Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Notes from Stand and Deliver

For the movie "Stand and Deliver" I just started writing short notes that I felt were important bits to remember later.
The movie starts with Jaime Escalante driving to the school where he will be teaching and the scene around him is of an obviously of lower income area in East Los Angeles.  There are kids running along the sidewalks, and businesses that cater to the locals open, taco stand, Hispanic storefronts, a pickup truck with Hispanic men in it on their way to work. 
When Jaime arrives at the school and goes to the main office for his room assignment he sees chaos as a police officer is taking a statement.  The office has been vandalized.  The cop asked the secretary  where the fecal  material is and is told "over there.  You will know when you smell it"
A scene when Jamie goes into the classroom and after telling the students to take their seats one of the female students ask if they can learn about sex. Jaime says "If I teach  about sex I have to give sex for homework" 
When Jamie gets to his classroom he tells the kids to take their seats and after some talk back and forth tells all the Hispanic kids that  can't  speak  English to sit in the front of the class.
The bell rings and the kids  leave but the bell has been rigged to go off early and the students are told to return to their classes.
After school, Jamie gets to his car and finds it has been vandalized. 
The next day, Jamie dresses as a short order cook and gives the lesson about percentages of an apple.  This is also when the scene with Tito and being the finger man takes place. 
Later, Jamie  walks out to the courtyard where a fight is taking place and stops Angel Guzman from joining the  fight. 
He convinces Angel to continue with the math  and gives him three textbooks so no one will know that he is doing his homework and actually learning. 
Scenes of the home life of one of the female students.  She is trying to study after putting her siblings to bed but her mom comes in and asks her to turn off the light so she can sleep.
Scenes of Angel riding around with Tito all night and then going to class late but begging to be  able to stay in class.  He  is obviously exhausted from not sleeping but still manages to get to class and wants to be there. 
Jamie  attends a staff  meeting where the talk centers around the school  losing its  accreditation.  Jamie says that the students  will  rise to the level of expectation. 

2 comments:

  1. You really got everything covered, great notes!

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  2. Good notes on the movie. I find what other people find important enough to take notes on refreshing. It helps me round out my own ideas. Thank you for the insight.

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