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Lesson 5
Aim: How can we sympathize with characters that are different from us?
Objectives: Students will
gain an understanding of the motivations behind characters and express their
understanding of characters that may think differently than they do.
Materials: Copy of the movie "East is East" (this movie explores the problems that foreign teenagers may feel growing up in a place with peers who have different traditions than they do. Another movie that may work is "Bend it Like Beckham" which also explores similar themes); Character chart to fill out during the movie
Procedure:
1. Have students
reflect on the conflicts that have been presented so far. (ideas include:
parents vs. children; fitting in to the society around them; trying to achieve
the American dream; losing oneself and one's culture) List them on the
board. Students should express where their sympathies lie.
2. Watch clips
from movie "East
is East". Students should answer questions
as they watch the movie. (I suggest renting the DVD so you can just show the
clips: Scene 1: Chapter 1; Scene 2: Chapter 2; Scene 3: Chapter 5/6; Scene4:
Chapter 8; Scene 5: Chapter 12; Scene 6: Chapter 16) See student
sample 1/ student
sample 2
3. Teacher should ask students to watch the movie from the point
of view of either the mother, father or kids. Instruct them to try to sympathize
with the character they are assigned to.
4. Believing game: write monologues for the characters. They can finish this for homework if time is limited.
Summary: Discuss the students' reactions to the problems that the kids in the movie must face and why they sympathize with the father (remember, they key to this lesson is for students to sympathize with the father even though they make think he is wrong in his actions; they should see that he is just trying to preserve his heritage in a place that is working against his efforts)
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