Other weird memories of school movies.

[Indigo]

In third grade we watched Close Encounters of the Third Kind, just before Christmas break. I still can't figure out why that was considered educational or acceptable.

[jessiehannan]

I watched Dante's Peak and Volcano in 8th grade before Christmas in science class.
I watched a Monty Python movie in m Junior AP English class,

[CatEyes]

I remember watching Tron when it was a film projector in my elementaries school cafeteria near the end of the school year. We saw a shitload of Walt Disney movies to in grade school.

[Bohemian]

The only movies I remember are:
Where the Red Fern Grows ~ English class
Helen Keller ~ English class
Romeo and Juliet ~ English class
The Princess Bride ~computer class, she was a fun teacher that rewarded with movie days. She also used to let us watch episodes of the Wonder Years because it was her favorite show.

[SueDid]

Other than The Lottery, I don't remember ever seeing movies in school. We watched a video series in a couple of different classes, but they were educational, not theater movies.

I'm old, though, LOL.

I hear they do it in the schools here before holidays sometimes.

[joshsmom]

Oh my word! I was just thinking of this the other day. My 9th grade teacher showed us a movie called "The Wave" or something like that, where a high school got caught up in this weird 'group thought'/cult type movement. I feel like it was really creepy, but can't totally remember. IIRC, it was an 'after school' special. Remember those? I loved them!!

My memory isn't totally gone, apparently. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqdpNa-kR0w)

[Sameach]

Oh my word! I was just thinking of this the other day. My 9th grade teacher showed us a movie called "The Wave" or something like that, where a high school got caught up in this weird 'group thought'/cult type movement. I feel like it was really creepy, but can't totally remember. IIRC, it was an 'after school' special. Remember those? I loved them!!

The Wave and The Giver were my absolute favorite novels to use with my 8th graders. (I had to do The Wave as a read-aloud though, because it wasn't on the district's approved reading list. Also there were curse words interspersed throughout and the main characters smoked like chimneys.) Anyway, what fabulous books--you guys should read them both.

[joshsmom]

I've read "The Giver" in a Child's Lit class in college and have reread it several times. Very interesting! I also read "The Messenger", which followed up The Giver. I haven't read "Gathering Blue", tho.

[Sameach]

I've read "The Giver" in a Child's Lit class in college and have reread it several times. Very interesting! I also read "The Messenger", which followed up The Giver. I haven't read "Gathering Blue", tho.

I didn't like Gathering Blue nearly as much as the other two.

[Lumi]

My school was not top notch so we saw alot of movies. In elem. School I remember on fridays we would have movie day. The only movie from then I remember was Little Mermaid. None in middle school I believe then high school was like tv land. I had a math teacher who was a coach. In his class we watched tons of movie I remember Hoosiers, Rudy just a bunch of movies not very good teacher either. During lock downs thats the class you wanna be in though. I had world geography class also a coach we spent 2 weeks watching the North and South miniseries he always said those are places hehe. One science class we watch Saving Private Ryan he was so excited he was a vet. I'm surprised I can write my name. Oh yeah Government class we would watch The price is right and then get papers while our teacher was MIA during the whole class he would hand them out at the beginning of class and leave be gone all class we would finish them and put them on his desk. I do not believe we had any tests with supervision so there was tons of cheating.

[nicurn]

Lumi, your school sucked!

I remember one safety film about not playing on the train tracks...I still have panic attacks if I have to stop while crossing!! Other than that, I don't remember any films at all.

DH uses film to teach his kids, but it all has educational value (even the MST3Ks). Of course, since he uses film to connect literature to modern life, he's kind of cheating, IMO.

[trylyn5]

I remember one movie we watched before Christmas break in 1st grade, it had a scary ghost girl it in. I ended up on the teacher's lap and then got to miss the first half. When the little girl showed up there was this erie blue light that matched the outside light my dad put up a few years later. It was a LONG time (like 8th grade) before I would go outside by myself when that light was on. It was worse that the dark imo.

My spanish teacher in high school was a coach too and we watched 90210 in Spanish and the World Cup (on VHS several times) for class. We would also come late, leave early, and to my shame cheat on all the tests. I still got an A. I finally learned a decent amount of spanish in college.

ETA: Spanish was one of the three classes I took at the high school in four years. I homeschooled the rest. This did nothing to help my low opinion of public education ;)

[Lumi]

That reminded me in Spanish class we watched a spanish series. It was about a girl named Catalina but thats all I remember I wasn't any good at spanish so I have no idea what she said. Well beside hi bye and red.

[dalurker]

The main one that stands out to me is The Morning After (or Day After? I get the names confused, but it's the 80's nuclear catastrophe movie). Having to sit through that and then the drills (anyone else remember those?) had me terrified. I remember going down into the woods every afternoon with a shovel to work on my bunker.

There were lots of movies we saw, but that one had me so traumatized, I can't really remember any of them.