As you watch Remember the Titans listen/look for answers to the following questions. Some of the questions have specific, concrete answers from the film, others ask for your opinion or interpretation.

1. What year was it when T.C. Williams High School was created?
   
   
2. What day does the team leave for football camp at Gettysburg College?
   
   
3. What reason does Gerry give when he tells Julius that he honestly thinks he (Julius) is "nothing, nothing but a pure waste of God-given talent"?
   
   
4. Ronny Bass joins the team during the camp at Gettysburg. What nickname does the team give him and why?
   
   
5. Does Sheryl approve of Coach Boone's football camp?
   
   
6. What happens on the first day of school?
   
   
7. Before the first game of the season, Coach Boone tell the team that they are already winners. Why does he believe this?
   
   
8. When Gerry tells his mother he plans to go play basketball with Julius, he tells him not to go. Gerry tells his mother she should just get to know Julius. His mother replies, "I don't want to get to know him."  This conversation between Gerry and his mom expresses one of the themes of the movie (theme="lesson"). What is this theme?
   
   
9. The beginning of game three starts differently than the other games. How does it start?
   
   
10. How does "Sunshine" prove that he can do a good job as the substitute quarterback?
    
    
11. Why does Yoast do that causes him to loose the nomination to the Virginia High School Football Hall of Fame?
    
    
12. Why does Gerry end up in the hospital?
    
    
13. Would the players have bonded if the team had not won?
    
    
14. How did playing football help the students over come their prejudices about each other?
    
    
15. How did the football team at T.C. Williams help the adults in the community overcome their prejudices?
    
    
16. Why does the movie begin and end with a funeral scene?