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.
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
*
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
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
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
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
*Gandhi
*The Ghosts of
Have there been other cases in the
Name your sources
*
* 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
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
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
*
*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
*
*Chicano! History of the Mexican-American Civil Rights Movement
*Farewell to Manzanar
*Gangs of
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
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
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
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