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BRIAN'S SONG


SUBJECTS --- Sports/Football; U.S./Diversity;
SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING --- Friendship; Grieving;
MORAL-ETHICAL EMPHASIS --- Respect and Caring.

Age: 10+; MPAA Rating: G; Drama; 1972; 74 minutes; Color.

Brian Piccolo
Brian's Song tells of the friendship between professional football players Gale Sayers, who was black, and Brian Piccolo, who was white. The tale ends with Piccolo's tragic death from cancer.

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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 supplement school curriculum or for homeschooling, we have set out below a discussion question from the Learning Guide to Brian's Song.

Why was the fact that two men of different races could room together and become friends so important that it was a major theme in this true-to-life film? What does that say about race relations in the United States in the late 1960s, the time of the events described in this film?


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