Homework: Watch Senator Kennedy's speeches on You tube. Be prepared to discuss the content of the speech and what your thoughts and feelings were about the speech. Take notes in your notebook.
Freshmen: Many of you missed the first homework assignment, which was to write one to three short paragraphs comparing what you have seen in the movie “Bobby” to the situation in America today.
Period 4: Expect a quiz in the next few days based on the movie and our discussions.
Themes we have seen and discussed so far:
The war in Vietnam: many people were being drafted to go to Vietnam. We see a young girl promising to marry her friend because if he is married he will be sent to Germany and not to the front lines in Vietnam. She does not agree with the war and feels that she can save a life.
The campaign workers—one pair is working really hard to get people to vote for Senator Kennedy, and the other pair is goofing off. The 1960’s had many elements of drug culture and people who were against “the establishment” and structure of the 1950’s.
The Hippie—Ashton Kutcher plays a great hippie. Hippies were famous for being part of the counter culture, the drug culture, for trying to save the environment, and for protesting the Vietnam war.
Marriage and family—Lindsay Lohan’s character, Diane, was in trouble with her family for marrying her boyfriend for political purposes. Her boyfriend wasn’t sure they should go through with the marriage because he felt that it was unfair to her—marriage is sacred and they should only get married once. The hairdresser and Mr. Fallon both stayed in unhappy marriages because society did not allow divorce.
The Senator—represented hope, a bridging of differences across racial and economic groups in American society, and the change that the country needed. People from many different groups were looking toward Bobby Kennedy as the great American hope to resolve the problems of society.
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