Unpacking themes and ideas.
Theme/Idea - the ideas the story centers around. - message we are trying to convey to the audience.
Tolerance - the quality of allowing other people to have their own attitudes, beliefs, or to behave in a particular way, even if we don't agree or approve.
Overcoming Adversity - Pushing past/getting through something difficult or dangerous.
The students don't respect or have a relationship with their teacher. They don't understand each other. They drew a racist picture of Jamal. The students yell at the teachers, face different directions, tell her they don't give her respect.
Andre - "why should I give my respect to you? Because you're a teacher? I don't know you. How do I know you're not a liar standing up there"
They aren't in a headspace to learn because they don't feel safe-bring guns to school, mock each other, no tolerance for each other. Marcus - " Lady, I'm lucky if I make it to 18, we in a war! We graduating every day we live because we ain't afraid to die protecting our own"
