Learn how a handwritten letter differs from other forms of direct communication. You'll explore the similarities between letters and the epistolary essay as they both speak to a specific audience and convey a strong sense of reality and veracity. Then, you'll consider passages from the best-selling book Between the World and Me, which is written as a letter to the author's son.

Director Bruce McDonald explores living in a northern Ontario native reservation. This Canadian drama based on a book by W.P. Kinsella, examines the tension between Native Canadians and Anglos in Canada from a Native perspective. Silas Crow, who lives on a Northern Ontario reserve, wants to take a mechanic's course in Toronto with his friend Frank Fencepost. But before he can enroll, the teen must write a short narrative describing his home. The film...

It tells the imaginative story of a young girl and the Giant who introduces her to the wonders and perils of Giant Country. The BFG, while a giant himself, is a Big Friendly Giant and nothing like the other inhabitants of Giant Country. Standing 24-feet tall with enormous ears and a keen sense of smell, he is endearingly dim-witted and keeps to himself for the most part. "Spielberg offers a gallery of unforgettable images to illuminate a surprisingly...

Now college graduates, friends from Tree Hill face the adult world.

Follows the adventures of Cory Matthews, his friends, and his family as he tries to survive high school.

Everyone's favorite super heroic teen team of Robin, Cyborg, Raven, Starfire, and Beast Boy in all-new, comedic, eleven-minute adventures highlighting the hijinks they get into when they aren't out saving the world. In between the big fights with supervillains, the team's dynamic personalities ensure that even downtime at the Tower or a trip to the movies promises extreme (and extremely funny) fun.

Explores the lives of teenage half brothers Lucas and Nathan Scott, one a golden boy and the other an abandoned illegitimate child as they try to coexist in the small town of Tree Hill.

A wealthy heir to an oil fortune trades places with a humble ski instructor; when life on his Texas ranch is torn apart by an Indian uprising, Pacer, whose mother was Indian, is caught between the two worlds; a country boy in Florida sings songs as he romances several pretty young women; a love triangle develops when a redhead arrives on the riverboat where Johnny and girlfriend Frankie are the singing entertainment; a boxing promoter becomes jealous...

Living among the ordinary citizens of the infamous New Mexico city of Roswell are four teenagers who are not there by choice. Max, Isabel, Michael, and Tess are humans with extraordinary gifts. They are human/alien hybrids, sent here as replacements for the royalty of an alien race. This year the show will be built around around the relationships between human and aliens.

For over thirty-five years, Soul Train was a national institution, the premier U.S. television show for showcasing the latest names in the world of black music--Container.