Name _______________________________ Mods_____________

Date With

Your Family

1. Why did the daughter change her clothes for dinner?

2. Why should the son NOT spend a lot of time on the phone? (2 reasons)

3. What should the boys talk to their father about when he comes home?

4. What type of conversation should take place at the dinner table? Why?

5. Why should you compliment the cooks of the meal? (mother and daughter)

6. What are some of the “Don’ts” of dinner?

Don’t monopolize the _________________________.

Don’t discuss unpleasant ____________________.

Don’t make unkind comparisons to other people’s standard of ___________.

Don’t insult your brother or ________________.

7. Look at your previous answers. What do these rules and behaviors tell you about the values of the 1950’s?

8. Compare dinner at your house to dinner in the video. How are they different?

9. How are they the same?

10. Why does it appear this way?