walkout

The movie "Walkout" takes place in East L.A. in the late 60's. The main character is a high school aged girl who is torn between standing up for her rights as an equal member of society as a chicana and respecting her father and his belief in tradition and graciousness. "Walkout" is relevant to our students because the characters in the movie are all their same age, enduring some of the same problems within society and the movie would be found in the "New Release" section of a rental store so they may actually give it the time of day.

This is a wrap-up activity that I had students do in groups of 4 or 5.

- Each group has an envelop of 11 scenes from the movie and they have to put them in chronological order. - The group that does it the fastest with the scenes in the correct order wins some sort of prize whether it be candy, participation points or however you like to reward them. -After each group has them in the correct order we go through and cover why each event is significant in the movie and what it meant for the main character and the chicanos as a group.


 * The numbers next to each event are only there for the purpose of having something to turn in so that I can see if they have them in the correct order or not. Also, I did this with a Spanish I class so I put vocab that they already knew and cognates in Spanish and left the rest in English.

Enjoy!

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