|
Create Lesson Plans Based on Movies and Film
Hiroshima Maiden
SUBJECTS --- U.S./1941 - 1991; World/WW-II, the Cold War Era,
Japan;
SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING --- Courage; Friendship;
Human Rights; Peer Pressure;
MORAL-ETHICAL EMPHASIS --- Responsibility; Caring.
Age 9-13; Former television movie appropriate for family viewing, not rated; 60 minutes; 1988; Color; Available from Amazon.com.
|
|
|
In 1955, twenty-five young girls who had been horribly burned by the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima were brought to the U.S. for plastic surgery. While in the U.S. they stayed with American families. This film traces the experience of one Hiroshima Maiden and the family that was her host. At first the family's 10 year old son, prompted by his friends, thinks she's a spy. As he learns more about her he realizes that ....
The TeachWithMovies.com Learning Guide to "Hiroshima Maiden" helps parents and teachers illustrate the great human cost of "collateral damage", provide an example of how and why to resist peer pressure, introduce the atomic attacks on Japan that ended WW II, and provide an inspiring example of the transforming and healing power of love.
TeachWithMovies.com Learning Guides are used by thousands of teachers as lesson plans. Exclusive "Quick Discussion Questions" help parents stimulate family discussions.
Learning Guides feature the following sections:
|
|
- Benefits
- Possible Problems
- Helpful Background
- Building Vocabulary
|
- Discussion Questions
- Links to Internet
- Bridges to Reading
- Class Projects
| |
New Learning Guides are added on a regular basis!
"Hiroshima Maiden" shows Americans caring for Japanese after the Second World War.
What do teachers and parents say about TeachWithMovies.com? Click Here
|
|
Just $11.99 per year gives you Learning Guides and Lesson Plans for 285 movies covering most of the K -12 curriculum!
Click Here to Subscribe.
"Learning Guides" help educators create lesson plans by providing background, discussion questions, projects, and vocabulary lists. "Movie Lesson Plans" are more formal with lectures, student handouts, comprehension tests and answer keys.
TeachWithMovies.com provides more than 285 Learning Guides and seven Movie Lesson Plans.
Free Sample Learning Guides:
October Sky "Gettysburg"
"Hamlet" "The Wizard of Oz,"
Check out the helpful indexes.
TEACHERS: A film or movie can be an alternative educational experience that highlights points covered by the curriculum. Each Movie Lesson Plan and Learning Guide will help you maximize the benefits that your class derives from watching and discussing the movie.
PARENTS: Watch the movie with your children and briefly talk about its message. Often, just one or two comments will make the film a meaningful experience. Your family will grow closer as all of you learn about history, culture and people. You will gain some positive control over screen time.
Unlock this international treasure for use by educators and parents. Subscribe for only $11.99 per year ($1 each month). Click Here
TeachWithMovies.com does not provide the movies or films.
|
|
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 Benefits Section of the Learning Guide to "Hiroshima Maiden".
This film operates effectively on at least five levels. First, it shows a child of about ten choosing between the prejudices of his peers, and the ethics and loving attitude of his family. Second, it shows adults dealing with the unhealed wounds of a brutal war. Third, it brings home the human cost of war and the terrible meaning of the words "collateral damage" and "civilian casualties". Fourth, it is an introduction to the injuries visited upon innocents in the only nuclear war experienced by mankind.
This is a story of the compassion of an American family and the courage of a young woman who travels halfway across the world for painful surgeries in a land that had been the hated enemy of her country. While other movies about the atomic attacks on Japan can be quite grisly and graphic, this film is gentle. However, the human cost of war, particularly the impact on its youngest victims, is underscored by the angry swollen scars that mar the left side of Miyeko's body.
The fifth and perhaps the most important level on which this movie works can be shown by following the story of the Hiroshima Maidens as they took the experience of their stay in the U.S. home to Japan. It is an enduring testament to the transforming and healing power of love.
The Learning Guide to "12 Angry Men" 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.
A subscription to TeachWithMovies.com will give teachers access to 285 Learning Guides from which they can easily create lesson plans. Click here to subscribe and be introduced to a "Hiroshima Maiden".
Already a member? Click here.
|
|
See our list of authors and contributors.
Click Here
Check out our:
TeachWithMovies.com is a "Six Pillars Partner" of Character Counts, a nationally recognized program that teaches ethics.
|
|
|
|
Spread the GOOD NEWS about TEACHWITHMOVIES.COM!
|
|
|
Copyright © 2005 & 2006 by TeachWithMovies.com, Inc. All rights reserved. DVD or VHS covers are shown by permission of Amazon.com and may be subject to copyrights shown thereon. The television set logo and the pencil and filmstrip logo are trademarks of TeachWithMovies.com, Inc.
|
|
|
|
|
|
