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Gracie's Choice
One of the Best! This movie is on TWM's list of the ten best movies to supplement classes in Health, High School Level.
SUBJECTS — Health; U.S./1991 - present;
SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING — Alcohol & Drug Abuse;
Families In Crisis; Mother/Daughter; Parenting;
MORAL-ETHICAL EMPHASIS — Responsibility; Caring.
Age: 12+; MPAA Rating: PG-13; Drama; 91 minutes; Color.
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"Gracie's Choice" is the story of a teenage girl with four younger siblings, a drug-addicted mother, and co-dependent grandmother. Gracie manages to keep her family together through hard work and perseverance, eventually convincing a court to allow her to adopt her younger brothers over her mother's objections. At the end of the movie, Gracie is living the life of a single mother and bettering herself by taking courses at a community college. Most of the movie is an accurate representation of reality. The TeachWithMovies.com Learning Guide tells what is true and what was left out.
This movie shows the devastating effects of drug addiction on a family and codependence in operation. However, the most important lesson comes from the actions of Gracie, a girl who overcomes great difficulty, keeps her family together, and progresses with her life. "Gracie's Choice" will give students in health classes a visceral understanding of these lessons. In English Language Arts classes, the movie will motivate students and drive assignments.
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To give you a sense of how our Learning Guides can be used by teachers as lesson plans and by parents to supplement school curriculum or for homeschooling, we have set out below the INTO section from the Learning Guide to Gracie's Choice.
INTO: The only introduction that needs to be made to the movie is to tell the class that it's based on real facts and that they'll get to read about what really happened after they've seen the movie. Teachers might also have students read TWM's handout on "Codependence -- What Happens When a Family Member is an Alcoholic or a Drug Addict."
The Learning Guide to Gracie's Choice also contains sections on Benefits of the Movie, Possible Problems, Helpful Background, Discussion Questions, Links to the Internet, and Bridges to Reading. The Discussion Questions are divided into three categories: Subject Matter, Social-Emotional Learning, and Moral-Ethical Emphasis.
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