Dinner and a Movie
Synopsis
The dinner and a movie model allows students to view and reflect on full-length films that are relevant to what we are currently studying. The films will be shown after school in the interest of time. Students will be more likely to attend films that are modern in addition to receiving participation credit (this should be extra credit because it takes place after school). Bring popcorn and punch. If your budget permits, you can buy pizza (everyone loves pizza).
Waiting for Superman
Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim reminds us that education "statistics" have names: Anthony, Francisco, Bianca, Daisy, and Emily, whose stories make up the engrossing foundation of Waiting for Superman. As he follows a handful of promising students through a system that inhibits, rather than encourages, academic growth, Guggenheim undertakes an exhaustive review of public education, surveying "drop-out factories" and "academic sinkholes," methodically dissecting the system and its seemingly intractable problems. (imdb.com)
The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Superman
A group of New York City public school teachers and parents wrote and produced this documentary in response to Davis Guggenheim's highly misleading film, 'Waiting for Superman.' 'The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Superman' provides a critique of an increasingly free-market driven education system, the undermining of teacher unions and overall faith in the idea that charter schools are just what the country needs. The film highlights the real life experiences of public school parents and educators and takes a holistic look at education reform.(imdb.com)
The 13TH
An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality. (imdb.com)
The Central Park-5
A documentary that examines the 1989 case of five black and Latino teenagers who were convicted of raping a white woman in Central Park. After having spent between 6 and 13 years each in prison, a serial rapist confessed to the crime. (imdb.com)
Rosewood
Dramatization of a 1923 horrific racist lynch mob attack on an African American community.
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