GOALS AND OBJECTIVES

Standards 11.7 #2

DAY	CLASSWORK	HOMEWORK
MONDAY	Finish Film Thin Red Line	none
TUESDAY	Thin Red Line Questions U.S. History 1. How does the filmmaker use setting in this film? Describe the contrast between the scenery and actions of the people fighting there. 2. Describe the change in the village where Witt is hiding out in the beginning of the film and how the village is when he returns. What is the significance of this change? Explain. 3. In the film, the narrator states, “Maybe all men got one big soul, that everybody's part of-all faces are the same man, one big self”. Why does the film use actors who are very similar in appearance? What is the film maker trying to say? 4. What are the main characters (Witt, Captain, Nick Nolte, and Sean Penn) philosophical discussion in the movie, what drives them? 5. What is the contrast in the film between the 2 “fathers” (by fathers I mean the two primary commanders, Nick Nolte and the “Lawyer Captain”) in the film? 6. What is said about randomness and death? According to the guy who goes crazy early in the film and Sean Penn later on, what is the war being fought over? Explain. 7. How is this film similar to other war films? How is it different? 8. What does Nick Nolte’s character represent? What character is he similar to in Paths of Glory? Explain. 9. Explain, with 2 examples, how Sean Penn’s words do not always match up with his actions. He mentions that to not feel must be “bliss” in wartime. Explain. What does Witt represent to him and why does he want Witt to live so badly? 10. “War doesn’t ennoble men, it turns them into dogs…poisons the soul.” Explain this quote using one scene from the movie. 11. Sean Penn asks Witt, “What difference do you think one man can make in all this madness?” How does the movie answer this question through Witt’s actions? In Sean Penn’s actions? 12. Describe the type of warfare in the film. 13. What area of the world is this being fought in? What place? 14. How does this film depict heroism as well as the faults of people? Explain. 15. How does this film relate and counter some of the themes we have covered in this class about WWII?	Finish Questions
WEDNESDAY	Geography on WWII in Europe.	Finish Geography
THURSDAY	D-Day Invasion Video Clips	None
FRIDAY	Quiz	None

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