ASSIGNMENT FOR JUNIOR - COLLEGE STUDENTS
ALL OVER THE WORLD #21 – HELPS EXPLORE MORAL ISSUES OF THE TREATMENT OF PEOPLE
AND PERSONAL CONDUCT AND LACK OF AND TEACHES RELATIONAL VALUES BETWEEN.
THE ENGLISH TEACHER (RELEASED IN
2013)
Producer
Matthew E. Chausse, Naomi Despress, Ben LeClair, Robert Salerno and stars
Julianne Moore, Michael Angarano, Greg Kinnear, Lily Collins, Nathan Lane
Written
by Dan Chariton and Stacy Chariton
Julianne Moore as Linda
Sinclair
Michael Angarano as Jason
Sherwood
Greg Kinnear as Dr. Tom Slocum
Sherwood
Lily Collins as Halle Anderson
Nathan Lane as Carl Kapinas,
drama teacher
Jillian Lane as Jillian
Kapinas, drama director assistant
Carl Jessica Hecht as
Principal Trudie Slocum Sherwood
Norbert Leo Butz as
Vice-Principal Phil Pelaski
Nikki Blonsky as Sheila
Nussbaum
Erin Wilhelmi as Joni Gerber
Alan Aisenberg as Benjamin
Meyer
Charlie Saxton as Will Sophie
Curtis
Fiona Shaw as Fallon Hughes (voice..Narrator)
The synopsis of this movie and plot
reflects the intricacies of an act of indiscretion between a former student and
a teacher. Julianne Moore stars as Linda
Sinclair a high school English teacher in a small town called Kingston, Pennsylvania. Particular and choosy she finds it hard to
find a similar mindset and mate with a personality similar and compatible to
complement her own. Michael Angarano
stars as Jason Sherwood a former student of hers who returned to Kingston after failing as
a playwright. Linda convinces Jason to run his play at the high school to
enable more exposure and support his crushed confidence since the play is much
too good to not have a chance to be produced.
After, Linda and Jason impulsively have a
sexual interaction in a classroom on an office desk conflict and complications
arise due to the untimely exposure after having a verbal clash in the public
that was witnessed and filmed by a spectator.
Rumors and vicious speculation is viral and move fast over the campus
which puts Linda in a position of sexual harassment, slander, stress, and humiliation. After
the Head Council gets a whiff of the situation, Linda is fired and discharged.
Driven by emotional distress Linda’s erratic driving causes an accident and lands
her in the emergency room for medical assistance by none other than Jason's dad
Dr. Tom Sherwood who she admits to having had sex with his son (Jason).
Discovering the play has an expectancy to
amass over $18,000 for ticket sales, the Headmaster reconsiders Linda's
position and reinstates her with a request to have the ending of the play
rewritten. Jason refuses to rewrite the
play and the consequential composing of the end falls to Linda which she does
under stress, all is forgiven and Jason continues to write plays.
Later, Linda accepts an invitation to
dinner with Jason's dad.
Propose Extra Credit to teacher and ask if
you can do an oral presentation with students asking you questions to allow you
to become used to speaking in front of a crowd. This will teach you how to be
an orator and a great speaker one day.
The assignment is to watch the movie, answer the questions with emotional
feeling and thought and write an essay of the possible consequences of living
with the thought of yourself being caught up in hurting another human being so
bad they
cannot on go and who commits suicide. Can you live with yourself and the knowledge
that everyone has judged you as killer who put the bullet in the gun but didn’t
pull the trigger yourself but you are the prodder who egged and hounded them on
until they could not take it anymore?
Would you feel indifferent and why?
What has happened to the moralistic thought of caring and why did
everyone become uncaring of what the outside world thinks or feels about your
being the catalyst in this sad scenario?
By doing so you will develop stimulative comprehension, interpretative
comprehension, and thought comprehension. These are classified as starters and
teaching sessions.
Stimulative Comprehension - Consist of stimuli that encourages thought
patterns to emerge that facilitate understanding with more comprehension and
continuous thought.
Interpretative Comprehension - Consist of taking a thought and becoming more
analytical and interpretative of the intent whether clearly versed or hidden
and obtaining the intent to keep on.
Thought Comprehension - is the last step in assimilation because it takes in
account the stimuli and the reason (interpretative comprehension) and it will
facilitate considerable change and expanded thought that allows more
understanding and evolved thought patterns.
1. Generate Questions that incorporates using exploratory thought patterns and
will allow more concise assimilation.
2. Answers become more broadened, detailed and generate more interactive
ability and cognizant ability expands when continuing reading.
3. More ability to be analytical and upgradeable analysis and observational
skill will naturally expand as student grows and matures.
4. Summary and conclusionary thought of subject provide assimilative procedures
by using the supposedly common tools that are a base but is allowable to be
expanded to ensure more accurate reading and entails allowing thought processes
to increase.
QUESTIONS IN RELATION TO MOVIE
(STORY)
1. What is the purpose of
this story or movie?
2. What is the
teacher’s glorious mistake?
3. Is Linda a survivor?
4. How old is she?
5. Do you perceive her as brazen person?
6. Has Linda’s reputation been
compromised?
7. What is sexual harassment?
8. Is sexual harassment only
attributed as an offense against women? Or
is it an offense against men as well?
9. Are there restrictions or a
policy against intimacy between an ex-
student and a former teacher?
10. Do you believe they acted responsibly?
11. Did they think to restrain themselves and act as adults?
12. Was the level of passion exhibited hard to control?
13. Did they worry about getting caught?
Or the consequences for her
being a woman and a teacher?
14. Do you think there was a possible sexual attraction between them when
she was his teacher?
15. Who caught them and how?
16. Did Linda try to act more prudent and responsible after the liaison?
17. Do you think she felt shame later?
18. When Jason started flirting with a student (Haley) do you believe Linda
exhibited features of jealousy?
19. Are there laws about copulation in a school or where the act can be
visibly witnessed?
20. What is her character?
21. Is her behavior an act of mid-life crisis for a woman?
22. Is she ambitious?
23. Does Linda’s have a good rapport with her students?
24. What happened to this rapport after the shredding of her reputation?
25. Is she a good or excellent teacher?
26. Is she particular in her choice of a man? Why?
27. Is she restrained and proper in her nature?
28. Is she independent?
29. Does she live alone?
30. Do you think she is being overly cautious in her approach to living and
expectancy from people?
31. Is Linda proud of Jason?
32. Do you believe Linda loves teaching?
33. Does the assisting of exploration of high-brow literature continue to
thrill and enrapture her senses?
34.
Do you believe she is ever bored teaching and nurturing the students?
35. What kind of person do you think she is?
36. Is there a degree of tension and upset for Jason that makes Linda feel
for
him that opened the door to intimacy?
37. Do you think Linda should have learned to distance herself and
learned a
rigid control in these kinds of scenarios?
38.
Is she too protective?
39.
Does his dismal failure affect his confidence and assuredness?
40.
Does his success affect him terribly doing this play?
41.
Does he have any health problems?
42.
Why does the play figuratively position itself in Jason and Linda’s
relationship?
43.
Does Jason react to criticism badly?
44.
Does his reacting badly open the floodgates of sympathy in Linda’s
emotional bank?
45.
Do you think she was too emotional to use good judgment when they had sex?
46.
Did she feel guilt?
47.
Was she able to handle the scenario and her behavior?
48.
Would she encourage an encore?
49.
Are they self-conscious?
50.
Does Jason handle the situation better than Linda?
51.
Does she act like she is his champion?
52.
Do you think they (Jason’s father and Teacher (Linda)) are reacting
with
too much friction?
53.
Do you believe the young lady (Haley) who was flirting with Jason was
the one who had Linda stalked?
54.
Does the double standard stand tall and rigid as usual?
55.
What exactly is “putting
something out”?
56.
If you “put something out” is
it necessarily true?
57.
Who is right the victim of the
slur(s) against or the person who put
something out for malicious pleasure?
58.
What does survival of the
fittest mean?
59.
Do you think the quarry
ever looks around and “smile and laugh”?
60.
What is a bully?
61. Why do you think people bully
or try to dominate other people and
mistreat them?
62. Why are people in cliques beyond
elementary, junior, high school
and college?
63. What are the stalkee’s rights?
64. Was the teacher right in reprimanding the young lady (Haley)?
65. Why did Jason accuse Linda of being jealous?
66. Do you think the young lady sent the guy hiding behind a car to stalk
Linda
to find something out?
67. Was this behavior an act of retaliation?
68.
When the proof was documented by the guy following them … do you
think he
was right to spread this matter all over campus?
69.
Do you believe this young woman hates Linda for threatening her with
a
reprimand and other reprisals?
70. Did Haley care for Linda’s reputation, life, treatment and ability to keep
on teaching?
71.
Did Haley disrespect her and curse her?
72.
Is Haley in a clique?
73.
Who opened the door to this rampant disrespect? Did Linda overspoke herself?
74.
Who gave Haley the right to judge Linda’s behavior?
75. Do you think the venomous attack on her caused dreadful emotional,
psychological and physiological damage?
76.
Why did she admit to his dad that she had sex with his son?
77.
How many times did they have sex?
78. Was Jason a liar, ill-mannered and showed despicable indiscretion?
Who was the villain in this drama?
79.
Did she act appropriately when she confronted Haley and Jason being too
intimate?
80. Was the scene with Jason and Linda too melodramatic and pitiful?
81. When the play was threatened with cancellation did Linda have to
disregard
her own feelings and rush to the rescue?
82.
Was Linda constantly harassed and disrespected?
83. What triggered the stalking of Linda?
84.
Is everything the teacher’s fault?
85.
Is she a joke? If she is not a joke
why is there constant laughter?
86. Is she a stronger person than them?
87. Why is Jason so rude to her and everyone?
88.
Was his dad proud of him and even more proud of him when he stood
for his
rights and his play became a success?
89.
Did his dad decide to try to be a better dad?
90.
Did she continue on standing and mending her life?
91.
Do you think educators and populace forgave her?
92.
Why is every indiscretion life altering? 93. Do you think she ever thought of
committing suicide believing her life was destroyed?
94. What would you do to correct this
attack?
95. How good is your fortitude in a
situation like this?
96.
Could you stand and protest behavior like this aimed at you?
97.
Do you think her inner you was crying to God to save her?