Author Topic: The best movie to show in class - high school (Read 8589 times)

wiggum2012 · « **Reply #60 on:** July 07, 2011, 03:18:40 pm »

There was a chapter in my high school textbook about American football, so now at the end of the semester I am showing them "The Blind Side." The students are way more into it than I thought that they would be. It also is a good perspective on contemporary social issues in American culture.

For the first grade students, I have been showing them episodes of the TV show "Lost." The story line definitely holds their attention and they are interested because there are two Korean characters who speak in Korean. I think the actress has even starred in some Korean films.

hsinkr2011 · « **Reply #61 on:** October 18, 2011, 12:00:41 pm »

Quote from: thaivle on July 03, 2011, 04:43:01 pm

I teach at an all girls high school and this past week i showed them high school musical. Its not typically how American high schools are, but they really enjoyed it and especially the sing-a-long version

What did you do with them afterwards? Can you tell me how you laid out your class? I'm thinking about using HSM for class as well.

juliana.ip · « **Reply #62 on:** October 18, 2011, 03:01:30 pm »

These recommendations are all great. Thanks!

I've planned to start "Sydney White" with my middle school, after-school kids this week. I hope it goes well.

I have one concern: would it be best to have English or Korean subtitles while the students watch?

And where do you get the movies? I downloaded Sydney White off youtube =P and it already had English subtitles on it. But I'm looking for a DVD rental place, and hopefully, they'll have English movies with Korean/English subtitles. Are there any particular DVD rental stores that anyone has to recommend?

megu · « **Reply #63 on:** November 23, 2011, 09:42:33 am »

Quote from: SUTIIVE on July 04, 2011, 11:08:53 am

I want to show them something they probably haven't seen and thought Scott Pilgrim vs. The World might be good. IT's PG13, had music, comedy, romance and fighting...and it has pop-up writing on the screen (that Koreans seem to love lol) and an element of video games too. Surely that covers pretty much all bases for every possible school.
I work at a Girls' High School but I think they'll like it. I doubt many have seen it before.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/scott_pilgrims_vs_the_world/

http://youtu.be/O_RrNCqCIPE

Hi SUTIIVE,

I'm curious about how your high school girls responded to Scoot Pilgrim vs. The World.

I work at a girls high school too and I'm trying to find an interesting movie that they haven't all seen a million times before. Thanks!

Logan.kruck · « **Reply #64 on:** November 23, 2011, 10:25:29 am »

Quote from: megu on November 23, 2011, 09:42:33 am

Quote from: SUTIIVE on July 04, 2011, 11:08:53 am
I want to show them something they probably haven't seen and thought Scott Pilgrim vs. The World might be good. IT's PG13, had music, comedy, romance and fighting...and it has pop-up writing on the screen (that Koreans seem to love lol) and an element of video games too. Surely that covers pretty much all bases for every possible school.
I work at a Girls' High School but I think they'll like it. I doubt many have seen it before.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/scott_pilgrims_vs_the_world/

http://youtu.be/O_RrNCqCIPE

Hi SUTIIVE,

I'm curious about how your high school girls responded to Scoot Pilgrim vs. The World.

I work at a girls high school too and I'm trying to find an interesting movie that they haven't all seen a million times before. Thanks!

Megu,
Scott Pilgrim went over really well in my guy/girl afterschool class. There is a great female presence in the movie, and it's weird enough for both to like. They laughed at many of the parts, and loved the crazy effects in the movie. I suggest Korean and English Subs, because the movie's transitions are not smooth and sometimes jumble together.

megu · « **Reply #65 on:** November 23, 2011, 12:57:26 pm »

Thanks, Logan.kruck. In that case, I will probably give it a whirl this winter camp~

megu · « **Reply #66 on:** December 11, 2011, 12:21:54 pm »

...I decided that day 3 of my camp will have a 'fairy tale' theme. Students will discuss and do activities based around fairy tales/the conventions of fairy tales (e.g. characters, themes, plot). In groups they'll create their own fairy tale, write a script and finally perform their fairy tale.

I choose Penelope (2006) for my high school girls to watch. We'll watch the movie in three sections over 3 days. For each section there is a worksheet (attached).

sodami77 · « **Reply #67 on:** December 11, 2011, 02:54:29 pm »

Thanks for recommendation.
I would love to watch thoes movies and use them my future classes.
Btw, in my experience, do not show to middle school students "Bridget Jone's Diary".
Specially, boys don't like it, some scenes are awkward. After all, I expected discussion about these days people think of marriage, but they don't care for now.

chapathee · « **Reply #68 on:** December 12, 2011, 09:29:58 am »

SUPERBAD!

Not that animation thing, the one with McLOVIN!

Admittedly this was in an all boys high school... BUT, they LOVED it, and they learned a lot about their high school brethren in the west. ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

_largo_ · « **Reply #69 on:** December 13, 2011, 12:17:32 am »

Excellent stuff!

#basedcowboyshirt · « **Reply #70 on:** December 13, 2011, 11:13:04 am »

Quote from: chapathee on December 12, 2011, 09:29:58 am

SUPERBAD!

Not that animation thing, the one with McLOVIN!

Admittedly this was in an all boys high school... BUT, they LOVED it, and they learned a lot about their high school brethren in the west. ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

As much as I love Superbad, I feel like that's absolutely inappropriate to show in a school setting.

nataliekristin · « **Reply #71 on:** December 14, 2011, 08:57:06 am »

I have High School students with a decent mixture of girls and boys. Two movies that went over really well with the kids were Transformers and X-Men. There is just enough fighting for the boys to be entertained and enough love stuff for the girls to follow it.

SUTIIVE · « **Reply #72 on:** December 16, 2011, 08:35:44 am »

I have repeatedly given my students movie choices covering the full range of genres and every time...they want a scary movie.

So far:
Zombieland
Shaun of the Dead
Scream

They RACE into class to see it faster than they race in to see Justin Bieber MVs.

I work one of the top Girls' High Schools in my province.

lostprofit · « **Reply #73 on:** December 16, 2011, 09:02:57 am »

Just a quick question, but has anyone tried showing the goonies?

twolven · « **Reply #74 on:** December 16, 2011, 11:10:03 am »

Last year, my students (ages 9-12) LOVED Kung-Fu Panda.. it opens the door to talk about family, friends, characteristics of people. I liked to open with "If you were an animal, then what would you be?"

Introduce IF/THEN statements and get opinion coversations started. Later, I learned that if you ask that about their friends/ peers it works quite well.

Also, I was surprised to see that most of my students (high schoolers) this year loved to watch "The Nightmare Before Christmas". Everyone was quite and even said "sshhhh!!" to other students who talked during the movie.. although... almost no one talked ever.

We used it to talk about holidays, romance, and fears. I gave them a movie question sheet to make sure they paid attention, but it was good to show them after taking exams.. they poor kids were burned out.

Blood Glutton · « **Reply #75 on:** December 19, 2011, 01:37:07 am »

Played Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (with KOR subtitles) for my all-boys' middle school's last club activity.
They loved it.

kjmerri2 · « **Reply #76 on:** February 13, 2012, 02:50:44 pm »

I stopped reading posts about 2 pages in. If any of these are repeats, I apologize.

I teach HS boys (Tech/ Maritime). Things I've tried in the past few years:

Moon = surprisingly, they really liked this. I think the fact that it's not well known made it more interesting.
Yesman = any of the boy's who hadn't already seen it loved it
Secret Lives of Bees = pretty good; they thought Dakota Fanning was hot.
27 Hours = Mixed reactions; most liked it.
Food Inc. = Mixed reactions; most liked it. A LOT of students came back later to tell me they think more about what they eat now.
Bride and Prejudice = lol, I forced them to watch this, because I got tired of them pulling up slasher movie left-overs from other teachers. More boys than I expected actually like it.
Australia = Mixed reactions
That's What I Am = Not sure; I think they were just happy to have something different to watch. Okay, though.
Source Code = Loved it.
Elf = Most liked it.

That's all I can remember for now. For the most part, I've tried to pick things that are outside of their typical tastes. If they didn't absolutely love it, they at least seemed to appreciate the change of pace. I plan on showing them "The Invention of Lying" this week...if I ever have an actual class with them...

CorbenDallas · « **Reply #77 on:** February 17, 2012, 11:56:22 am »

A Knight's Tale was great... except it was a bit akward when you see Chaucer's butt.

annekat · « **Reply #78 on:** March 12, 2012, 03:26:00 pm »

I showed Fido (2006), it's a friendly zombie movie. There is very little blood/gore and it's pretty much all funny. The students LOVED this movie. (middle school)

They also liked Gremlins.

chrisashton18 · « **Reply #79 on:** April 19, 2012, 10:25:14 am »

Stuart Little went down a storm for me! Great movie to introduce family members and friends - which I did with my middle school grade 1's. If you can find a copy with Korean subtitles it helps a lot!

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