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Lesson 1 (from Part I (Pages 1 - 88))
Objective
The objective of this Daily Lesson is for students to analyze the significance of Art's and Judy's Sunday movie nights with Uncle Stephen. When Nazemian opens the book, he explains how Art, Judy, and Judy's Uncle Stephen bond over old movies like Mommie Dearest and Gone With the Wind, and many, many Judy Garland films. Stephen, a gay man living with AIDS, acts as a kind of mentor to Art, who is a young gay man in New York City in 1989 struggling with bigotry and the sense that his sexuality might be a death sentence. The movie nights are acts of bonding, love, and acceptance.
Lesson
Class Discussion: What activity do Stephen, Art and Judy do every week together? Why is it movies that these three characters have chosen to bond over? What is the relationship between movies, celebrity, pop culture, and gay rights?
Small Group...
Aligned to the following Common Core Standards:
- ELA-Reading: Literature RL.9-10.1, 9-10.2, 9-10.3, 9-10.10, 11-12.1, 11-12.2, 11-12.10
- ELA-Writing W.9-10.9, 11-12.9
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