1. The document provides instructions for an activity to analyze and discuss a scene from the TV show "The Newsroom" where characters debate whether America is still the greatest country. 2. Students are assigned roles of characters from the video and must analyze how their character felt and reacted during the discussion, and what they and other characters could have done differently. 3. They then discuss their character's perspectives in small groups before answering reflective questions from their character's point of view.

1. AMERICA IS NOT THE
GREATEST ANY MORE
Activity for the opening scene to “The Newsroom”

2. THE NEW YORK JETS
• Watch the video and observe.

3. WHO YOU ARE
• You have been assigned a number, write that number at the top of you paper.
• Turn in your number cards.
• You are the following people:
1. Angry woman on the stage
2. Moderator (Man asking the questions)
3. Angry man on the stage with the brown hair
4. Man in the middle of the stage (“New York Jets”)
5. Blonde woman in the audience that asked the question

4. HOW DO YOU FEEL?
• You are the person assigned to you on the previous slide.
• While watching the video again, focus on being that person.
• After the video, on your paper, answer the following questions:
1. How did you feel?
2. What was wrong with the way you were spoken to?
3. What was wrong with the way you spoke to others?

5. IN THEIR SHOES
• Group with classmates who had the same character from the video as you.
• Discuss the questions from the video (from the point of view of your
character)
1. How did you feel?
2. What was wrong with the way you were spoken to?
3. What was wrong with the way you spoke to others?
• Answer the following questions as a group (put your answers into your
notebook)
1. Why did you feel the way you did?
2. What would you like to see other characters do differently?
3. What could you (your character) have done differently?