The Most Hated Family In America ( Formative assessment (shared with Recording Reality students)
The Most Hated Family In America The documentary is about the Westboro Baptist Church located in Topecka Kansas, the head of which is Fred Phelps. The Westboro Baptist Church members are most famous for protesting at the funerals of American solders killed in action, holding signs like “God Hates Fags” and “ Thank God For Dead Soldiers ”. When writing a documentary, Louis speaks to a few members of The Westboro Baptist Church. Shirley Phelps-Roper is the matriarch of the family. She is in charge of a family of 11 kids. She organizes all of the church’s protests and often appears in the news as a mouth piece. For example at the beginning of the documentary, we see a snippet of a recent studio interview she gave on a national news show. Louis interviews Shirley principally to find out what reasoning and arguments lie behind The Westboro Baptist Church’s actions. In one particular segment of the documentary, Louis travels with the family across America in order to protest a...
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