October Sky

Just recently, I watched a very inspirational and touching film, called October Sky.  It was about how young men from a coal mining town begin to try to launch rockets.  In their attempts and experiments, the boys used a lot of math, especially Homer.  He taught himself trigonometry just by reading a book.  Also, another connection to math is that they could calculate where their rockets landed by using different factors about the launch.  A connection to character education from this movie is determination.  Homer and the rocket boys showed determination because no matter what people said or did to them, they kept pushing forward.  The biggest case was Homer determined to make his father proud of him by building rockets, instead of coal mining.  He was determined to make this happen, and go to college.  Homer succeeded in both areas.