Helping Students Realize Their Potential | Teaching Tolerance

Helping Students Realize Their Potential | Teaching Tolerance

12 Angry Men (1957)

12 ANGRY MEN© Joel Warren Lidz, Ph.D. Published in Teaching Philosophy In an era of electronic media, professors inevitably compete with the ubiquitous special effects and thrills of sex and violence to which students have been exposed outside the classroom. Despite the fact that it appeals not to hormones, but to minds.  the film "12 Angry Men" typically captivates the attention of students Synopsis: A young Puerto Rican, on charges of murdering his father. Only a stone-hearted soul could fail to be moved watching Henry Fonda slowly, methodically sway 11 other jurors, one by one, employing only reason, compassion, and common sense  as weapons. Should any of us ever be falsely accused and on trial for our lives, we’d certainly want someone like him advocating on our behalf. It’s a beautifully idealized depiction of how a jury of one’s peers should (theoretically) operate.

I.  Key vocabulary:
 premeditated murder
 reasonable
doubt
abstain
verdict
unanimous
foreman
death sentence
slum
ballot


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