Submitted by Karen, SE Nebraska
Idea posted June 18, 2004
If you do a unit on Beethoven, try showing the scenes from Mr. Holland's Opus where Mr. Holland learns that his son is deaf and then it cuts to a classroom scene where he is discussing Beethoven's deafness. This had my sixth graders riveted, and when I showed the Beethoven Lives Upstairs™ video a few days later it gave them another dimension from which to view it.