1. Remember the Titans

2. Today’s lesson Aim: Develop an understanding of characters and plot
Starter: Trailer
Plot Summary
Chain Story
Explore Conflict and Resolution

3. Character Identification
Name the two most important coaches of the Titans
Name the important players on the Titans football team

4. Coach Boone Coach Yoast
MUST SHOULD COULD
3 Adjectives
1 Problem
1 Way he helped the community
3 Adjectives
1 Problem
1 Way he helped the community

5. Coach Boone
He was cantankerous, sharp-edged, intelligent, opinionated – and a driven man who stepped on quite a few toes
treated everybody the same
helped Louie get his grades up
good family man
a 'race man' i.e. was proud of his race and worked for it
drive to win – a 'winner'
strong disciplinarian, would drive the boys; inspirational

6. Coach Yoast
Screenwriter: Bill is a very sweet, warm man - one of the nicest men I have met. He started out in life wanting to be a preacher; but became a coach as a way of reaching young people.
He seems laid-back but he wanted to win just as much as Boone did.
a good man, decent, honourable; will not win his job back through cheating
has his pride but is able to subdue it in the interests of the team
strong paternal affection for the boys
treats Sheryl with respect as well as love

7. Julius Gerry 3 Adjectives 1 Problem 1 Change 3 Adjectives 1 Problem

8. Julius Gerry Angry Brilliant Funny
Respects Gerry's ability, and his ability to change.
Starts as a racist but Julius becomes his best friend; he is too decent, too honest, too honourable to accept Ray's betrayal of the team. Puts the team first.

9. Other Characters
Rev - a 'brainiac', deeply religious, a decent, likeable boy; offers to tutor Louie.
Louie - 'white trash', from a poor background, and not a scholar; singer and dancer; open-minded – "I'm with everybody."
Petey – oversensitive, self-centred, has to learn to put the team ahead of himself.
Sunshine – has a personality to match his name.
Blue – sees life through music; but also shows grit, determination.
Ray – invented character to represent the intransigent racist.

10. Plot Summary words
head coach funeral grudgingly/reluctantly disciplined camp particularly unified job prejudice success integrated successful assistant imperious/bossy respect captain spirit tragedy Hall of Fame champions paralysed

11. The Setting of the scene
Answer the following questions as best you can, based on the information you have. Who? What? Where? When? How? Why?

12. Viewing – Setting Up The Conflicts
Goal: To understand the idea of conflict, and track its resolution through the film Starter – key word definition – in your group, come up with a clear definition of what conflict means in a film Recap – What has happened so far? Viewing – Making a note of conflicts. Feedback – what conflicts have we found?

13. Conflict External Conflict Pick three of conflicts.
Write down how the viewer expects them to be resolved
Internal Conflict

14. Coaches Tough Choices
Goal: To show an understanding of the dilemmas facing a character, and the tension these create
Key word – Dilemma – definition?
A REALLY difficult choice, where every result has a bad consequence
Viewing – keep an eye out for Coach Yoast’s dilemmas
Written response – were I faced with the following dliemma, I would likely …

15. Exploring Narrative Tension
Narrative means story – so narrative tension means tension that comes from the plot or storyline.
Use the Cloze Summary Sheet to divide the plot line of Titans into 12 main parts.
Once you’ve done that, create a narrative tension graph to plot the ebbs and flows of tension throughout the story.
Tension
Extension Challenge
Chart the main sub-plot as well
Plot Point