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Learning with a spoonful of sugar” is how school board member Nancy Reeve described an offer from the manager of the Mountain Magic Cinema to incorporate film classics into an educational enrichment program for Rappahannock’s public schools.
“I’m trying to schedule films that bear a direct relationship to your educational program,” Freeman Allen told the county school board at last Tuesday’s meeting.
He reported that he has ‘‘The Yearling” and “Captains Courageous” planned for fall, both base'1 on classical novels generally read by junior high and high school students. He added that he’d also located a good print of “Shenandoah,” the feature shown every year to seventh graders as part of American history lessons, and has it scheduled for December with “The Black Stallion” coming at Thanksgiving.
Allen suggested that visits to the cinema in Washington supplement field trips, already curtailed to achieve the board’s goal of a 10 per cent fuel reduction. “Basically, it doesn’t take any gas at all to get to Washington,” he said.
He also offered the theater for use in fund raising activities for the seventh grade’s annual trip to Williamsburg, proposing that kids sell S20 discount ticket books, keeping $5 out of each sale for the trip fund. In addition, he volunteered the theater’s stage for student readings of Shakespeare and other class related activities.
If a teacher wants a particular film, Allen continued. he needs four to five
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