Activities:

Before viewing

Depending on context, teachers may wish to use the list of themes below to focus viewing, or guide discussion afterwards.

Themes (see outline for timings).

1. Tensions among young people in a mixed-race urban community.
2. Potential consequences of taking law into own hands and carrying knives.
3. Personal safety, relationships and trust.

After Viewing

1. Build a profile of Leah using the following to help: relationship with basketball coach, mum, brother, boyfriend, friends, police. How do students personally feel about her? What decision do you think she'll come to in relation to naming Roni? Give reasons for answer. Discuss differing views and any consensus.
2. Leah takes a series of risks in the film. Identify and assess them on a five point scale from 'low' to 'high'. In each case why do you think she behaves in the way she does? In light of risk analysis what do you think she'll do about Roni?
3. Ask students as class, in pairs or small groups to give opinions, and account for them, on: Roni as a person, his lifestyle and how it might have arisen, his feelings for Leah, what the future holds for him, what could be a positive way out. Discuss differing views and any consensus.

Key Questions

1. Can you account for the different ways Roni and Leah react to same situation?
2. Is it the case young people won't report crime against them to the police?
3. What are the dangers of young people taking the law into their own hands?
4. Why is this? What could be done to improve the situation?
5. What could be done in your local environment?