"Pride" is a pretty good AVID-Like movie starring Terrence Howard as a swim coach who coaches some inner city kids to be better swimmers and better people. It's all about goal setting and working together. It also has a theme of racial equality which goes hand in hand with Martin Luther King Jr.'s Holiday.
I like to stop the movie before pivotal scenes and do a quick philosophical chairs to see if students can predict how the scene will end (Will the hero win the race? Will the coach slug the bigot? etc).
After the movie is finished, we'll write a persuasive essay that answers this question, "Does the bigoted swim coach help make the inner city kids better?" We use Step Up To Writing curriculum because that's what our district uses. AVID writing curriculum is terrific and can also provide a plan for finishing an essay with kids.
Email me if you want to know the best way to get kids to read their essays to each other and get and give valuable feedback.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
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