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The Help

'… trying to understand,' Kathryn Stockett wrote, 'is vital to our humanity.' Solid point. And the film version of The Help, directed and written – at Stockett's request – by the relatively inexperienced Tate Taylor (her friend from Jackson), does full justice to that intention. Short on style and flashy technique, The Help on film compensates with genuine emotional force. Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

Contents

Teachers' Guide		Study Programme
Introduction	3	Introduction	2
Suggested Teaching Plan	4	After the First Viewing	3
After the First Viewing	5	Initial Quiz	4
Initial Quiz Answers	6	Analysing the Plot	5
Plot Outline	7	Narrative Structure Task Sheet	6
Analysing the Plot	8	Conflict Task Sheet	7
Narrative Structure	9	Film Techniques Checklist	8
Conflict	11	Close Reading the Text Task Sheets	10
Scene-by-scene Commentary	12	Design and Setting	14
Close Reading the Text	24	Characterisation	15
Setting: the Facts	31	Controversy	17
Designing the Film	33	Useful Quotations	18
Production Design Notes	36	Cast and Awards	20
Characters and Actors	37	Behind the Camera: the Crew	21
Themes: an approach	44	Scene List	22
Themes Notes	45	Glossary of Film Terms	24
Controversy: Some Responses	47	Worksheets
Extension and Connections	48	Study Record	2
From Page to Screen	50	Plot Outline	3
Music	51	From Screenplay to Film: Analysing scene 1	4
Postmodern Allusions	51	Plot Structure	5
Who Says? – Answers	52	Techniques	7
Word Search Answers	53	Who Says?	9
Interesting Trivia	54	Word Search	10
Appendix: Plot Strands Answers	55	Scene-by-scene WS	11
Extras: three PowerPoint presentations: 'Design and Costumes' plus two quizzes (character ID and shots); the screenplay, a huge library of pics from the film and a selection of historical photographs.

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