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OLD YELLER
SUBJECTS --- U.S./1865 - 1913;
SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING --- Courage; Grieving (for an
animal);
MORAL-ETHICAL EMPHASIS --- Responsibility.
Age: 7 - 12; Not Rated; Drama; 1957; 83 minutes; Color.
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Old Yeller is a stray dog who adopts the
family of a former Confederate soldier living in frontier Texas.
The time is just after the Civil War and everyone is very poor.
Despite initial missteps, Yeller wins his way into everyone's
heart and saves the lives of several family members. In the
process, he is bitten by a rabid wolf.
The TeachWithMovies.com Learning Guide to Old Yeller helps parents and teachers use the film to show the terror of rabies before vaccinations were available, the marginal life of frontier homesteads in the West in the period after the Civil War, and the courage required to overcome the difficulties of that environment. It is an excellent supplement for a course on U.S. history after the Civil War.
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To give you a sense of how our Learning Guides can be used by teachers as lesson plans and by parents to supplement school curriculum or for homeschooling, we have set out below a paragraph from the Learning Guide to Old Yeller.
The railroads did not reach West Texas until the 1880s.
Before then, it was necessary for Texas ranchers to drive
their herds to the closest railroad terminus points.
Wichita, Dodge City and Abilene, the so-called Cow Towns,
were the most important. Each year, tens of thousands of
cattle were herded north on trails such as the Chisholm
Trail from San Antonio to Abilene. It was an early cattle
drive that took Mr. Coates away from his family to get "cash
money."
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