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Remember The Titans Questions

This document provides discussion questions and prompts about the 2000 film "Remember the Titans". It asks the reader to describe the main characters, discuss key events and themes in the movie around school integration and race relations in 1971 Virginia. Questions explore how the football team comes together under coaches Herman Boone and Bill Yoast to overcome division and find unity, as well as how music, pivotal moments and the players' own actions are used to develop understanding and break down barriers between the black and white communities.

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Remember The Titans Questions

This document provides discussion questions and prompts about the 2000 film "Remember the Titans". It asks the reader to describe the main characters, discuss key events and themes in the movie around school integration and race relations in 1971 Virginia. Questions explore how the football team comes together under coaches Herman Boone and Bill Yoast to overcome division and find unity, as well as how music, pivotal moments and the players' own actions are used to develop understanding and break down barriers between the black and white communities.

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Remember the Titans

Characters: Give description of each character. Who are they, their importance, etc. Add your
favorite that is not listed as #6.

1. Herman Boone –

2. Bill Yoast –

3. Gerry Bertier –

4. Big Julius Campbell –

5. Sheryl Yoast –

6. ___________________ -

Questions:

1. What was integration in 1971 at T.C. Williams High School? Why was it such a
problem?
2. What position is Coach Boone put into when he is told that he is appointed head coach of
the football team with:
a. Coach Yoast –
b. The Black Community –
c. The White Community –
d. His Players –

3. Coach Boone applies the statement, “this is not a democracy” to his players and coaching
staff. How effective is this as a leadership approach? Why?

4. How is music used in the movie to initially show the separation of the groups and then
bring them together?

5. What does Gerry Bertier learn about his leadership and attitude from Julius and the Rev?

6. Coach Boone takes the team on the night run to where 50,000 men died at the Battle of
Gettysburg. What was the fight that they are “still fighting today”?

7. The coaches present the framework of success for the team. What do the players do to
create a possibility for this success?

8. What is evident on the first day back to school even though the team has come together?

9. Why is Coach Yoast willing to lose his Hall of Fame nomination in the Regional Final
game?

10. After Gerry Bertier’s accident, what does Coach Yoast pont out to Boone as being his
problematic attitude toward the game?

11. In the final game, what does Coach Yoast realize that he has to change at half time? Why
is this ironic considering what the players have already done?

12. The movie ends with a funeral, but what to the players do to bring themselves to closure?

13. Walt Disney studios wanted to rename this movie. What do you think would be a good
alternative name to this movie? Explain.
Summary: At the end of the movie give a 5-7 sentence summary. Remember to have a topic
sentence, supporting details and a conclusion.

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