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Bend It Like Beckham
SUBJECTS --- Sports/Soccer (Football); World/England;
SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING --- Breaking Out; Parenting;
Romantic Relationships;
MORAL-ETHICAL EMPHASIS --- Trustworthiness; Respect; Caring.
Age: 13+; MPAA rated PG-13 for language and sexual content; Comedy; 2003; 112 minutes; Color.
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This story focuses on two English girls who want to play football (soccer) professionally. Jesminder (Jess) is from an Indian Sikh family that has recently emigrated to England. Julie is from a traditional English family. Each suffers from the prejudices of her parents. Jess' parents believe that playing football and displaying her legs to the world are not a proper role for a traditional Sikh girl. They forbid her to play. Julie's disinterest in things feminine and her friendship with Jess lead Julie's mother to believe that Julie is a lesbian. It all comes to a head at Jess' sister's version of the "Big Fat Sikh Wedding".
This movie shows girls serious about sports. The TeachWithMovies.com Learning Guide to this movie shows how to base a unit on the ethics of lying on the lies told by Jess, the heroine of this movie.
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In Bend It Like Beckham we see two girls who want to play professional soccer (football). Jess has a more difficult time than Julie because Jess' parents believe that playing football is not a proper activity for a Sikh young woman. They forbid her to play. The movie shows how how her family resolves this issue and returns to love and respect each other.
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To give you a sense of how our Learning Guides can be used by teachers as lesson plans and by parents to help kids understand the dynamics of making difficult ethical decisions, we have set out below a portion of a sample lecture on ethics to be given after children have seen Bend It Like Beckham.
LECTURE PROMPT: Jess lied to her parents but the movie leaves us with no doubt that she is basically a good girl who is going to be a responsible and honest adult who loves her parents. Is this realistic?
DISCUSSION POINTS: Yes. Most kids lie to their parents at some point. In this movie, Jess cared about her parents. But she lied to them anyway.
LECTURE PROMPT: Why do kids who love their parents lie to them on occasion?
DISCUSSION POINTS:
LECTURE PROMPT: Today we're going to talk about the process that people go through when they decide whether or not to lie or to commit some other act that violates rules of ethics. We're not talking about scripture or a rule that says lying is always bad. But we're going to explore the way that most people think when they make a decision involving ethics.
Except for extraordinary situations, lying is not good for relationships with other people. Lying divides and separates people. True friendship and real love suffer when one person deceives another. Would you want a friend who lied to you? Aren't friends supposed to be there for each other when things get rough? Who would want, as the significant person in their life, a boyfriend, girlfriend, husband or wife, a person they couldn't trust?
The failure to tell the truth is a sign of disrespect, because the liar is taking the position that the other person doesn't deserve to know the truth. Or, it can be a sign that the liar has no self-respect or is in a completely dependent position and feels that he or she has no other way to protect him or herself. That's not a description of a good friendship or a good loving relationship. At the end of this movie, Jess isn't lying to her parents any more and it's clear that she feels good about that.
In our discussion we're going to use two terms. The first is "value" . . . [and the second is "stakeholder"].
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