Flashback scene

Script for teacher film

In class flashback

Teacher: You see, much of early american writing largely focused on man's basic need for his fellow man,

Disruptive student: Yo that's mad gay! (laughter)

Teacher (continuing): Early american poets like Walt Whitman chose to exemplify the basic understanding for one another that people have by simply walking alongside them on a crowded new York city street. Whitman wrote many 'walking poems' in which the concept was that everyone is connected, separate only by our innate awkwardness.

Rebellious Student: That's full of shit- I think that insights from dead poets dont relate in our current context where we have things like cell phones, AIM, and other shit that keeps us totally connected to our friends, the important people in our lives. Whitman had nothing better to do than walk around the city, so of course he wanted to make it sound more interesting.

Teacher: That's a fair point- there isn't much to be said for interpersonal communication when people have all these multimedia devices keeping them synced into one anothers lives all day long. But think about it. When you are texting or calling whoever it is you talk to, you miss out on everything around you. The only way to make any new friends is to spend some time away from the old ones. Go outside and talk to people for once. In fact, the odds are that you're too afraid to do what these dead poets have done, and you feel much safer with your cell phone security blanket.

Class: Ooooooooohhhhh!