Gut Reactions to the film

Some images may be disturbing to students and some concepts/opinions could spark fierce debate. For these reasons, it may be helpful to establish ground rules for constructive discussion, including ways to respectfully disagree.

• How has this movie made you feel overall?
• Was there something in the film you found particularly uplifting? Disturbing?
• How did you react to the graphic war images?
• Why do you suppose graphic images were included in the film?
• Were there parts of the film that made you angry? Can you think of ways to help change the things that made you feel angry?
• How do you cope with your feelings of grief, sadness or anger?
• Considering there are both Iraqi and American deaths virtually daily, why have we not seen more of these war images in the mainstream media?
• Why did the military not want the press to publish photos of flag-draped coffins being shipped home?

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Table of Contents

1. Gut Reactions to the film

2. General questions for class discussion or written essays

3. Media/filmmaking questions

4. More in-depth questions for discussion or essays by topic

5. The United States and Iraq: Choices & Predictions

6. Math and Fahrenheit 9/11

7. Silent Discussion of Fahrenheit 9/11

8. Making Connections

9. No Child Left Unrecruited

10. Thinking in Pictures, Feeling in Words

11. What is Terrorism? Who are the Terrorists?

12. Scavenger Hunt

13. Acknowledgements and Contributors