i dont think your supposed to watch these movies in high school

[the master]

in my acting class we watched star wars five Christmas vacation and about twenty minutes of the breakfast club and the modernization of hamlet those 2 at the end are both R which is kind of cool watching those at school i think i like this class 

[JJ80]

I can remember watching the Coen Brothers film "Blood Simple" in my English class when I was about fifteen. I think we were studying Shakespeare's "Othello" at the time.

[the master]

I can remember watching the Coen Brothers film "Blood Simple" in my English class when I was about fifteen. I think we were studying Shakespeare's "Othello" at the time.

what do they have 2 do with eachother?

[JJ80]

I suppose themes of suspected adultery and betrayal. Maybe the teacher just wanted to keep us quiet for a few periods.

[Mr. DS]

I used to love the days when my teachers decided to pop in a video instead of teach.  It seemed to happen a lot around the holidays and the last days of school obviously.  I think my first exposure to A Christmas Story came in middle school along with Ferris Bueller's Day Off.  I also recall watching Wayne's World 2 in high school during those days. Of course we had "educational" films based on books that we read.  One of them was The Hobbit. 

[indianasmith]

I use movies in the classroom, but only if they are directly linked to something I am teaching.  My 8th graders watch AMISTAD (slightly edited) and THE CROSSING, and my 10th grade World History class watches HENRY V with Kenneth Branagh, LUTHER, and GLADIATOR (I have to send home a letter on that one since it is rated R). 

And we watch a ton of documentaries, especially David MacAulay's architectural histories, like CATHEDRAL and PYRAMID, and I also show clips from some films that I won't show in their entirety, like ELIZABETH and FLYBOYS.

My cardinal rule is, it has to relate to what I am teaching.

[Ash]

In one of my high school language arts classes, the teacher showed us Ferris Bueller's Day Off over a two day period.  We watched half one day the the other half the next.
The lesson was about using vocabulary and language to manipulate people and get what you want.

And since Ferris was the world heavyweight champion of doing just that...

[sideorderofninjas]

Got to watch Breakfast Club and Bad Boys in home ec...

[Psycho Circus]

I remember watching Romeo + Juliet in English class, because we were studying the text at the time. I also recall randomly, that we got to watch Happy Gilmore in Religious Studies!? I loathed doing religion, so that was a real treat and it was the first time I saw Happy Gilmore, I almost died laughing 

[dean]

Our Year 10 Media teacher played our class 'Ninja Scroll' which includes rape!  It's rated R18+ here, and we sure weren't 18.

Yay!  He didn't teach the year after.


Also, during one class, we were to watch a film for a period.   Loading up the tape, the teacher then had to leave for a few minutes to yell at a rowdy student.  While he was out one of the kids threw in their own tape.  Teacher came back in, pressed play and lots of moaning started.  Very red faced indeed: Porn is a good way to get someone in trouble.

They burnt the tape.  Poor kid lost his vhs.

[JJ80]

I seem to recall seeing "Alive" in R.E, and possibly "Parenthood" at the end of one term. I saw "LE chateau De Ma Mere" in French as we were studying Pagnol's novel at that time.

[asimpson2006]

In my one and only year of French club the teacher showed us this French film which had some wacky things in it, with the subtitles having things like "Do you want to do it (AKA sex) here on the porch).  And this part where this girl stuck some worms or something like that in this boys shorts, and some time later in the film while he is up on the roof of this house and he had to urinate, and he tells the girl not to look at him while he doing this, and she tells that it's no big deal I've seen it already.

[raj]

We got to watch Romeo & Juliet (1968) in school, might have been 8th grade, certainly no more than 9th.  Wow, school showed us boobies!!    This was the late 1970s in rural New York.

Also in 9th grade they showed Catballou.  But that was a last day of school thing, where no one was going to do any work anyhow.

[AndyC]

In English class - must have been around 1986 - we watched Clash of the Titans as part of a unit on Greek mythology.

The one that seems kind of strange in hindsight was watching Stand and Deliver in math class. Not really useful in terms of the curriculum. I suppose it was just to get us excited about math. We didn't really care at the time, as long as we could watch a movie for two periods instead of actually doing math.

[BTM]

Got to watch Breakfast Club and Bad Boys in home ec...

What Bad Boys?  As in the Martlin Lawrence and Will Smith cop action film Bad Boys?  Huh, dunno what that has to do with Home Ec.