Base your answers to the questions below on your viewing of "Teaching the Levees," Act 2, Chapter 5.
1. In what way is Gen. Honore shown as a "All-American Hero?"
2. How is the Convention Center evacuation portrayed?
3. What images come to mind as the convoy is shown arriving in town?
4. What are the images of evacuation? What associations do you have to those images?
5. Herbert Freeman describes being forced to leave his dead mother behind in order to get on the bus. How does this dilemma make you feel?
6. Do you think the documentary is presenting a BALANCED account of the breaching (breaking) of the levees? Does the director, Spike Lee, have a point of view?
