Your task:
Organize a brief lesson around the trailer for a
WWII movie trailer:
• 3-4 minute introduction.
– Create a ½ page informative
handout.
– PowerPoint presentation.
• Play the trailer
• Summary and parting shot.
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IV.
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VI.
VII.
VIII.
IX.
Historical Context:
Plot:
Thesis: (big argument + specific argument)
Main Ideas and Issues:
Main Characters:
Perspectives:
Historical Connections:
Impact on war:
Impact on world after war:
___/ 5 Smooth Presentation:
 Entertaining, Engaging and Wellstructured
___/10 Prompt and Thesis
 Complex prompt
 Complex, universal argument
 Focused and Specific
___/10 Context and Plot
 Concise but informative plot description
 Historical context fully understood and
clearly expressed
o What is the main issue in the
movie?
o What aspects of WWII are
illustrated? (Technology, politics,
culture, discrimination, economics…)
o How does this aspect/issue fit into the
whole story of WWII?
o Causes/effects
__/10 Characters and Perspective
 Main characters are briefly introduced
 Perspectives and choices of specific groups are
analyzed
 Perspectives and choices are connected to
main ideas/argument
__/5 Impact
 Explain impact of issue on WWII
 Explain impact of issue on world after WWII
Total: ___/40
Europe and North Africa
The longest day Patton
Saving Private Ryan Enemy at the Gates
Dirty Dozen
Swing Kids
The Counterfeiters
U-571
Defiance
Valkyrie
Downfall
Band of brothers
Fury
Monuments Men
Rome, Open City
Holocaust
Conspiracy
Sophie Scholl
Uprising
The Grey Zone
Schindler’s List
The Pianist
Boy in the Striped Pajamas
African Americans
Redtails
Miracle at St. Anna
Tuskegee Airmen
Japanese Americans (442nd):
Only the Brave
Go For Broke!
Technology, spies, and code breakers
Imitation Game (Turing and code breaking)
Enigma (MK ULTRA)
Operation mincemeat (book trailer)
Manhattan (TV show)
Asia and the Pacific
Windtalkers (Navajo code and soldiers in the pacific)
Empire of the Sun (Japanese invasion of Shanghai)
Purple Butterfly (Chinese resistance movements)
Bridge on the River Kwai
Flags of our Father
Letters from Iwo Jima
The Thin Red Line
Unbroken
Grave of the Fireflies (Japanese civilians during WW2)
The Wind Rises (Japanese airplane designer)
Midway
The Great Raid
Emperor (Post-war issues)
The Pacific
Tora Tora Tora
Pearl harbor
Unbroken