Stand And Deliver Movie Questions
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Stand and deliver movie questions. Write four articles for the. At the centre of stand and deliver are serious questions about race and class. Ramon menendez s stand and deliver is a film based on the true story of jaime escalante a teacher who inspired his underperforming students to master calculus. Directed by ramón menéndez.
This is a must see movie about how one teacher inspired and changed a challenging group of inner city students to take the ap calculus test. Points will be deducted for answers using incomplete sentences. If his students had been at one of the posh middle class schools their high marks would never have been questioned. There are 8 questions and at the end question 9 is a letter prompt where they take on the character of one of the main actors and write a letter as if they were the person.
Stand and deliver is inspirational to all students. In 2011 the film was deemed culturally historically or aesthetically. The real jaime escalante left a high paying job at an electronics corporation and became a teacher. This product is a quiz that goes along with the movie stand and deliver.
The questions in. This is a one page stand and deliver question sheet in english for the students to complete as they watch the movie. Escalante believes that his students have been singled out because of their racial origins. How to be a master student.
Other sets by this creator. Stand and deliver is a 1988 american drama film based on the true story of a high school mathematics teacher jaime escalante for portraying escalante edward james olmos was nominated for the academy award for best actor at the 61st academy awards. It has 25 questions that students will respond to in simple sentences answers and an optional essay that has a page long response which relates a personal situation to the movie. The story of jaime escalante a high school teacher who successfully inspired his dropout prone students to learn calculus.
Students will recognize and explain the literary devices of symbol foil and irony and the use of these devices to elucidate theme. There is a clear and obvious use of several literary devices. With edward james olmos estelle harris mark phelan virginia paris. The film won the independent spirit award for best feature in 1988.