Mona Lisa Smile real time notes.

-The name of the main charecture is Kathrin Watson.
-Teaches Art history
-It is a verry formal school, for example at the beginning of the year they have a cerimony to open the school.
-as far as i can tell its a girls school (no men allowed to even visit)
-the area is very sterio tipically conservative
-even though the school is supposed to be well manered some of the girls are trouble makers.
-even though Kathrin is supposed to be teaching the class the girls seem to already know everything she is planning to teach.
-Kathrin Watson's first day of school is a disheartening experience because not only because the students already new the whole class, but also because they behaved extreemly differently then the students from where she grew up.  it is also a bad day because the board members are rude and expect her to already know how to deal with the class before the first day.
-The biology teacher has her own unique way of helping Kathrin, for example she remarks how everyone in the area has their own bite.
- Kathrin gets the class to debate about art.
- The second day of school is much better for Kathrin because she has figured out how to teach her students.
-The girtls only know how to say and act like someone else tought them.
-Betty Waren does not like disobedience.
-Betty has enough power to get pretty much any teacher fired that she wants.
-things are done certain ways simply because Thats the way its always been done.
-Kathrin wants her students to think for themselfs for example when she is talking to the student that is in pre law.
-Kathin also goes out of her way to help her students, for example when she gives one student a second chance on writing her paper, another example is when she got an aplication for yale for one of her students.
-A lot of the school is focused on preping the girls for marrage rather then living on their own.
-Even though Kathin knows how to think for herself she has trouble making up her mind.
-Kathrine used to be engaged until pearl harbor happened.
-betty tries to get kathrine watson fired the same way that whe got the other teacher fired.
-the story that betty writes for the paper, along with many other things causes katrine to realize just how resestant most of the people in the school are to change.
-the school is only going to let kathrine come back because there are so many girls signed up for her class next year, but because they are opposed to her views they are only going to let her come back under strict conditions which places kathrine in a difficult spot because she doesnt want to conform to the rules but the girls that she loves want her to stay.
-kathrine eventually decides to not come back to welsley but instead goes to europe.

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