Share My Lesson and Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom contest and exclusive clips
Win a classroom set of movie tickets to Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.
We are proud and excited to be partnering with The Weinstein Company in support of the feature film Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. Together, we are launching a dynamic, Common Core-aligned 9th-12th grade curriculum based on the film. Check out these exclusive clips from the movie and download the full package of lesson plans.
In addition, The Weinstein Company and Share My Lesson are teaming together to send you and your students to the movies! To enter to win these tickets, follow these two steps:
- Download and read one of seven lesson plans from www.sharemylesson.com/mandela between October 22 and December 6 2013.
- Enter to win movie tickets here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/mandelafilm
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Mandela addresses youths
This scene shows Mandela addressing a large crowd of young people at a critical juncture in the fight against apartheid, when Sophiatown – a historic all-black neighborhood – was bulldozed by the government and residents were forcibly removed. This clip can be included in a lesson addressing Mandela’s role in fighting South Africa’s apartheid regime and whether his actions should be viewed as those of a freedom fighter or a criminal.
Mandela as a lawyer
Here, the audience sees a young Nelson Mandela, one of the few practicing black lawyers at the time, taking on the case of a young woman working as a maid in a white household who is accused of stealing from her boss. The clip highlights the divide between white and black people during apartheid and the prejudice experienced by Mandela -- despite his higher education and his professional status -- that made it difficult for him to practice law.
Mandela at Sophiatown
Mandela's words are heard against the backdrop of the Sophiatown Relocation, a actual historical event that occurred under apartheid when the all-white government determined that the neighborhood -- a hub of African culture, music, and politics in the 1940s and 1950s -- had developed and grown too close to the surrounding white suburbs. Its residents were forcibly removed and the town demolished.