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NEWS - April 2005

Arctic Fever!
10 students from across North America set off on an expedition of a lifetime, camping, not on land, but on the frozen ice of the Arctic Ocean. Their goal is to experience one of our planet’s best kept secrets and to learn how we can better live in harmony with the natural world. We witness how they foster a new understanding and respect for the planet and for each other. In this way, we will not only be left with the excitement of the journey, but with insight on how the members of the group gain fresh perspectives, connect with the natural world, and increase their awareness of the earth as a global ecosystem.

Watch the documentary as it airs as part of Sprockets, the International Film Festival for Children. Audience members can participate in a Question and Answer session immediately following the 1 hour documentary. Arctic Fever airs Monday May 2nd at 9:45 and Wednesday May 4th at 1:15 pm at the Famous Players Canada Square at Yonge and Eglinton.

Red Maple Reading Award
Thursday May 5, 2005 at the St. Lawrence Market.
Sponsored by the Ontario Library Association, the Red Maple Reading Award is an annual reading incentive program where young people in grades 7 & 8 participate in selecting the best Canadian Young Adult Book published that year from a list of 10 fiction titles and 6 non-fiction titles. Each participant registers for the program at their school or public library and reads a minimum of five books from either list (or both!) On April 23, Canada Book Day, they vote for their favorite title and the winner is announced at the Awards Celebration May 5, 2005.

Reach for the Top!
"Reach for the Top", Canada's longest running TV quiz show featuring high
schools students will be taping the Ontario provincial finals on May 15 & 16 in Toronto. School groups and individuals are invited to be part of the studio audience to share the excitement and experience. It's also a great way to
see how a big TV quiz show is produced. Join the fun in our Scarborough
studios May 15 & 16. Come out and cheer for your favourite team. You’ll
have a chance to win terrific door prizes. For free tickets or to book
your class, call the audience ticket line at 416-484-2644 or e-mail
lwan@tvontario.org. Don’t miss the action. Space is limited.

TVO and the Kids Help Phone
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Kids can tune in between 5:00 and 6:30 p.m. on the last Friday of every month and chat with Milton and the Kids Help Phone counsellor about issues that matter.

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Featured Resources

Featured upcoming TVO programming and teacher resources

All downloads are in Microsoft Word format. "Teacher resource" refers to background information and serves as a guide to using TVO programming in your classroom.
"BLM 1" refers to viewing questions. "BLM 2" refers to Assessment and Evaluation suggestions.

THE VIEW FROM HERE: THE CORPORATION

wed april 6, 13, 20 AT 10 PM (three parts)

The Corporation addresses three different themes. In the first program, The Pathology of Commerce, filmmakers examine the pathological self-interest of the modern corporation. Planet Inc. looks at the scope of commerce and the sophisticated, even covert, techniques marketers use to get their brands into our homes. The final program, Reckoning, examines how corporations cut deals with any style of government - from Nazi Germany to despotic states today - that allow or even encourage sweatshops, as long as sales go up.

-repeats the following Sunday at 10 PM

Intermediate

Civics: CHV2O
Business: BBI1O/2O
English: ENG1D/P, ENG2D/P

Senior

Philosophy: HZT4U
Social Sciences and Humanities: HSB4M
Canadian and World Studies (Economics): CIE3M
Canadian and World Studies (Politics): CPC3O, CPW4U
Business (Entrepreneurial Studies): BDI3C
Business (International Business): BBB4M/E
Business (Marketing): BMI3C
Business (Organizational Studies): BOH4M, BOG4E
English: ENG3U/C/E, ENG4U/C/E
English (Media Studies): EMS3O

For teacher resources prepared by OISE/UT , please click on the link:

teacher resources

THE VIEW FROM HERE: EL CONTRATO

WED APRIL 27 AT 10 PM

Guest workers spend up to 8 months on the tomato fields of Leamington Ontario, brought to Canada by the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program. They are thousands of miles away from their homes, their wages are low, work conditions are appalling, the work is long and gruelling, they’re confined, subjected to racism and exposed to toxic chemicals without protection.

- repeated the following Sunday at 10 PM.

Intermediate

Religious Studies: HRE10, HRE20

Senior

Social Sciences and Humanities: CHH3C/E, CH3T, CHI4U, HSB4M

download: (Word.doc)

teacher resource | blm1| Viewer Guide (NFB)

LIFE LESSONS: PERSON TO PERSON WITH PAULA TODD

SATURDAYS AT 4:30 PM

One on one interviews with people of courage. April is Cancer Awareness month, so this month we feature five individuals on our theme: Living in Spite of Cancer.

April 2: Alastair Cunningham - PhD scientist turns to spirituality after colon cancer.

April 9: Joan Bodger - Author who is diagnosed with cancer, confronts her death with optimism.

April 16: Fiona Nelson - Educator refuses to give in to liver cancer or chemotherapy.

April 23: Rafael and Eriko - Husband and wife struggle with his impending cancer death.

April 30: Kevin Hearn - The Barenaked Ladies' keyboardist Kevin Hearn beats leukemia and his odds for survival.

- repeats the following Sun at 5 AM.

download: (Word.doc)

teacher resource | blm 1

Also, be sure to watch a Special One-Hour Presentation:
Person 2 Person with Paula Todd:
Life Through the Eyes of a Woman with Alzheimer Disease.
tues april 5 AT 8 PM

On Studio 2, we will be presenting a special one-hour Person 2 Person with Paula Todd during which an articulate and incredibly passionate Brenda Hounam shares the feelings and insights she has experienced in the five years since her diagnosis.

(This episode will repeat at 11:30 PM the same night and 2:30 PM the next day.)

distinguished artists

saturdays beginning april 2 at 4 pm, repeated the following sunday at 4 pm

Distinguished Artists, produced by Humber students in partnership with TVO is a new series that takes us inside the careers and lives of familiar Canadian faces. The series of 13 half-hour programs were created by students in the School of Media Studies and Information Technology. Lorne Frohman hosts the informative chat-style interviews modelled after the popular Inside the Actor's Studio. The faculty professor and writer-producer goes one on one with artists such as stage and screen actress Fiona Reid, author Paul Quarrington, and jazz musician Jane Bunnett, as well as international figures such as Joan Rivers. Students studying the profession of the featured guest make up the audience for each interview – and get to ask questions.

saturday night at the movies

saturday april 23 at 8 pm , repeated at 1 am

Begin your Saturday night with Cyrano de Bergerac: A 19th century classic becomes a movie starring Jose Ferrer in the 1950’s. Watch “The Interviews” between films at 10pm. Guests included acress Mala Powers from “Cyrano”, producer Daniel Melnick and sctors Rock Rossovitch and Fred Willard from “Roxanne”. End the night off with Roxanne, the re-make starring Steve Martin in the 1980’s.

submarines: sharks of steel

thurs april 7, 14 AT 7 PM

This series traces the history of submarines: from the first fantastic drawings of an underwater vessel in Greek mythology to the giant, nuclear leviathans that silently patrol our oceans today. Learn about the submarines, the work that their crews do and the way of life while on patrol.

serious jungle

sundays at 6:30 PM, beginning APril 24

In this reality series, a camera crew follows 8 children into the dark and unknown rain forests of Borneo. They must learn how to survive in the jungle, help build a refuge for orangutans and to return young orangutans back to the wild. Under the guidance of two veteran jungle guides and two medics, viewers follow the team of boys and girls, aged between 12 and 15, in the battle against the elements.

get outta town!

saturdays at 12:30 pm beginning april 2

This is a unique 13-part reality series that lets the viewer spend "a day in the life" of adolescents from one end of the planet to the other. Each city was chosen for its world-class appeal, educational value, and cultural diversity and include places like New York, Washington, Rome, London, Paris, Madrid, Athens, Lucerne, Munich, Costa Rica, Mexico City, Sydney, and Shanghai.

At each Get Outta Town! destination, the host teams up with a local teen to learn how the natives live, love, study, think, work, eat and play. The plugged-in "resident hosts" play tour guide to Barbara and Joe as they crash the coolest places, hear the latest music, and indulge in the "extreme" - canyoning in Costa Rica, skateboarding in Munich, shopping for bargains in Paris, just to name a few examples.

Given the recent Tsunami disaster in Southeast Asia, it is now more important than ever that teens learn the importance of global citizenship in our changing world. Get Outta Town! provides the perfect educational resource for exploring this theme by covering the key topics of - equity, diversity, interdependence and peace.

CANADA: A People's HiSTORY

mondays at 7 pm, beginning april 18

This comprehensive 17-part documentary explores Canadian History, from a look at the land and its occupants in 15 000 BCE, and continues to trace events from the 1800's to the 1990's.