1. It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing…
SWING KIDS
It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing…

2. OBJECTIVE:
Today we will recall the film so that we can make higher-level connections between it and the novel “The Children of Willesden Lane.”
Think about how these two different stories may share similar themes, settings, and characters.

3. PLOT:
In WWII Germany, Swing music becomes the underground movement of young people. Two engineering students attempt to be Swing Kids by night and Hitler Youth by day. The impact of this decision is felt acutely by their friends and families. A charming SS officer complicates matters for peter, whose father was taken away for defending his Jewish colleagues at the University.
CHARACTERS:
Peter Muller
Thomas Berger
Arvid
Herr Schumler

4. You see where it says:
“Questions: Answers DO NOT need to be in full sentences.
Please take your writing material and violently (or not) scribble that out.
Yes… ALL RESPONSES MUST BE IN FULL SENTENCES!!!11
Every response you write in English class should always be in a full sentence.
90% of responses you write in ANY OTHER class should also be in FULL SENTENES.
Stop complaining.

5. What is a Swing Kid?
Answer this question as part of your response:
What does Swing music and culture represent to these characters?

6. 2. What is a Hitler Youth?
Why might young people
choose to follow this path?

7. 3. When the HJ arrive at the Bismark, the music changes quickly, why?

8. 4. What do Peter and Thomas steal?
What might be the significance of this specific item?

9. 5. Why wasn’t Peter sent to a juvenile work camp for the theft?
What did Herr Schumler see in Peter?

10. 6.Why did Thomas join the HJ?
Would you have done the same thing?

11. 7. What do the HJ do to Arvid when they find him on the street with a Benny Goodman album?
How do you think Arvid felt about what happened? (Think deep than OUCH)

12. HOMEWORK dun dun dun
On your own, finish through question 12. Be ready to present your answers in the next class.