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CONRACK
SUBJECTS
--- U.S./1945 - 1991; Diversity; South Carolina;
SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING --- Male Role Model; Work;
Education;
MORAL-ETHICAL EMPHASIS --- Respect.
Age: 10+; MPAA Rating: PG; Drama; 1974; 111 minutes; Color.
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A young white teacher volunteers to work at a school an isolated barrier island off South Carolina's Atlantic coast. His students are poor black children of the Gullah culture. He uses ingenious methods to overcome the tremendous cultural deficits among his students but runs afoul of a racist white educational establishment that can't tolerate innovation.
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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 Conrack.
Yamacraw Island, the location of the events shown
in this movie, is one of the Sea Islands, a group of low
marshy islands located off the coast of
Florida, Georgia and South Carolina. Before the Civil War,
the islands contained large plantations that specialized in
growing rice and long staple cotton. After the Civil War,
the newly freed slaves took over the land and lived in
isolation for decades. They developed a distinctive culture
and dialect both of which are called "Gullah."
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