What is the relationship of the father and the son in the song?
What is the father's advice to his son?
What is the son's reaction?
Watch the trailer for the movie "Scaffolding".
Answer the following questions:
1. What is the boy's feeling about school?
2. What is the father's opinion of school?
3. What are the father's expectations from his son?
4. Think - how are these expectations similar /different from what you are used to see?
5. Who do you think has more influence on the boy? Who usually has more influence on children- parents or teachers?
The story takes place in Kentucky - the map
Black and white documentary from 1940 of poverty in the Appalachian Mountains including footage from inside a schoolhouse. It's from an experiment to see if education can raise the socio-economic level of the Appalachians.