HW #49

Our class Teacher/ savior film was about a Man named jake westwood. On the outside he looks like a normal History teacher. hes passionate about what he teaches and his students seam to take an intrest in history and become motivated to want to learn. Jake westwood secretly has a cocaine adiction and tries his best to hide it. one day his students catch him snorting the white powder and they loose respect and trust in him. His class is no longer intrested in history and becomes depressed. his coke habit becomes worse. His addiction has become out of control and one night while buying cocain he is robbed for the cocain, beaten and left in the street. His students who have just left a party near by find him lying in the street and take him home. The day day (saturday) they come to his house and tell him that he must quit or his coke addiction will come to the surface. the night before after they got him home the searched his house for all his hidden cocain and disposed of it. every morning he arives at school his students check him for coke and search his house as well for coke. after a few weeks he seams to be doing better without the cocain. Life seams to be getting brighter for Jake until he gets a phone call that his brother has died. hes crushed. he sits in his chair for a minute,he pulls out a line of cocain and takes a hit.



Analyasis:



I personally didnt contribute any Huge ideas but i was part of the film playing one of the students being inspired by the teacher.



My analyasis of the films message is that in the super teacher film we made the connection between teacher and student can go past the classroom. The tone of the story is very secretive at first because hes hiding this cocain addiction. the tone for when the students find him is of dissapointment because the teacher that inspired them wasnt this perfect person they thought he was. The tone at the end of the story is silent because hes back to his old ways so what can anyone tll him now to stop.



Our movie in comparison to the super teacher is that our teacher was portrayed to be perfect that this person had a perfect life. the teachers in the movie werent perfect because they couldnt get control of there class so he was portrayed as perfect because everyone wanted to learn from him.



I think the connection between these examples of savior teachers and our own school education is almost an influence. The super teacher movies are giving an pre determinded identity of what a teacher should be like and when we enter our own school we see that its not always like that. One gets the idea from the other so either the people who make the movies base them off of real teachers who want to be saviors or teachers try to be saviors because thats the image thats been created and they want kids to be inspired by them

HW 48, Treatment for savior/ Teacher movie

11 year old Kimberly Wakes up, goes to school and comes home. Thats atleast what everyone thinks. Kimberlys parents and verbally abusive to her. Therefor she lacks beliefe in herself. She has difficulty reading and writng and is in danger of being held back. Her Social Studies Teacher Mr.Porter cannot help but notice her struggle but also notice's her potential to become great. He takes it upon himself to pay a little extra attention to Kimberly to see where her weak and strong points are. Kimberly is happy to be reciving the positive attention she's always wanted. Kimberlys parents soon notice that shes reciving extra help when she stays after school so her parents dont allow her to stay after school. Kimberly then falls into a depression because she can no longer get the attention she deserved.

Her teacher Mr.Porter makes it his mission to find a way to help Kimberly reach her full potential no matter what he has to do. He Begins meeting her at lunch and sending her home with work packets and instructions so that she can refer to his comments so she can complete her work better. After many months of working her reading and writing levels start to rise but its already the end of the year and ger chances of being promoted to the next grade are very slim. Mr.Porter finds it only fair to fight for her as she has fought for herself. He confronts the principle of the school with her new reading and writing levels showing her potential to increase her grades enough to be able to go to the next grade. The principle will only give her one chance to pass. she must pass a basic learning test and if she passses she will be promoted to the next grade and will be able to be able to continue in her path to sucess.