Remember the Titans - Questions

Remember the Titans

1.  How did playing football help the students overcome their racial prejudice? What other activities can help people overcome their differences and begin working together?

2.  Which of the characters in this film forged new ground in their relationships with others?

3.  Why did Coach Yoast stay on as an assistant to Coach Boone?

4.  If you had been Coach Yoast would you have given up your chance to be in the hall of fame in order to help Coach Boone and the team?

5.  Would the team have bonded had it not won?

6.  What do you think would have happened if the team had bonded, had lost a game in the middle of the season, and the school board had tried to replace Boone as head coach?

7.  Coaches Boone and Yoast agree that a coach is first and foremost a teacher. How does a coach teach?

8.  If coaches are first and foremost teachers, list what they should teach their students in order of importance.

9.  Do you agree that Coach Yoast was too soft on the black players?

10.  Have you had a teacher, or a coach who inspired you to do your best? How did they do it?

11.  Describe the different methods of motivating the team favored by Coach Boone and Coach Yoast. Remember Yoast's statement to Boone: "There's a fine line between tough and crazy and you're flirting with it." Why did Coach Boone push the boys so hard?

12.  What were the similarities in the coaching styles of Boone and Yoast and were those similarities more or less important than the differences?

13.  This story has several male role models. Look at the coaches and the players Bertier and Campbell. What characteristics of each do think is their best trait as a male role model?