This essay will require the following:

Five paragraphs with five sentences each.

1. Write 2-paragraph summary of the movie.
2. Write a paragraph on the role that coal mining plays in the movie.
3. Write some ways that the town in the movie relates to our town and some ways in which it is different.
4. Tell how this movie relates to science.

Rubric:

Length	50 points
Readability: Are your thoughts clear and well supported? Does your essay make good sense to whomever is reading it?	25 points
Grammar: Capitalization, punctuation (DO NOT use "and", "but", or "it" at the beginning of a sentence.	25 points