Drumline

Are you familiar with the plot of Drumline? Here’s a bit of information as background:
A kid from Harlem is recruited into a southern university marching band. Thinking that he is the answer to all the band’s problems does not score him any points with the tough band professor. Everyone needs a lesson in what it means to work as a team, and what it means to be responsible for one another.
This 2002 film from 20th Century Fox is directed by Charles Stone III, written by Tina Gordon Chism and Shawn Schepps, and stars Nick Cannon, Zoe Saldana, Orlando Jones, Leonard Roberts, GQ, Jason Weaver, Earl Poitier, and Candace Carey.

• If you are viewing this film clip with your Upstander Alliance group, try to make a connection of how everyone in the group is there to support each other as a “team”, just like in this film clip.
• Do people in your discussion group feel comfortable sharing ideas and opinions?
• Make sure that you establish ground rules that ensure that everyone can speak without the fear of judgment or ridicule.

• What do you think this quirky equation means:  “I=WE”? Is it true that what one person does can affect a whole group?
• What’s the difference between helpful or harmful peer pressure?
• Are we responsible for other’s actions? Why or why not?
• Have you ever had an experience where you could not finish a job or a task until someone else did their part?

Try to set up a project or an assignment where no one can finish until everyone does their part.  See how people react to this exercise and see if you can learn something about good ways to cooperate to get a job done.