"Chalk" Notes

Notes of The movie Chalk:
Chalk is about a group of teachers and their different challenges and experiences that they faced though the course of a school year.

The movie starts off with an into to the different teachers, a history teacher whom just started teaching, a PE teacher who doesn't seem to have the full attention of the students, a assistant principle who just started and is finding her job challenging. A different history teacher who is motivated to teach and have the students learn. The 3rd year history teacher is striving to win the teacher of the year award. The teachers show how in some subjects, they struggle to keep the attention of their students. At one week before thanksgiving, some teachers seem to be having success in their teachings. The PE teacher for example is having a great success. The first year history teaches is not sharing that same success but over time he has Incorporated more humor into his classroom. This method seems to be working for his classroom so far. As the year progresses the teachers seem  to be doing better and better in class. Except for the first year history teacher who snapped at a kid when his cell phone went off. He confronts the mother of one of the students and ends up drinking wine with her. The assistant principle and the PE teacher start to have an argument about rules. The 3rd year history teacher is dedicated to win the teacher of the year award so much, that he sounds as if he is running for president. He is sent into a state of sadness and aggravated when his rival is declared the winner. On the other hand the First year history teacher starts to get the hang of teaching. He also wins the teacher's edition of the spelling bee and "spiting" out some rhymes.  Still after all the success he has found, he finds himself debating if he even wants to return next year to teach. The movie ends with the teachers telling us about the different lessons they learned.

The only question I am left with is the credditiability of this film. I don't feel that the students and the teachers would act in the mannor that they did if their really were cameras following them around all the time. I think that the wors thing about this movie was the camera angles. To put it short, If they actually used something besides a close up for every shot or an obstruction shot. I would have been able to pay more attention to the film.