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| Title | Activities for The Heart is a Lonely Hunter |
| Body | The Heart is a Lonely Hunter is an excellent movie to demonstrate the communicative isolation that the Deaf experience among Hearing people. It also demonstrates the control that hearing individuals have over the Deaf as well. I showed this movie to my high school students when I was teaching High School, and now to my community college students even though it is rather long and tries to deal with several issues at the same time. Maybe the producers did not think that there was enough of a story and wanted to use the others as filler. Nah..... these things were in the book as well. You might want to break your high school students into groups and encourage a discussion based on the following questions: Is it realistic to assume that Singer could understand everyone one hundred percent of the time? Did the Deaf in this story have control over their destiny? Why or why not? (It was clear that Singer wanted to have his friend live with him, why was that not allowed?) Discuss social isolation..... imagine that you were the only two hearing people in a Deaf world. How would you communicate? As a Deaf man, in a hearing world, was Singer successful in buidling relationships with hearing people? Discuss Singer's personality. What were his strengths and what were his weaknesses? How did Singer's lack of a close relationship with affect his life? Why was Singer such a caretaker? Was that healthy? Why or why not? Was it appreciated? Who took care of Singer emotionally? What impacted you most about the movie? How is the movie realistic or unrealistic? Ask them to pick one person who would be willing to share the group's feedback when you come back into the large group. You can also ask them to journal about these questions if you do not want to have a discussion forum. Or you could ask them to journal first, and then break them into groups for discussion. Stuard, V. (24 May 2004). Re: a heart is lonely hunter movie. A discussion list for teachers of American Sign Language. TEACHASL@ADMIN.HUMBERC.ON.CA (27May 2004). |
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| Inputdate | 2004-05-27 23:30:00 |
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