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

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.