Discussion Guide
Grades 6-8
Grades 9-10
Grades 11-12

Minding the Gap: Discussion Guide Resources

Resources

Minding the Gap – The official website of the film includes press materials and additional discussion questions.

Mentoring

  • The Mentoring Partnership – Information on becoming a mentor, the case for mentoring, and the Mentoring Connector database of mentoring programs in the U.S.
  • National Mentoring Resource Center – Research reports on effective practice with at-risk youth and training resources for mentors from the U.S. Justice Department’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

Masculinity

  • Teaching Tolerance – “What We Mean When We Say ‘Toxic Masculinity’”
  • Jackson Katz – Pioneering activist and teacher on gender-based violence prevention and concepts of masculinity. Site includes links to his TedXtalk, published works, interviews, and videos.
  • The Good Men Project – Via blog posts, articles, comments, and other media, the project engages men in a frank discussion of what it means to be a “good man” in today’s world and the challenges of being a man at a time when views of masculinity are changing.

Fatherhood

Domestic Violence

Substance Abuse

Sources

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