Hot Coffee Brings the Real World Right Into Your Classroom!
Textbooks often present an idealized view of both government and economics, detailing how things are supposed to work instead of what actually happens out there in the real world. Hot Coffee can show students the rest of the story, revealing how the civil justice system has been compromised in recent decades.
Students will see how:
• Many people have lost all right to “have their day in court” when they suffer serious harm
• Juries in many states no longer have the power they used to
• Big business interests are taking control of the courts by attacking judges they feel might rule against them
• Advertising campaigns orchestrated by big business interests have persuaded Americans to support a steady erosion of their rights
Students Love Watching Hot Coffee!
The movie Hot Coffee really gets students thinking hard about the country in which they live. How do I know? I hear them talking, and I don’t just mean during class discussions that are structured and organized by me as we proceed through the movie’s four segments. When the bell rings to end class, they’re still talking, and they keep it up as they’re walking out the door and heading to their next class!
In fact, a number of other teachers have come to me about the movie because their students have brought it up in other classes, either because they can’t stop talking about it or because they find a way to work it into issues under study there as well!
Why do students like the movie so much?
• It’s engaging, building information around four real-world cases in which people got hurt and found themselves confronting the new reality of a compromised civil justice system.
• It presents a counterpoint to textbook presentations, which can come across as fake to students because books are often unwilling to critique the country.
• Each of the movie’s four segments is short enough to capture and keep their attention.
Teacher Convenience Features of these Hot Coffee Movie Worksheets
--All 105 questions are in the multiple choice format so that they can be easily and quickly graded, both by students correcting their own work or by busy teachers.
--These Hot Coffee worksheets are provided in two formats so that teachers can have materials that automatically match the whole movie, or that match just one segment at a time if they are showing the movie in the logical chunks into which the director has divided it. (Read on for more information.)
Textbooks often present an idealized view of both government and economics, detailing how things are supposed to work instead of what actually happens out there in the real world. Hot Coffee can show students the rest of the story, revealing how the civil justice system has been compromised in recent decades.
Students will see how:
• Many people have lost all right to “have their day in court” when they suffer serious harm
• Juries in many states no longer have the power they used to
• Big business interests are taking control of the courts by attacking judges they feel might rule against them
• Advertising campaigns orchestrated by big business interests have persuaded Americans to support a steady erosion of their rights
Students Love Watching Hot Coffee!
The movie Hot Coffee really gets students thinking hard about the country in which they live. How do I know? I hear them talking, and I don’t just mean during class discussions that are structured and organized by me as we proceed through the movie’s four segments. When the bell rings to end class, they’re still talking, and they keep it up as they’re walking out the door and heading to their next class!
In fact, a number of other teachers have come to me about the movie because their students have brought it up in other classes, either because they can’t stop talking about it or because they find a way to work it into issues under study there as well!
Why do students like the movie so much?
• It’s engaging, building information around four real-world cases in which people got hurt and found themselves confronting the new reality of a compromised civil justice system.
• It presents a counterpoint to textbook presentations, which can come across as fake to students because books are often unwilling to critique the country.
• Each of the movie’s four segments is short enough to capture and keep their attention.
Teacher Convenience Features of these Hot Coffee Movie Worksheets
--All 105 questions are in the multiple choice format so that they can be easily and quickly graded, both by students correcting their own work or by busy teachers.
--These Hot Coffee worksheets are provided in two formats so that teachers can have materials that automatically match the whole movie, or that match just one segment at a time if they are showing the movie in the logical chunks into which the director has divided it. (Read on for more information.)
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