Friday, January 1, 2010

Extra credit films

Rules: These are extra credit and can not replace the homework each are worth up to 10 points. If possible, to prevent points being taken off due to bad hand writing. You can also turn in hand written work but if I can’t read it you will get a 6 for trying. Copying another work either from another student or an online review or opinion will result in you getting no points for the assignment, if it is done twice your overall grade will be reduced to a 5.

You will be graded on if you have answered all the questions in complete sentences, if you prove that you understand the content of the film.

What you need to do: For each film the student must watch and then write a minimum of a one page, answering these questions, and for an extra points you can answer the question attached to the film. The extra points that can be eared depend on the question. Also when asked, you must name the source of your information. In the formats listed bellow

Book

Author Last name First name. Title, where it was published, who published it. Year of publication.

Johnson, K.V. Nightwalker. Canada, Orca publishers, 2007.

Internet site

Author. Title. Time when accessed. time of last update. Web address.

You can use this web page for other examples

http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/mla/sample.shtml

What is the film about?

In what country or countries does story take place in?

What time period does the story take place in?

What subjects does the story talk about?

What is the message of the story?

Do you agree or disagree with the message of the story and why or why not?

What is your favorite scene in the film and why

Did you like or dislike the film and why

The films are listed under general categories based on subject

These are only samples the rest of the films are posted online. If you do not have internet access please ask me for the whole list.

* Based on True events

Women’s rights

*North Country

What is the true story behind the movie? 10pt

Site your source

*What’s Love Got to do with it?

How is wife beating viewed in Romania 10pt

Site your source

Down with love

Mona Lisa’s smile

Can a woman have both a family and career? Why or why not 5pt

Does this film reflect the reality of Wellesley during the time the film takes place and if not what was the reality of the school during this time? 10pt

Site your sources

*Iron Jawed Angels

In what countries do women have the lest rights and in what countries do they have the most rights? 10pt

What is the history behind the movie? 10pt

Site your source

Human Trafficking

How common in Human Trafficking in Europe? 10pt

Site your sources

The Scarlet Latter

(Not the one with Demi Moor)

What is the meaning or meanings of the Scarlet A? 10pts

Human Rights

*Cry Freedom

What are the differences between the South African movement and the American movement? 15pt

Site your sources

The Color of Friendship

What do you think life would be like if you were an exchange student in America? 5pt

*Gandhi

*The Ghosts of Mississippi

Have there been other cases in the US where murders of civil rights workers were brought to trial in the late 20th or early 21st centuries? 10pt

Name your sources

*Mississippi Burning

* Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks: documentary

Do think that you would have had the courage shown by Rosa Parks? 5pt

Name another African American woman in America’s past that risked her life to save other’s. 10pt

Name your source

Who were the freedom riders and what dangers did they face? 10pt

Name your source

*The Great Debaters

Who were the real Great Debaters and what is their story? 10pt

Name your source

What was the importance of these events to the American Civil Rights movement? 10pt

Site your source

*Remember the Titans

Are all the events in this movie true? If not what did Disney change? 5pt

Name your source

What was real integration like in the American South? 10pt

Name your sources

To Kill a Mocking Bird

What is the importance of this story? 10pt

*Something the Lord Made

What is the true story behind the film? 10pt

Site your sources

American History X

How much does your family and culture effect how you see other people? 10pt

Name your sources

Environmental

Furngully: the last rainforest

How have things changed since this movie was made? 10pt

Name your sources

Once upon a forest

Medicine man

*Wild America

What is the true story behind this movie? 10pt

Name your Sources

Free Willy and Free Willy 2 and 3

1. What other animals help troubled children? 10pt

2. Where have there been major oil spills and what damage did they do? 10pt

3. How common is commercial whaling today and where is it legal and illegal? 10pt

Name your sources

Hoot

*Never Cry Wolf

What are the arguments concerning killing endangered predators and which argument do you agree with and why? 15 pt

Name your sources

The Day After Tomorrow

What facts prove climate change and what are the arguments against climate change? 10pt

What do you think about climate change and why? 5pt

AIDS

Philadelphia

What were the old beliefs about AIDS and are they true or not? 10pt

Name your Sources

*Life support

What is the true story behind the movie? 10pt

Do you agree with what the organization mentioned is doing? 5pt

Rent

In the Gloaming

*And the Band Played on

Genetics

Jurassic park

Gattaca

Multiplicity

American History

*Tombstone

*Wyatt Earp

In to the West

Sicko: documentary

Bowling for Columbine: documentary

Fahrenheit 9/11: documentary

*October Sky

What is the true story behind the film? 20pts

Site your sources

*Andersonville

*Chicano! History of the Mexican-American Civil Rights Movement

*Farewell to Manzanar

*Gangs of New York

A River Runs Through it

*A League of their Own

What is the real story behind the move and how accurate was the movie in portraying the events? 20pts

Site your sources

Little Women

What is the story behind this movie? 20pts

Site your sources

Dirty Dancing

Why is the movie called Dirty Dancing 10pts

Forest Gump

What historical events does the movie portray? 10pts

Grease

What are the differences between the film and the play?15pts

Site your source

Field of Dreams

What does the voice mean when it says, “If you built it he will come” 10pts

Other

*A Beautiful Mind

What is the true story behind the movie 20pt

Site your source

Alice adventures in Wonder Land

The Wizard of OZ

Big Fish

Bruce Almighty

Good Will Hunting

Hook

Mr Holland’s Opus

What historical moments are portrayed in the movie? 10pts

The Shawshank Redemption

Contact

Do you believe there is life on other planets? 10pts

Secondhand Lions

Who are the Secondhand Lions? 5pt

What is the meaning of the last line in the movie? 5pt

Simon Birch

The Guardian

At the end of the movie pictures of what event are shown

Renaissance man

Titanic

What was the result of the sinking of the Titanic? 10pt

Site your sources

Under the Tuscan Sun

*White Squall

What is the story behind the movie? 20pt

Site your sources

No comments:

Post a Comment