World War II movies that are suitable for classroom use
If you (or someone you know) attended the typical American public school at any grade level, you doubtlessly remember that unless you were lucky to get a creative and enthusiastic instructor who had great motivational skills, most of the core curriculum classes were, well, boring. In most cases, one of the most boring courses students have to suffer is American History, which is often broken up into two units during a school year (U.S. History to 1877 and U.S. History From 1877 to the Present). Now, history as a subject in and of itself shouldn’t be boring; it has a huge scale and a great deal of human drama, what with the rise and fall of civilizations and empires, the emergence of great (and not so great) leaders, technological, scientific and philosophical advances, the foundation of great cities and – inevitably – conflicts of all sorts and sizes. However, with teachers often teaching history according to the Great Men school of thought and cramming hundreds of dr...