Objective:  I can identify the claim in “Not Helpful” by transforming its title into a question and looking for the answer in one of its sentences.  Also, I can write a reflection about the theme of segregation as it occurs in a scene from the movie by writing notes and completing the sentence stem.

BW:  Independent Study:  Students will turn the title of “Not Helpful” into a question and read to identify a sentence that best answers the question. Student will write the sentence in their notebooks.

Activities:

1.  Share Out:  What is the claim of “Not Helpful”?  What does the movie “trivialize”?
2. View Movie:  Answer questions from Part 3 item #2.
3. Reflection:  Students will list three details from a selected scene and write a paragraph that describes its relationship to one of the themes.