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Grit: Discussion Guide Discussion Prompt: Closing Questions

Discussion Prompt: Closing Questions

At the end of your discussion, to help people synthesize what they’ve experienced and move the focus from dialogue to action steps, you may want to choose one of these questions:

What did you learn from this film that you wish everyone knew? What would change if everyone knew it?

If you could require one person (or one group) to view this film, who would it be? What would you hope their main takeaway would be?

This story is important because ___________.

What question(s) do you think the filmmakers were trying to answer? Do you think they found the answers they were looking for?

Complete this sentence: I am inspired by this film (or discussion) to __________.

Additional media literacy questions are available at:
https://www.amdoc.org/engage/resources/media-literacy-questions-analyzing-pov-films/using-framework/

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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