by CLSP Team | Jan 1, 2015 | High School History, Movies
Prince Albert (nicknamed Bertie), Duke of York, son of King George V of England, is plagued with a stammer. Over the years, Bertie sees many different doctors with many different techniques for helping him overcome his speech defect, but to no avail. Despite her...
by CLSP Team | Jan 1, 2015 | Movies
Livy Dunne is a highly educated woman studying to become a professor of archeology at the end of World War II. When a one night tryst with an army soldier leaves Livy pregnant and alone, her preacher father gives her no other choice but to get married as quickly as...
by CLSP Team | Jan 1, 2015 | Movies
Jim and Cindy Green are a young couple who long to have a family of their own. Cindy works at the Crudstaff House and Pencil Museum. Jim works at the Stanleyville pencil factory, which is in the process of being closed. Jim and Cindy are unable to have children, even...
by CLSP Team | Jan 1, 2015 | High School History, Movies
Władysław Szpilman is a well-known Jewish pianist in Warsaw, Poland, on the brink of World War II. The film opens as he is playing for the Warsaw radio station when the city gets bombed and Germany invades Poland. Because he and his family are Jewish, they feel the...
by CLSP Team | Jan 1, 2015 | Movies
After his grandfather’s death, Jason Stevens is given the chance to inherit “the ultimate gift,” but only if he follows a series of instructions. If Jason fails any of the tasks given to him, he forfeits the “ultimate gift.” A playboy who has always known wealth,...
by CLSP Team | Jan 1, 2015 | High School Civics and Government, High School History, High School Literature, Movies
Based on the novel by Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird tells the story of a rape trial in the 1930s through the perspective of a child. Scout Finch is a precocious six-year-old girl living in Maycomb, Alabama, with her brother Jem and her father Atticus. Though the...
