Terminator 2 clip.

the clip itself I analyzed in several terms: it was primarily response theory/rhetorical analysis, with some narrative, feminist, post-colonial, post-structural, and postmodern analysis.

In terms of how I would have students approach this:

Technology --- in my annotations I touched on Prometheus, and this can be considered the first technology parable we have on record.  The lesson we get from this story is that technology is something to be wary of.  This idea continues all the way up til the 20th century, which we can see VERY strongly in Frankenstein --- the action of invention and creating technology is quite literally playing god, something which can burn us badly.  In the 20th century to present, this idea has flipped over.  No longer are we as a culture wary of new things and seeking to understand them before using them, we now see all technology as the future, a solution to all of our problems.  The Terminator deconstructs this idea, making technology not only something to be wary of, but something which will kill us.  So I would use this clip as part of a lesson plan examining the use of technology and our views of it in narratives.

Action/Violence --- Again, I touched on it briefly in my annotation, but this film was created on the tail-end of a decade-long series of films showcasing big muscles and big guns.  They made the careers of people such as Schwarzenegger, Stallone, Jean-Claude Van Damme, or Steven Seagal.  In almost all of these movies, there would be giant sequences of nothing but gunplay, with entire cities being destroyed in a hail of fire.  The Terminator again deconstructs this by bringing our gun-use into a very real and chaotic form, showing the repercussions of relying on violence.

I would also love to spend a lot of time on gender/ethnic stereotyping, using this film clip as a sort of illustration of both of these ideas on their heads.  Dyson the good man, compared to a lot of other films, tv shows, and novels which showcase minorities as being thugs or worse.  Sarah the machine, an active agent seeking to change the world, contrasted with the passive, purely maternal figures in many other films and television shows which place the agents of action in masculine hands.