The Gettysburg address and note-taking on the film for essay writing (Remember The Titans)

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FILM VIEWING continues :

Significant moments to revise or consider - look at the way some characters are shifting their attitudes :

Boone on the camp at Gettysburg - significance of this place and time in history and the moral lesson for the present.

Segregation versus Integration :

First day at school - parents opposed to integration on buses.

What are your attitudes to this incident?

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Introduction The film Remember The Titans demonstrates how team work and determination can defeat racism

 

At the start of the film the problems of racism are obvious. None of the African American or white players will work together. They refuse to sit together until Coach Boone makes them sit together on the bus. At the camp and the school they fight each other. When they returned from camp the parents are not happy that the two groups seem to be friendly. On the first day of school the parents are protesting against the integration of schools. (add more examples and at least 2 quotes)

 

  Yet this anger changes as the two groups bond and understand each other. The Titans start to work together as a team after Coach Boone tells them about ‘Gettysburg’ a grave yard for young soldiers during the American Civil War. ‘If we do not come together we will be destroyed’ just like the soldiers were.  (at least 2 other examples and another quote)

 

Conclusion – sum up your main ideas related to topic and the director’s purpose.

 

 

‘You've taught this city how to trust the soul of a man rather than the look of him’ – try and use this in the conclusion – normally no quotes in the conclusion of an essay but some of you may be able to use this to show the film director’s purpose.

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1. ESSAY TOPIC

EXTRA HELP AVAILABLE in DIFFERENTIATION section of this learning bite - a modified essay structure.

See Resources below for essay topic, criteria and structure.

2. Note-taking on the Essay topic :  

FILM VIEWING continues

Significant moments to revise or consider - look at the way some characters are shifting their attitudes :

Boone on the camp at Gettysburg - significance of this place and time in history and the moral lesson for the present. Discuss Lincoln's original Gettysburg address.

Why does Boone refer to the deaths of so many Americans in the Civil War?

How does Gerry change after this? What evidence have you written about his changes? Consider how Gerry no longer respects Ray and why their friendship has changed.

STUDENT TASK - GROUP WORK :

1. List other scenes where there is confrontation between the two groups.

2. List scenes where problems and conflict begin to be resolved.

THEME  : Unity

Segregation versus Integration :

First day at school - parents opposed to integration on buses.

What are your attitudes to this incident?

Does it seem that nothing can change at this point despite all the work Coach Boone has done to unite the team?

Why does Coach Boone promote 'unity'? 

VIEWING :

1. The battle of Gettysburg American Civil war - VIEW first ten minutes of DVD Lincoln - the civil war scenes will not be viewed, fast forward to Lincoln's conversation with two African American soldiers. (DVD in D1)

2. Also view the following trailer - shows how Lincoln worked hard to end slavery in the South. The American people were divided in Civil War - the North and the South. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWhsOx5OXtc

3. REVIEW

Check your notes - have you written about changes from disunity (racism) to unity?Have you recorded a selection of quotes?

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