Today I went in to sub for another teacher and found a new offer in my mailbox. LA Trade Tech wants to use our campus and our teachers to offer college level courses to our students and members of the community.
You have to have a Masters or a PhD in the subject you want to teach, but you can teach any subject as long as the class fills and it's offered in the course catalog. It's also good money for six hours a week after school. I'd still be getting out of work at 5:30.
So I went - hey! I have an MA in creative writing! Rock!
And I put my name down. There are two courses I'd love to teach - Creative Writing and Literature in Film. Both sound Awesome.
Creative Writing would be easy. I pretty much teach that already.
But I was on the way home thinking about how cool it would be to teach a film analysis class. According to the course description "Literature in Film" just means the study of film as a storytelling medium, not just a study in adaptations. And in my head I was thinking of really cool stuff I could show and screenplays we could study.
Then I got home and looked at my collection. And I panicked.
I don't own all the classics. Hell I only own three films that were shot before 1992. I own three comedies, 13 dramas, one horror, one horror comedy, two musicals, 24 action films and The Princess Bride.
I could make an entire course out of superhero movies, but I'm pretty sure that's not what I'm supposed to be doing.
I do not own Citizen Cane or Casablanca or The Godfather or any of those classic films we're all supposed to know and love.
So if I get this job I'm gonna need to run to Best Buy for a shopping spree. Then I'm going to have to figure out what to teach.
So far I have the three movies I just mentioned above and Rope. And Birth of a Nation. And maybe Glenngarry Glenn Ross. And probably Memento and Hero and Rocky and Brick.
Any other suggestions?
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