Breakfast Club

Teen films explore the difficulties of growing up and the transition from childhood to adulthood. Breakfast Club follows 5 high school students as they endure a Saturday detention at school. They begin the film as stereotypes: the brain, the athlete. the princess, the basket case, and the criminal. However, we learn to view them differently by the end. What changes in our view of them and what do you think is the message that we might learn from this new understanding?
Directions: Identify each character and how our understanding of them changes. We learn something from changing our views of the characters. How might that lesson be applied in our own lives? Identify the overall “message” from what we learn about how we look at (and treat) people from other groups. Use examples from the movie to make your point.
Use the first column of the chart below to list the characters and how our understanding of them changes.
Use the second column to make notes about how their views of each other change.
At the bottom note the overall message about how we treat people from other groups.
Write a paragraph that explains the films ideas and what we can learn from it.
Include the name of the movie, the filmmaker, and a statement of the point you are making.
Briefly include background information on the movie.
Include concrete evidence from the move that specifically demonstrates the changes.
Explain the connection and your position