Media Menu for August 8, 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, August 8,  2013
9-10 p.m. E/P
Discovery
Science
Middle and High School

Sharkpocalypse

This documentary follows shark experts travelling the globe, diving with sharks to test several theories showing how humans could be causing an increase in Shark Attacks. After one of the most fatal years of shark encounters closely followed by the media, the program examines the alarming trend of sharks moving in closer to shorelines and debates whether there is a connection between declining shark populations and the increase in shark attacks. Hosted by Andy Casagrande and Devon Massyn. TV-14
Log on http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/shark-week/videos/air-jaws-apocalypse.htm

Friday, August 9,  2013
9-10 p.m. E/P
National Geographic Channel
World History and Science
Middle and High School

Lost Gold of the Dark Ages: Revealed

This documentary follows  the story of how an amateur metal-detecting enthusiast discovered a gold hoard of more than 1,500 artifacts dating back a millennium, and valued at over $5 million. The importance of the discovery is comparable to finding Tut's treasure. It addresses thee the mystery of where the gold came from, to whom it belonged and why it was buried.
Log on http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/a-night-of-exploration/episodes/lost-gold-of-the-dark-ages-revealed/

Saturday, August 10,  2013
9-10 p.m. E/P
PBS
World History and Geography
Elementary, Middle and High School

Globe Trekker: Nigeria

Airing on KLCS, this documentary follows  host’s journey to capital of Lagos, an anarchic and electric city with a vital night life. Responsible for giving us Afro Bati, Juju, and Fuji music among other genres. We visit The Shrine, a world famous night club and get a lesson on the Nigerian drums. Leaving Lagos we visit the south west of the country known as Yoruba Land, once home to one of the most powerful empires on the West African coast, and believed to be home to Queen Sheba's tomb. In Oyo, we visit the Calabash Carvers in the local market and meet witch doctors who explain traditional charms. In Oshobogo, the centre of Yoruban art we visit the massive sculptures and monumental shrine to the River goddess Osun. Northern Nigeria is the territory of the Fulani people and is predominantly Islamic. We visit the walled old cities of Zaria, Katsina, and Kano which is the oldest city in West Africa. Fifty thousand worshippers attend Friday prayers here at the central mosque. We hunt for bargains in the ancient Kurmi Market, a maze of alleyways and lanes. The Fulanis are a tall, aristocratic tribe, who weave their hair into plaits and mark their bodies and faces. We visit a traditional Fulani village in Chafe. We end our journey in the eastern highlands of the country, home to deep wooded valleys, waterfalls, the largest mountain in Nigeria, and where at least 4 separate gorilla populations have been discovered in recent years. Last off, we take to the hiking trails and spot a rare mountain gorilla
Log on http://www.pilotguides.com/tv_shows/globe_trekker/shows/africa/nigeria.php

Sunday, August 11,  2013
3-4 p.m. E/P
Science Channel
Science and Geography
Middle and High School

Rise of the Continents: The Americas

As shown in this documentary, The New World was the final piece in the formation of the Old World. The Americas crashed into each other and Africa 300 million years ago, creating a giant mountain range. Manhattan's skyline and the Americas' abundant mineral resources are the results. TV-PG
Log on http://science.discovery.com/tv-shows/rise-of-the-continents
   
Monday, August 12,  2013
7-8 p.m. E/P
PBS
Science and Geography
Elementary, Middle and High School

World Peace and Other 4th-Grade Achievements

Airing on KLCS, this documentary interweaves the story of a remarkable teacher and the extraordinary game he developed to demonstrate the complexities of peace and global conflict. Few teachers would expect their nine- and ten-year old students to be able to make political decisions about complex military, economic and environmental matters. But then few teachers are as unique as John Hunter. Hunter's extensive travel through China, Japan, and India, and his exposure to the Gandhian principles of non-violence, led him to ask what he could do as a teacher to work toward a more peaceful world. The result was the World Peace Game, a hands-on political simulation exercise that allows 4th-grade students to tackle real world issues on a global scale, including the imminent threat of war. The students are divided into groups, including nation states, the World Bank, United Nations officials, indigenous peoples and even arms dealers. Then they face daily challenges ranging from insurgencies and global warming to ethnic tensions and natural disasters. Working together, while also balancing the interests of their own "nations," they attempt to achieve global prosperity with the least amount of military intervention.
Log on http://www.aptww.org/IntlCatalog.nsf/vTitle/WORLD+PEACE+AND+OTHER+4TH+GRADE+ACHIEVEMENTS

Tuesday, August 13,  2013
7-8 p.m. E/P
PBS
Science and Geography
Elementary, Middle and High School

NOVA: Lizard Kings

Airing on KLCS, this documentary visits the world of the elusive, intelligent monitor lizard is explored through the efforts of lizard expert Eric Pianka, who tracks them in Australia's heartland via "lizard-cam" technology. They look like dragons and inspire visions of fire-spitting monsters. But these creatures with their long claws, razor-sharp teeth, and muscular, whip-like tails are actually monitors, the largest lizards now walking the planet. With their acute intelligence, monitors—including the largest of all, the Komodo dragon—are a very different kind of reptile, blurring the line between reptiles and mammals. Thriving on Earth essentially unchanged since the time of the dinosaurs, they are a very successful species, versatile at adapting to all kinds of settings. This program looks at what makes these long-tongued reptiles so similar to mammals and what has allowed them to become such unique survivors.
Log on http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/nature/lizard-kings.html

Wednesday, August 14,  2013
7-8 p.m. E/P
Discovery Channel
Science
Middle and High School

How the Universe Works: Expanded Edition

In this documentary, host Mike Rowe brings viewers on a tour of our current cosmic knowledge  that starts with the Big Bang and covers alien galaxies and solar systems, as well as the space-shattering properties of a supernova event. Specifically Rowe updates  information on the big bang.
Log on http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/other-shows/videos/other-shows-how-the-universe-works-videos.htm

Book TV Schedule

Saturday, August 10th

8am (ET)
Approx. 55 min.
"Nothin' But Blue Skies: The Heyday, Hard Times, and Hopes of America's Industrial Heartland"
Edward McClelland

9am (ET)
Approx. 3 hr.
In Depth: Ben Carson

12pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 59 min.
"The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South"
Vijay Prashad

2pm (ET)
Approx. 55 min.
"The Best of the Best of the University Presses"
Mutiple Panelists

3pm (ET)
Approx. 35 min.
Book TV in London: Judith Flanders
Judith Flanders

3:45pm (ET)
Approx. 29 min.
2013 Eagle Forum Collegians Summit: Greg Autry, "Death by China: Confronting the Dragon - A Global Call to Action"
Greg Autry

4:15pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 41 min.
"Act of Congress: How America's Essential Institution Works, and How It Doesn't"
Robert Kaiser

6pm (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
Katharine Graham, "Personal History"
Katharine Graham

7pm (ET)
Approx. 23 min.
Book TV at FreedomFest: Raj Sisodia, "Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business"
Raj Sisodia

7:30pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 18 min.
"The Brotherhood: America's Next Great Enemy"
Erick Stakelbeck

8:45pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 9 min.
"Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces"
Radley Balko

10pm (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
After Words: Leigh Gallagher, "The End of the Suburbs: Where the American Dream is Moving," hosted by Rich Benjamin, author of "Searching for Whitopia"

11pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 30 min.
"Deal with the Devil: The FBI's Secret Thirty-Year Relationship with a Mafia Killer"
Peter Lance

Sunday, August 11th

12:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 22 min.
"Rendezvous with Destiny: How Franklin D. Roosevelt and Five Extraordinary Men Took America into the War and into the World"
Michael Fullilove

2am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 21 min.
"The Pioneer Detectives: Did a Distant Spacecraft Prove Einstein and Newton Wrong?"
Konstantin Kakaes

3:30am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 1 min.
2013 Roosevelt Reading Festival: Allida Black on Eleanor Roosevelt's "Tomorrow is Now"
Allida Black

4:45am (ET)
Approx. 52 min.
"Frederick Douglass in Washington, D.C.: The Lion of Anacostia"
John Muller

5:45am (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

6am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 11 min.
2013 Book Expo America: Book and Author Breakfast
Ishmael Beah; Doris Kearns Goodwin; Chelsea Handler; Wally Lamb

7:15am (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

8:15am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 18 min.
2013 Harlem Book Fair: Legacies of Rosa Parks and Eslanda Robeson Panel
Mary Frances Berry; Barbara Ransby; Jeanne Theoharis

9:45am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 4 min.
"Southern League: A True Story of Baseball, Civil Rights, and the Deep South's Most Compelling Pennant Race"
Larry Colton

11am (ET)
Approx. 58 min.
"Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence"
Joseph Ellis

12pm (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
After Words: Susan Crawford, "Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age," hosted by Andrew Blum, Wired Magazine

1pm (ET)
Approx. 16 min.
Book TV at FreedomFest: Mark Skousen, "A Viennese Waltz Down Wall Street"
Mark Skousen

1:15pm (ET)
Approx. 10 min.
Book TV at FreedomFest: Jesse Walker, "The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory"
Jesse Walker

1:30pm (ET)
Approx. 23 min.
Book TV at FreedomFest: Raj Sisodia, "Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business"
Raj Sisodia

2pm (ET)
Approx. 31 min.
"Last Stand: Ted Turner's Quest to Save A Troubled Planet"
Todd Wilkinson

2:30pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 18 min.
"The Brotherhood: America's Next Great Enemy"
Erick Stakelbeck

4pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 16 min.
2013 Harlem Book Fair: A Conversation on Drug Use and Laws with Carl Hart and E.R. Shipp
Carl Hart; E.R. Shipp

5:15pm (ET)
Approx. 44 min.
"The Power Surge: Energy, Opportunity, and the Battle for America's Future"
Michael Levi

6pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.
Books on the Cost of Higher Education
Multiple Authors

7pm (ET)
Approx. 43 min.
2013 Roosevelt Reading Festival: Maurine Beasley, "Women of the Washington Press: Politics, Prejudice, and Persistence"
Maurine Beasley

7:45pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 4 min.
"Money, Gold, and History"
Lewis Lehrman

9pm (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
After Words: Leigh Gallagher, "The End of the Suburbs: Where the American Dream is Moving," hosted by Rich Benjamin, author of "Searching for Whitopia"

10pm (ET)
Approx. 59 min.
"For God, Country, and Coca-Cola: The Definitive History of the Great American Soft Drink and the Company That Makes It"
Mark Pendergrast

11:15pm (ET)
Approx. 34 min.
2013 Eagle Forum Collegians Summit: Stanley Kurtz, "Spreading the Wealth: How Obama is Robbing the Suburbs to Pay for the Cities"
Stanley Kurtz

11:45pm (ET)
Approx. 11 min.
2013 Book Expo America: Fall Book Preview with Richard Dawkins, "An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist"
Richard Dawkins

Monday, August 12th

12am (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
After Words: Leigh Gallagher, "The End of the Suburbs: Where the American Dream is Moving," hosted by Rich Benjamin, author of "Searching for Whitopia"

1am (ET)
Approx. 16 min.
Book TV at FreedomFest: Mark Skousen, "A Viennese Waltz Down Wall Street"
Mark Skousen

1:15am (ET)
Approx. 10 min.
Book TV at FreedomFest: Jesse Walker, "The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory"
Jesse Walker

1:30am (ET)
Approx. 23 min.
Book TV at FreedomFest: Raj Sisodia, "Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business"
Raj Sisodia

2am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.
Books on the Cost of Higher Education
Multiple Authors

3am (ET)
Approx. 56 min.
After Words: Leigh Gallagher, "The End of the Suburbs: Where the American Dream is Moving," hosted by Rich Benjamin, author of "Searching for Whitopia"

4am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 3 min.
"The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War"
Richard Rubin

5am (ET)
Approx. 43 min.
2013 Chicago Tribune Printers Row Lit Fest: Robert Lombardo, author of "Organized Crime in Chicago: Beyond the Mafia"
Robert Lombardo

5:45am (ET)
Approx. 12 min.
Book TV at Stanford University: Debra Satz, "Why Some Things Should Not Be for Sale: The Moral Limits of Markets"
Debra Satz

6am (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 15 min.
"Friend of the Court: On the Front Lines with the First Amendment"
Floyd Abrams

7:15am (ET)
Approx. 31 min.
Book TV in London: Antony Beevor
Antony Beevor