Friday Night Movie Club
Sophomore English 2010
When a text grabs your attention; or when you are having a hard time sinking your teeth into assigned reading, seeing the world of the story from a different view can help. Families are often interested in moving beyond “nothing” as a response to inquires about what is going on in school.
Below are some suggestions for films that you / your student can watch to enrich their experience of texts we study in class. You are urged to be conscientious as several of the titles include violence, strong language, nudity, and mature themes. Those that are most extreme are marked with a ☠. The underlined title is a text we study in class; the titles below the underlining are movies that students could watch together, or with family members.
Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Flies (1963) – see the old one, NOT the new one (1990)!
Life Boat
Castaway
Macbeth
Scotland PA
Ran (a version of King Lear -- Don’t watch Throne of Blood because that is seen in class)
Scarface ☠
Men of Respect
“Harrison Bergeron”
Blade Runner
Brazil
Minority Report
Night
Hotel Rwanda
Sophie’s Choice
The Killing Fields
Schindler’s List
The Woman Warrior
Eat, Drink, Man, Woman
The Joy Luck Club
House of Flying Daggers
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Persepolis (Not a core text this year)
Children of Heaven
Chapters 1-3
Extensions
You will have the entire class period to work on the following activities. You must turn in two of the activities tomorrow. If you have time enough to do a good job on more than two you can earn a small amount of extra credit. Remember that Chapter 4 is due tomorrow, too. Extra credit may also be turned in on Monday.
Remember that every time you quote from the book, you need to give a citation that shows what page you found the quote. Put the page number in parenthesis after the quote.
Journalists Preparation: For your final project you will need to choose eight (8) important scenes from the whole book. You may not know what the most important scenes and symbols are yet, so you shouldn’t pick them all yet. As practice, pick six (6) scenes from the first three chapters. Draw the scene as you see it. Use a quote from the book as a caption for the scene be sure to give a citation e.g.: “Let him have the conch!” shouted Piggy, “let him have it!” (31) Is how to quote what Piggy says on page 31. After the quote, write a brief explanation of why you think this scene is important.
Beastie: On page 31 we learn that there might be a monster on the island with the boys. Find other quotes that address the presence (or not) of a monster on the island. Either write a half page detailed description of the “Beastie” or draw a picture of the monster. Write a one paragraph explanation of what role you think the monster plays in the lives of the boys on the island.
Piggies: Find and copy ten (10) quotes that describe Piggy the character and the pigs on the island. Make a chart or Venn Diagram that shows how they are the same and different. (You should have about the same number of quotes for the person and the animals.) After making your chart, write a short description of what the chart shows.
Fire: Find where in the book fire is mentioned. Choose a descriptive quote for each passage. Make a five coloumn chart like the one below.
| Quote | Source of the fire | Is the fire under control | What does the fire in this case do | Analysis (What could this symbolize?) |
| First quote (#) | | | | |
| Next quote, etc (#) | | | | |
Hunting: Hunting is a big deal. Find four quotes about hunting, have at least one quote from the point of view or in the words of at least two different characters (Jack and Ralph, for instance). After writing down the quote, explain what the quote shows the reader about the hunter, or about the person speaking.
Simon: What’s up with Simon? Reread pages 50-52 where he goes off by himself. Golding mostly tells us what Simon sees. An interior monologue is the words that a person is thinking in their own head. Write an interior monologue that shows what Simon is thinking when he goes off by himself. You can get some help understanding what kind of person Simon is from the essay on pages 211-217.
