Lesson Plan
Grades 6-8
Grades 9-10
Grades 11-12

Before and After: Asking Questions about Going to War Film Clips

Film Clips

Clip 1: Introducing Nori Sharif (1:57 min.) - The clip begins at 03:30 with Nori Sharif, a nurse, bandaging a patient. It ends at 05:27 after Sharif acknowledges that psychological wounds persist, even after the fighting ends. We see Sharif at work in a hospital in Jalawla in Iraq’s Diyala province.

Clip 2: Caught in the Crossfire (5:16 min.) - The clip begins at 35:00 with Sharif saying, “I’m at the hospital,” and ends at 40:16 with him urging his family to move faster and saying, “I am not comfortable here.” A sparse staff at the hospital is trying to treat those wounded in the fighting between ISIS and the Kurds. Violence has led most of the hospital staff to evacuate.

Clip 3: Return to Destruction (3:24 min.) - The clip starts at 48:40 as Sharif begins to describe his “new reality.” It ends at 52:04 as he surveys the damaged hospital and says “damned war.” Sharif and his family are trying to build a semblance of a normal life in a refugee camp. He is asked to return to and report on the hospital where he worked.

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Faith Rogow

Faith Rogow

Faith Rogow, Ph.D., is the co-author of The Teacher's Guide to Media Literacy: Critical Thinking in a Multimedia World (Corwin, 2012) and past president of the National Association for Media Literacy Education. She has written discussion guides and lesson plans for more than 250 independent films.