|
Create Lesson Plans Based on Movies and Film
WARM SPRINGS
SUBJECTS --- U.S./1913 - 1945;
SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING --- Courage, Disabilities;
MORAL-ETHICAL EMPHASIS --- Responsibility; Caring.
Age: 12+; No MPAA rating but we think it would probably be rated PG; Drama; 2005; 120 minutes; Color.
|
|
|
This film describes Franklin Roosevelt's struggle against the effects of polio and his leadership in the development of a convalescent community at Warm Springs, Georgia. It shows an important stage in the development of his character. The movie highlights the innovations, mostly psychological, in treatment for the disabled that Roosevelt pioneered at Warm Springs.
Warm Springs supplemented by this Learning Guide will: (1) acquaint students with the most important U.S. President of the 20th century; (2) demonstrate how FDR's disability helped strengthen his character and gave him empathy for the suffering of others; and (3) enhance learning about Roosevelt's policies to combat the Great Depression by suggesting interesting parallels between the New Deal and the therapeutic community that Roosevelt helped construct at Warm Springs. The film is well researched and in many respects historically accurate. Like all historical fiction it takes dramatic liberties by telescoping many events into one or mixing up the time sequence. However, with the two exceptions [described in the Helpfuld Background section of the Learning Guide], the movie is a reasonably accurate portrayal of the events that occurred from 1921 to 1928. It shows how FDR tried and failed to regain the ability to walk but discovered something more valuable within himself.
TeachWithMovies.com Learning Guides are used by thousands of teachers as lesson plans. They provide background and discussion questions that lead to fascinating classes. Parents can use them to supplement what their children learn in school.
Learning Guides feature the following sections:
|
|
- Benefits
- Possible Problems
- Helpful Background
- Building Vocabulary
|
- Discussion Questions
- Links to Internet
- Bridges to Reading
- Assignments & Projects
| |
New Learning Guides are added on a regular basis!
Warm Springs provides a visual presentation of the personal side of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
|
|
Just $11.99 per year gives you Learning Guides and Lesson Plans for 285 movies covering most of the K -12 curriculum!
Click Here to Subscribe.
"Learning Guides" help educators create lesson plans by providing background, discussion questions, projects, and vocabulary lists. "Movie Lesson Plans" are more formal with lectures, student handouts, comprehension tests and answer keys.
TeachWithMovies.com provides more than 285 Learning Guides and seven Movie Lesson Plans.
Check out the helpful indexes.
TEACHERS: A film or movie can be an alternative educational experience that highlights points covered by the curriculum. Each Movie Lesson Plan and Learning Guide will help you maximize the benefits that your class derives from watching and discussing the movie.
PARENTS: Watch the movie with your children and briefly talk about its message. Often, just one or two comments will make the film a meaningful experience. Your family will grow closer as all of you learn about history, culture and people. You will gain some positive control over screen time.
Unlock this international treasure for use by educators and parents. Subscribe for only $11.99 per year ($1 each month). Click Here
What do teachers and parents say about TeachWithMovies.com? Click Here
TeachWithMovies.com does not provide the movies or films.
|
|
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 just one of the discussion questions from the Learning Guide to Warm Springs.
QUICK DISCUSSION QUESTION: In the 1920s U.S. society relegated people who were paralyzed to the back room and assumed that they would live quiet, retired lives. What was FDR's reaction to these limitations?
Suggested Response: He fought against them and never succumbed to them. First, he worked very hard over many years to try to walk again. Second, he established a rehabilitation center and community of disabled people at Warm Springs. He developed new treatments and pioneered new attitudes toward the disabled. Third, he lived his life to the fullest, serving as governor of New York and President of the United States.
The Learning Guide to Warm Springs contains sections on Benefits of the Movie, Possible Problems, Helpful Background, Discussion Questions, Links to the Internet, and Bridges to Reading. The Discussion Questions are divided into three categories: Subject Matter, Social-Emotional Learning, and Moral-Ethical Emphasis.
A subscription to TeachWithMovies.com will give teachers access to 285 Learning Guides from which they can easily create lesson plans. Click here to subscribe and learn more about Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Warm Springs.
Already a member? Click here.
|
|
See our list of authors and contributors.
Click Here
Check out our:
TeachWithMovies.com is a "Six Pillars Partner" of Character Counts, a nationally recognized program that teaches ethics.
|
|
|
|
Spread the GOOD NEWS about TEACHWITHMOVIES.COM!
|
|
|
Copyright © 2004, 2006, 2007 & 2008 by TeachWithMovies.com, Inc. All rights reserved. DVD or VHS covers are shown by permission of Amazon.com and may be subject to copyrights shown thereon. The television set logo and the pencil and filmstrip logo are trademarks of TeachWithMovies.com, Inc.
|
|
|
|
|
|
