FILMS THAT TEACH?
Well... that is a question that has being arround teacher´s mind for a several time and my answer is...DEPEND ON THE AIM.
Today we have finished to wach the film "Mulán"(I have said finish because we stated to wach it the previous lesson).
The objetive of this session was to analize deeperly the film in order to find out what was the message from the film. To do that, the teacher gave us some question to help us to gide through the topic we had to be focuss on.
After that we had time to write some ideas about the positive, negative and neutral aspects from the topics of the film. The people who had the same topic, had to be in groups and compare the aspects. aften a few minutes talking a menber of each group had to explain the ideas of the group.
In my case, our group had to talk about the moral of the film.
This were our conclusions:
- POSITIVE ASPECTS:
- To fight in order to get your objetives.
- To aware the people about women´s role in China
- Self confidence
- Importance of the family
- Women can fight as a men
- To be corageous against adversities.
- NEGATIVES ASPECTS:
- Dificult for the women to do the same than the men.
- the emperator doesn´t care about father´s illness
- NEUTRAL ASPECTS:
- To have a knowledge about the China´s culture.
- The idea of not follow the orders. It can be good, like the film, or bad when the things don´t go well. Does the aim justifie the way?
I really enjoyed this activity, it is different and I think we can do the same with some films in 6th grade, it will be interesting to know the reation of the students.
Don´t you think?
