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Dennis D. Martin wrote: > > I must object to proposing the movie version of Eco's _Name of the Rose_ > as useful for the eleventh-grader's project. The movie only perpetuates > the worst caricatures everyone else on the list has been trying to > overcome. Whether the novel itself is useful, I question--it certainly is > less useful than many of the secondary sources already suggested, but the > movie is certainly a caricature of the novel. I knew this was coming. However, I have taught students ranging from average high school to "quality" college-level, and we must not confuse their levels of learning. The way I see that movie as striking an 11th-grader is more advantageous than disadvantageous for understanding certain aspects of the Middle Ages. A scholarly book or article that bores them and goes unread is useless. You have to get them interested before they will read anything useful. I would not waste a college student's class time showing this movie though I might comment on it briefly in class. D. Shepherd %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%