Remember the Titans (2000): Complete Movie Guide
- Grades
- Grades 6–10, Middle School, High School
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- P.E. & Health, ELA, Health
- Topic
- movie guide, football
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What's inside this resource
This 24-question movie guide will help your students get the most out of this powerful movie. This movie guide comes with an answer key. Ready to print and ready to use! Enjoy!
Movie overview: "Set in Alexandria, Virginia, in 1971, the fact-based story begins with the integration of black and white students at T. C. Williams High School. This effort to improve race relations is most keenly felt on the school's football team, the Titans, and bigoted tempers flare when a black head coach (Washington) is appointed and his victorious predecessor (Will Patton) reluctantly stays on as his assistant. It's affirmative action at its most potentially volatile, complicated by the mandate that the coach will be fired if he loses a single game in the Titans' 13-game season. The players represent a hotbed of racial tension, but as the team struggles toward unity and gridiron glory, Remember the Titans builds on several subplots and character dynamics to become an inspirational drama of Rocky-like proportions." - Amazon
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Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Students track plot events and character decisions in chronological order while viewing the film.
Students make inferences about a character's motivation (e.g. why Coach Boone connects the Civil War to his team's conflict).
Students compare and contrast changes in the football team before and after training camp.
Teaching tips
Distribute only the 2-page student version (pages 1-2) during viewing, and keep the answered version (pages 3-4) for grading or post-viewing discussion.
Pause after the inference and compare/contrast questions (9 and 11) for a short class discussion before continuing the film, since these require more than simple recall.
Skills covered
Chronological plot tracking — students answer 23 questions in the order events occur in the film.
Inference-making — one question directly asks students to infer why a character makes a specific connection (Question 9).
Compare and contrast reasoning — one question asks students to identify two ways the team changed after training camp (Question 11).
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Pages 3–4 repeat the same 23 questions from pages 1–2 with a full written answer filled in under each one.
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chronological viewing comprehension
inference from film
compare and contrast
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