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I teach a music appreciation elective (grades 9-12), and for the final unit of the school year, I am teaching them about music's purpose in film. I am not really a music teacher, but this is an elective I've been given to teach, and I'm pulling knowledge from my own experience taking film literature in 12th grade (years ago lol), and my general knowledge of music from when I used to study it as a kid. This week, I've taught them about diegetic/non-diegetic music, the difference between scores and soundtracks, and leitmotifs. Are there other important terms to teach, and what are some good movie suggestions, specific guiding questions/topics to draw their attention to as we finish the year? Thanks in advance!

Title is pretty self explanatory- I'm a newish high school teacher with 150+ students. Everything I've learned from tenured and veteran teachers is to cya in regards to making outreach, especially if a student is failing. As we all know, especially secondary teachers with many students, there is never enough time to do everything we're told to do. If a kid is also consistently failing, not doing work, skipping or coming late to class (and there are at least 5 of these kids in each class), how are we expected to make outreach every single week? Especially when these behaviors never change, that can easily become a 3rd of all of your students.

I know we have to, and why we have to in order to protect ourselves, so my question is what are ways you find the time to consistently make outreach, especially once it's time for report cards?