Finished showing some of my students 'Ferris Beuller's Day Off'  which I think is a great movie.  And one of the teachers at one point told me that it was good because the Ss could connect with the school setting and wanting to ditch school.   I also showed it because the movie was filmed mostly in the area that I am from, the North Shore of Chicago.   Areas like Highland Park, Winnetka, Glencoe, Lake Forest, and Wilmette.    So it was a way to show how things are in the US, because it was an every day sort of movie, nothing too crazy happened.  Except that maybe you couldn't just sing a parade at anytime or toss a rare Ferrari out a window into a ravine.