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Think about & answer these questions as we watch the movie Stand and Deliver.What are your impressions of the neighborhood? Which things show you that there are many Hispanic people in this neighborhood? What is happening at the school when Mr. Escalante arrives? What was Mr. Escalante expected to teach at the school? Why does he end up teaching math instead? What are your impressions of the school and the students? How do the students react to Mr. Escalante? Do they like math? Do they like to study? What was Mr. Escalante's job before he became a high-school teacher? How does Mr. Escalante's neighbor react when he hears that he quit a high paying job to become a teacher? Do you think people respect high-school teachers? At the beginning, the students don't even know how to do basic math, such as fractions. How does Mr. Escalante encourage them? How does he deal with the tough guys? What kind of attitude do the other math teachers have about the students? What do they think of Mr. Escalante? At the beginning of the movie, do the students seem like they are planning to go to college? How do their families and friends react when they start studying math so intensely? (Think about why Angel asks for another book, and about how Anna's father wants her to quit school.) What things make it hard for the students to study outside of class? That is, what responsibilities do they have and what distractions are there? How do the other teachers react when Mr. Escalante says that he wants to teach calculus in the fall? What do the students have to do in order to get ready for the class? What are the conditions of the "contract" that Mr. Escalante gives the students at the beginning of the calculus class? Why do you think he makes them sign the contract? Do Japanese teachers ever use contracts? Besides teaching high school, what other work does Mr. Escalante do? Why does he take this job? What does his family think about it? Why did Angel bring his grandmother to Mr. Escalante's house? According to the doctors, why did Mr. Escalate have a heart attack? How do the students do on the Advanced Placement Test? Why do the people at the testing company think that the students cheated? Who else thinks that the students cheated? Final Written AnalysisMr. Escalante: You're going to work harder here than you've ever worked anywhere else. And the only thing I ask from you is ganas. Desire.In Stand and Deliver, we learn that “ganas” roughly translates as desire to succeed. Paragraph 1- Write about how having “ganas” will benefit your education in high school and beyond. Paragraph 2- Also, consider the steps you must take and the changes that must occur in your life if “ganas” will be your motto that will help you through high school. Paragraph 3- Include one example from the movie to personally relate to in your response. Please write your 1+ page response on a separate sheet of notebook paper or you may type it. ................
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