Teacher Requesting Help! Uhm Again!

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Hi guys. I really hate to do this but I need your help again! I swear I’m not trying to make a habit, I’m just desperate and you are smart peoples who know some pretty random things :joy:

  1. Has anyone heard of a film called The Circle (not to be confused with the book!) If so, can you think of any questions I can ask my students about it (they’re year 11/12)? I have literally combed the internet and found nothing.

  2. Multi-modal presentations. What on Earth can you do on this topic with a student who already knows pretty much everything they need to know? :joy:

Thanks in advance, guys. I’m seriously stuck :joy: Also lowkey tempted to create a thread for me to ask people stuff to help with my students. Would anyone be open to being part of the answer team? (I’m 50-50 on doing this and only slightly joking).

Oh, and if this is in the wrong area again, really sorry. I’m typing this between classes :joy:

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Is this the one with Emma Watson? I didn’t watch it, but I remember when it came out.

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I’ve never heard of this film or book, but whenever I do know something about anything, you know I’ll always be there to shoot my mouth off in your threads. (>‿◠):v:

Hope someone has an answer for you on this! ( ˆ◡ˆ)۶ ٩(˘◡˘ )

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Make it about a topic which they’d never need to know. Like the history of Japanese scissors.

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Yes that one. All I can find about it is that apparently it was really bad so there’s almost no student text or activities I can find about it

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Thanks :blush:

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Love the answer :joy: Sadly not relevant to the question :sweat_smile:

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So, what is this class for? What do you talk about?

Also, it might help to watch the trailer?

Also, why The Circle and not some other movie? Did the school request it or something?

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English. So analysis of texts mostly. And we have nothing to talk about because there are no materials

Nope, that is the film chosen by the people in charge of making the syllabus

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Well, bummer XD

I suppose you could ask general questions like character motivations, or anything you might ask in a book club? You could look at book club questions?

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Where do I find those? ;-;

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When in doubt, look up lists.

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And there’s more where that came from.

Also search “list of questions for a book club”

Search “list of questions for film discussion”

https://teachwithmovies.org/discussion-questions-for-use-with-any-film-that-is-a-work-of-fiction/

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Hmm. I can try to use those one. It’s just that I have to ask “relevant” or “specific” questions about the plot or analysis. I can’t really do stuff like who was your fav character, what was shocking, what did you like, what do you think happens next without the higher ups getting a bit pissy because they’re not “good questions”. It’s why I don’t normally use those sorts of things ;-;

The stuff in quotations marks is what I have been told, not what I believe, just to clarify

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I see…so you seem to be in a bit of a pickle, huh? :sweat_smile:

Sounds like you need to watch the movie yourself first.

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I can’t. I have to buy it and I can’t afford that ;-;

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:melting_face:

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Seems a bit restrictive TBH. I know this is very much after the fact, and your classes are probably out by this point, but how can they expect you to do a unit/lesson on a movie you cannot show them?

There are so many other literary classics/modern classics that have been turned into movies and getting them would be free…

As an ELA teacher some possible “relevant” questions:

  1. What is the tone of the movie? How does it make you feel? (ELA standard )
  2. Whose point of view is the movie being shown from? How do you know? Why do you think they chose (pick a character) to tell the story.
  3. Is the main character one you can relate to? In what way(s)?
  4. What genre is the story? How do you know.

And if the people who planned this don’t like them, then ask them to help you come up with some that they feel are relevant.
By the way you’re presenting it it feels as if you’ve been dropped in the middle with little support, and I’m sorry if that’s the case. That’s never a good feeling.

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