Monday, October 10, 2011

Dolphin Tale - Finding Inspiration

The movie Dolphin Tale is based on a true story.  In fact, Winter, the dolphin in the movie, is the actual dolphin who lost her tail.

I would like you to watch the trailer of the movie and then answer the following questions:

1.  How can this story of survival and people coming together to do the impossible inspire you?

2.  What is an obstacle in your life that seems impossible? What can you do to try to overcome that obstacle?

3.  As you can see from Dolphin Tale, they have to reach out to others and ask for help to make their goal a reality.  Who can you ask for help?


If the above one doesn't work, please try this one:



Or please visit the official site for the movie here: Dolphin Tale

I am looking forward to hearing your responses!

Mr. Boettger  :-)

20 comments:

  1. wellzy

    This story can inspire me to do something that you think is impossible, and make it possible. Just like when the little boy saw the dolphin Winter and went to go help him.

    The obstacle that is in my way and I am going to try to and or get around is having a newborn baby in the house soon and I will not get very much sleep. One way I can get around that obstacle is to sleep with a pillow and or head phones in.

    Some people i can ask for help are all of my family members and some of my friends, and some of my old and new teachers.

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  2. Emily:

    Question 1:

    This story inspires me because i think it is just so great how all these people in the community come together to try and help out this dolphin winter that lost her after she got caught in a fishing net and it cut the circulation off in her tale and the vets at the aquarium had to amputate and take the tale off and all the people in the community put together a fun raiser to collect money to get winter a fake tale to swim with.

    Question 2:

    i don't really have an opsticle of impossible in my life but if i did to handle it i would try my very best to work my way out of it and keep doing that until i get out of it.

    Question:3

    The person they asked for help in the movie was im pretty sure his name was Dr.McCarthy and what he did to help was he made the artificial tale for the dolphin winter at first they had some bumps in the road when the tale didn't fit right and when the sock for the tale would rub and irritate winter. in the end everything worked out right and winter was able to swim right and wouldn't damage his spine.

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  3. 1 it can inspire me to help anamols
    2 do not know
    3mom,dad,teacher,students.

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  4. Yasmeen :)

    1.This inspires me because it shows me that nothings impossible because if you believe u can do it you can if u work hard and never give up :D.

    2.To grow 6 feet tall, I could eat my protein and veggies very day and maybe my body will get taller. :P

    3.I could ask help from my parents, friends, and teachers Because they all have faith in me and they believe that i can do anything if i set my heart to it :).

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  5. the trailer inspired me because i thought it was pretty cool that they put a tail on a dolphin..........2 i cant think of an ocpicle in my life............3 i can ask somone in my family or one of my friends for help (:\/) DUSTIN

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  6. Lynsay

    1. This movie about people coming together and doing the impossible inspires me to try my best to when I come to something that is impossible and do the impossible.

    2.In my life there is somethings that seem impossible to me for example in sports I do gymnastics and a lot of things that I come to seem impossible but I practice and practice. Other things in life that I will come to i will know to try my hardiest and think of ways to over come it.

    3. I can ask a lot of people for help I will mostly ask my family and my friends and my teacher for help because that is where the best help comes from.

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  7. Kala
    1.This story of the impossible and people coming together inspires me because I think this should happen more often.

    2.The obstacle that I have to over come in my is that I need to overcome my shyness and try to talk more in class.

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  8. Kala
    3. The people in my life that I will talk to are my family members and if it is a school issue I can talk to my teacher.

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  9. syd

    question 1:

    i think that it is inspiring that people are coming together to do the imposable and them make it possible. for example winter lost her tall and people are coming together help buy her and tall so she can swim to survive. also if people can do this for a dolphin maybe they can help with other things like working on not making as much garbage so that we don't kill animals in the ocean and forest.

    question 2:

    one obstacle in my life is that i have trouble read so

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  10. 1. It inspires me because it shows that if you work together we can accomplish anything if we try.
    2. there is no obstacle in my life that seems imposable and I need to over come.
    3. I can ask teachers, parents or any adults

    Jonathan

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  11. Sarah L:

    Question one:
    It inspires me because it shows you that nothings impossible and you can do anything if you try.

    Question Two:
    An obstacle that seems impossible is placing at provincials. I can practice as hard as I can to become better and then place at provincials.

    Question Three:
    I can ask my teachers for help, my parents and my friends for help. They can help me to achieve the impossible.

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  12. Kristin:
    1. This could inspire people to try and take a chance even if it seems like it will never work.

    2. To read more it just so boring. To try and over come this i could by finding a better book and try and read a little bit more.

    3. I can ask my parents, teacher and friends to help me pick out a good book or try and remind me to read.

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  13. Robert:1 This story of survival inspire me because they don't give up in what they belive in.
    2. In my life it seems impossibale to do a180 on a bmx but 1 thing u can do tohelp is pratise. I can ask friends that can do the trick and see how they do it.

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  14. Kirsten

    1. This movie inspires me because it shows people coming together to do something to help someone out

    2. There are no obstacles in my life but if there were i would tell my parents about it.

    3. I would ask my parents and friends for help to achieve my goals.

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  15. isaac :p :0 :)


    it inspires me because so many people cared about something randomly found on a beach

    2 an obstacle in my life is trying to do a three sixtie on my bmx and i can overcome that by practicing

    3 no one realy because to do a three sixtie there is realy no help involved the person trying to do a three sixtie has to get the proper hight a spin on there own the is no posible way to get help with that

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  16. Jaelen:

    Question 1:

    This story inspires me because the story is about a kid who finds a dolphin and never gives up on it. An example of this is the professor tells him that the dolphin will never swim and can't swim with out a tail, so the boy creates a waterproof tail that he puts on the dolphin and teaches him how to swim.

    Question 2:

    The obstacle in my life is to pass school and get a good job. The thing that I can do is to study hard and work hard all the time.

    Question 3:

    You can ask organizations that help animals like dolphins. An example of these of an organization is the O.S.P.C.A.

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  17. Google

    This story can inspire me to do something that you think is impossible, and make it possible. Just like when the little boy saw the dolphin Winter and went to go help him.

    The obstacle that is in my way and I am going to try to and or get around is having a newborn baby in the house soon and I will not get very much sleep. One way I can get around that obstacle is to sleep with a pillow and or head phones in.

    Some people i can ask for help are all of my family members and some of my friends, and some of my old and new teachers.

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  18. Talon
    1.The movie Dolphin Tale inspire me how they put a tale on a dolphin and the dolphin lived.
    2.A obstacle is not being there when some one dies.
    3.If I'm in a problem my mom will help me with the problem.

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  19. hailey:

    1. this inspires me because if you work together the impossible will be possible.

    2. to pass vet class and become a vet i can do this by paying atention to school.

    3.my friends , elders , and parent for help they can help me achive anything.

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  20. Lauren 1. When people come together and and try to do the impsible it inspires me a lot because they are all ting together to save the dolphins life!

    2. Math is my odsticle that i have lots of trouble with.

    3. what I would do to help is get donations and try to get many people together to save the dolphins life.

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