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| "MOVIE MANIA" by Carol Duerksen | |||||||||||||
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YOUTH GROUP LESSON 12
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| MATERIALS AND ADVANCE PREPARATION: 1 This session is based on your students seeing two different movies: Dead Man Walking and End of the Spear. There are several ways you can make sure they see the movies prior to your session together: 1 Circulate them among the youth. Encourage them to get together in their own homes and watch the movies over a 1-2 week time frame. 2 As a group, watch one per week and spend the third week talking about them. 3 Plan a weekend retreat or lock-in to watch both of them and then have the discussion. 4 Make copies of the discussion questions 5 Bible dictionary and concordance 6 Bibles, Pencils and paper 8 The background soundtrack for a rap song if you think you have students that will do #2 in the Respond section. Option: Tell students the theme and ask them to find videos that illustrate the theme of “Loving people that are unlikable.” Then follow one of the above steps. Dead Man Walking is the true story of a caring nun who receives a desperate letter from a death row inmate trying to find help to avoid execution for murder. Over the course of the time to the convict’s death, the nun begins to show empathy, not only with the pathetic man, but also with the victims and their families. In the end, that nun must decide how she will deal with the paradox of caring for that condemned man while understanding the heinousness of his crimes. The movie is rated R due to a depiction of a rape and murder. End of the Spear is the true story of a group of Christian missionaries in Ecuador who set out to reach the Wadani tribe (a violent Ecuadorian tribe defined by revenge killing). When the 5 men from this group are speared to death by Mincayani and others in the tribe (who believe all foreigners are cannibals), the wives and children of those men move into the Wadani tribe to teach them about God. Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence. Continued... |
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