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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About the author:

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.

Faith Rogow