In the Classroom: Making Old Movie Associations

This week we will be filming our Charlie Chaplin parody (did this for the first time last year) after a year-long study and also finish watching Chaplin’s final Little Tramp film, “Modern Times.” As we started it last week I was delighted when the kids immediately referenced “I Love Lucy” because it means they are watching other older videos. For those who don’t know them or just want to see them again, here are the two sequences:

Charlie on the assembly line in Modern Times.

[image error]

Lucy and Ethel on...