard Todd

Monday, February 18th

12am (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
After Words: Sarah Garland, "Divided We Fail: The Story of an African-American Community That Ended the Era of School Desegregation," hosted by Marc Lamont Hill, Columbia University

1am (ET)
Approx. 30 min.
Book TV at American University: Akbar Ahmed, "The Thistle and the Drone: How America's War on Terror Became a Global War on Tribal Islam" 
Akbar Ahmed

1:30am (ET)
Approx. 19 min.
Book TV at American University: Jennifer Lawless, "Becoming a Candidate: Political Ambition and the Decision to Run for Office" 
Jennifer Lawless

2am (ET)
Approx. 53 min.
"Bullies: How the Left's Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences America" 
Ben Shapiro

3am (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
After Words: Sarah Garland, "Divided We Fail: The Story of an African-American Community That Ended the Era of School Desegregation," hosted by Marc Lamont Hill, Columbia University

4am (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
"Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, & the Prison of Belief" 
Lawrence Wright

5am (ET)
Approx. 55 min.
"My Share of the Task: A Memoir" 
Gen. Stanley McChrystal (Ret.)

6am (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
"Going to Tehran: Why the United States Must Come to Terms with the Islamic Republic of Iran" 
Flynt Leverett; Hillary Mann Leverett

7am (ET)
Approx. 40 min.
"This Is the Day: The March on Washington" 
Michael Eric Dyson; Paul Farber; Brigitte Freed

8:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 9 min.
"A Secret History of Coffee, Coca & Cola" 
Ricardo Cortes

9:45am (ET)
Approx. 36 min.
"Dinner with Churchill: Policy-Making at the Dinner Table" 
Cita Stelzer

10:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 2 min.
"Banker to the World: Leadership Lessons From the Front Lines of Global Finance" 
William Rhodes

11:30am (ET)
Approx. 39 min.
2013 Key West Literary Seminar - Panel: "The Biographer as Autobiographer and the Limits of Objectivity" 
Jay Parini; Phyllis Rose; Edmund White; Brenda Wineapple

12:15pm (ET)
Approx. 39 min.
"The Fifth Assassin" 
Brad Meltzer

1pm (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
"Scoop: The Evolution of a Southern Reporter" 
Jack Nelson

2pm (ET)
Approx. 53 min.
"Catastrophic Care: How American Health Care Killed My Father - and How We Can Fix It"
David Goldhill

3pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 29 min.
"The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness" 
Michelle Alexander

4:30pm (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
"Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare From Ancient Times to the Present" 
Max Boot

5:30pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 20 min.
"Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865" 
James Oakes

7pm (ET)
Approx. 48 min.
"The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster"
Jonathan Katz

8:30pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 9 min.
"A Secret History of Coffee, Coca & Cola" 
Ricardo Cortes

9:45pm (ET)
Approx. 36 min.
"Dinner with Churchill: Policy-Making at the Dinner Table" 
Cita Stelzer

10:30pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 2 min.
"Banker to the World: Leadership Lessons From the Front Lines of Global Finance" 
William Rhodes

11:30pm (ET)
Approx. 39 min.
2013 Key West Literary Seminar - Panel: "The Biographer as Autobiographer and the Limits of Objectivity" 
Jay Parini; Phyllis Rose; Edmund White; Brenda Wineapple

Tuesday, February 19th

12:15am (ET)
Approx. 39 min.
"The Fifth Assassin" 
Brad Meltzer

1am (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
"Scoop: The Evolution of a Southern Reporter" 
Jack Nelson

2am (ET)
Approx. 53 min.
"Catastrophic Care: How American Health Care Killed My Father - and How We Can Fix It"
David Goldhill

3am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 29 min.
"The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness" 
Michelle Alexander

4:30am (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
"Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare From Ancient Times to the Present" 
Max Boot

5:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 20 min.
"Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865" 
James Oakes

7am (ET)
Approx. 48 min.
"The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster"
Jonathan Katz