Remember the Titans

Suburban Virginia schools were segregated for generations, that is until the year when all students were sent
to T.C. Williams High School under a federal mandate to integrate. Remember The Titans progresses through the
eyes of the football team, where the man hired to coach the newly integrated football program (Denzel Washington)
is made head coach over the highly successful white coach. Based on the actual events of 1971, the team struggles
with racial tensions, but eventually becomes the unifying symbol for the community as the boys and the adults
learn to depend on and trust each other.


Summary adapted from
imdb.com

Gettysburg

Untitled Slide

• How does Coach Boone establish credibility (ethos) with his team by using specific pronouns?
• Choose one example of PATHOS from Coach Boone’s speech and explain how it helps to establish his tone.

Anybody know what this place is? This is Gettysburg. This is where they fought the Battle of Gettysburg.
Fifty thousand men died right here on this field, fighting the same fight that we're still fighting amongst ourselves
today. This green field right here was painted red, bubbling with the blood of young boys, smoke and hot lead
pouring right through their bodies. Listen to their souls, men: 'I killed my brother with malice in my heart.
Hatred destroyed my family.’ You listen. And you take a lesson from the dead. If we don't come together, right
now, on this hallowed ground, we too will be destroyed -- just like they were. I don't care if you like each other or
not. But you will respect each other. And maybe -- I don't know -- maybe we'll learn to play this game like men.

We Are Marshall

On November 14, 1970 Marshall University's football team, its coaching staff, and many fans are killed when the

airplane they’re traveling on crashes on the outskirts of their home town in Huntington, West Virginia. Virtually everyone in

the community is in mourning and university president Don Dedman is torn when one of the players, who did not travel

with the team due to injury, pushes to have the team reinstated. Dedman eventually agrees and they hire Jack Lengyel as the

new head coach. Building a team from scratch is a daunting exercise, requiring many in the community to examine their

values.
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Pre Game Speech

Untitled Slide

• How does the coach help to establish perspective for his team by using logos?
• Choose one example of PATHOS from the coach’s speech and explain how it establishes his tone.
• Choose one example of ethos and explain how it makes the coach look respectable and trustworthy to his players.

For those of you who may not know, this is the final resting place for six members of the 1970 Thundering Herd.
The plane crash that took their lives was so severe, so, so absolute, that their bodies were unable to be identified. So they were
buried here, together. Six players, six teammates, six Sons of Marshall. This is our past, gentlemen. This is where we have
been. This is how we got here. This is who we are. Today, I want to talk about our opponent this afternoon. They're bigger,
faster, stronger, more experienced and on paper, they're just better. And they know it, too. But I want to tell you something
that they don't know. They don't know your heart. I do. I've seen it. You have shown it to me. You have shown this coaching
staff, your teammates. You have shown yourselves just exactly who you are in here. (Pounds chest)

you will be remembered. This is your opportunity to rise

from these ashes and grab glory.

When you take that field today, you've got to lay that heart on the line, men. From the soles of your feet, with every
ounce of blood you've got in your body, lay it on the line until the final whistle blows. And if you do that, if you do that, we cannot lose. We may be behind on the scoreboard at the end of the game, but if you play like that we cannot be defeated.

Now we came here today to remember six
young men and sixty-nine others who will not be on the field with you today, but they will be watching.

You can bet your [life] that they'll be gritting their teeth with every snap of that football. You understand me? How you play today, from this moment on, is how they will be watching. You can bet your [life] that they'll be gritting their teeth with every snap of that football.

You
understand me? How you play today, from this moment on, is how you will be remembered. This is your opportunity to rise
from these ashes and grab glory.

Wonder Woman

When army pilot Steve Trevor crashes on the warriors' secluded island paradise, disrupting the fictitious all female
sanctuary of Themyscira, created by the Gods of Olympus, Princess Diana of the immortal Amazons aids for
his rescue and wins the decisive right to escort him home. Diana and Steve then travel to an early 20th Century
London, hoping to stop the war she believes is influenced by the God Ares. Leaving behind the only life she's ever
known and entering the cynical world of men for the first time, torn between a mission to promote peace and her
own warrior upbringing, Diana must fight evil in a "war to end all wars," ultimately hoping to unlock the potential
of a humanity she doesn't always understand.
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Humanity

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• Where is THE STRONGEST example of ethos located in the monologue? How does it add to Diana's character?
• How does Diana use logos to explain her newfound position on humans? Do you agree with her rational?
• What is a reoccurring example of pathos throughout Diana's monologue? How does it add emotion to her claims?

I used to want to save the world, to end war and bring peace to mankind. But then, I glimpsed the darkness

that lives within their light. I learned that inside every one of them, there will always be both. The choice each must

make for themselves - something no hero will ever defeat. I've touched the darkness that lives in between the light,

seen the worst of this world, and the best, seen the terrible things men do to each other in the name of hatred, and

the lengths they'll go to for love. Now I know. Only love can save this world. So I stay. I fight. And I give... for the

world I know can be. This is my mission, now, forever.