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What was your favorite movie as a child?
What movie character would you most like to be?
Do you prefer comedies, dramas, or action movies?
What actor or actress do you admire?
In what movie would you love to play the starring role?

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Literary lenses are a way to infuse perspective-taking in the discussion so that we learn to look at literature or movies from new perspectives.

Each movie or book is a new opportunity to use a new lens. Today we will use three of them: the influencer, the critic, and the historian.

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MarMee - Compassion Speaks Louder Than Words

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MarMee - Compassion Speaks Louder Than Words

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What did Marmee teach her daughters?

What does Marmee do to support others affected by the war? Where does she go for her husband? How does everyone support her?

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Jo March - Passion With Persistence is Key

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Jo March - Passion With Persistence is Key

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Why does Jo reject Laurie’s marriage proposal? What is Laurie’s reaction? Why does this scene end with a high angle long shot?

In the present, why does Jo regret rejecting Laurie now? What does Jo say about women, love, and loneliness?

What does Jo do to support her mom? What is everyone’s reaction, including her own? What can her new hairdo symbolize? Why?

What do Amy and Beth insist Jo do? Why? Why does Mr. Dashwood want to publish Jo’s book?

What does Mr. Dashwood insist Jo do to her resolution? Why? Why does Jo agree?

What does Jo negotiate with her contract? Why does she want to own the copyright? How is she indirectly characterized by this action?

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Meg March - We Have Different Dreams- They’re All Important! 

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Meg March - We Have Different Dreams- They’re All Important! 

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What is Jo’s response to Meg’s marriage? Why?

In a flashback, what does Meg tell Jo on her wedding day about her views on marriage? Why is Meg filmed via low angle and Jo via high angle?

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Why is Beth sick? Why doesn’t Beth want Amy to know about her sickness?

What do Jo and Beth discuss at the beach? Why isn’t Jo writing? What is Beth’s advice?

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Amy March  - Persevere And Create Without Needing To Be Great

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Amy March  - Persevere And Create Without Needing To Be Great

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How does Amy regard her art?

Why does Amy say she’ll marry Tom Vaughn? Why is marriage an economic proposition, especially in this setting?

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Aunt March  - “You can be right and foolish”

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Aunt March  - “You can be right and foolish”

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Why does Aunt March take Amy to Europe, not Jo? What is Jo’s reaction? How is she indirectly characterized by it?

In a flashback, what do Aunt March and Amy discuss? How does the mise en scene underscore their power relationship?

In the present, what does Aunt March tell Amy, and what is Amy’s response? Why? What is Aunt March’s reaction?

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How does Laurie regard the March household and all the girls there, especially Jo? How do they treat him?

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What is the film’s resolution? What has each March character successfully achieved personally and professionally?

What does Little Women imply as a theme about topics like marriage? How do these themes first written in Louisa May Alcott’s novel in 1868 and 1869 apply to today (if at all)?

How can Little Women be considered a work of feminism or viewed through a feminist lens?