#229. Film

, level: Senior
Posted by jack maw (jmaw@ galaxy.mb.ca).
Neelin High School, Brandon Manitoba Canada
Materials Required: Tape of Rebel without a cause
Activity Time: varies
Concepts Taught: teenagers

Show the film Rebel Without a Cause. The assignment is for students to discuss what they found out about the fifties from the fifties and to write about it as well as to decide how much influence they feel this movie had in establishing some of the styles and trends of the fifties. Another good movie would be Blackboard Jungle. You might look on this film as aggod example of the fear that a new group people known as teenagers had on the adult communoty.r