This document appears to be an activity sheet for a movie called "Law Abiding Citizen". It provides questions for students to answer about the plot and characters. The plot involves an engineer named Clyde whose wife and daughter are murdered. The prosecutor makes a deal with one perpetrator to testify against the other for a lesser charge, leaving Clyde feeling betrayed by the justice system. The sheet asks students to compare the lawyer and father's personalities at the start and end of the movie, and to give their opinion on the characters' behavior and whether they would act the same way.
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This document appears to be an activity sheet for a movie called "Law Abiding Citizen". It provides questions for students to answer about the plot and characters. The plot involves an engineer named Clyde whose wife and daughter are murdered. The prosecutor makes a deal with one perpetrator to testify against the other for a lesser charge, leaving Clyde feeling betrayed by the justice system. The sheet asks students to compare the lawyer and father's personalities at the start and end of the movie, and to give their opinion on the characters' behavior and whether they would act the same way.
This document appears to be an activity sheet for a movie called "Law Abiding Citizen". It provides questions for students to answer about the plot and characters. The plot involves an engineer named Clyde whose wife and daughter are murdered. The prosecutor makes a deal with one perpetrator to testify against the other for a lesser charge, leaving Clyde feeling betrayed by the justice system. The sheet asks students to compare the lawyer and father's personalities at the start and end of the movie, and to give their opinion on the characters' behavior and whether they would act the same way.
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This document appears to be an activity sheet for a movie called "Law Abiding Citizen". It provides questions for students to answer about the plot and characters. The plot involves an engineer named Clyde whose wife and daughter are murdered. The prosecutor makes a deal with one perpetrator to testify against the other for a lesser charge, leaving Clyde feeling betrayed by the justice system. The sheet asks students to compare the lawyer and father's personalities at the start and end of the movie, and to give their opinion on the characters' behavior and whether they would act the same way.
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Movie Activity Law Abiding Citizen Teacher Lauren T. Ferreira
1. Briefly, tell the story with your own words.
__________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ 2. Describe the personality traits of the lawyer (Nick) and the father (Clyde). Compare them at the beginning of the movie and later. ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ 3. Why did Clyde refuse a lawyer in his first trial? What did he want to prove? Do you agree with him? ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ 4. Whats your opinion about their general behavior? Would you act the same? If so, explain why. If not, what would you do differently? ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ 5. What do you understand with the sentence You cant fight fate? Do you believe that? ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ Complete the sentences with the correct word. career-minded - accomplice - blacked out - witnesses - testimony - death row betrayed Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler), a Philadelphia engineer, ________________ the rape and murder of both his wife and five-year old daughter at the hands of Clarence J. Darby (Christian Stolte) and __________________ Rupert Ames (Josh Stewart), leaving Shelton emotionally scarred. He is told by _______________ prosecutor Nick Rice (Jamie Foxx) that the case was compromised by a bungled forensic investigation and Shelton's ____________ cannot incriminate either man because he _________________ during the incident. Rice, interested in maintaining his 96% conviction rate, makes a secret deal with Darby: in return for pleading guilty to third-degree murder, he will provide testimony that will send Ames to ______________ for what is, essentially, a robbery charge. Shelton is left feeling ________________.