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Balanced literacy movie guides for Microsoft Word
Analyzing Suspense and Setting in Stranger Things
Students love learning about suspense and what better way to do that than by pairing it with a popular TV show the students already know and love? With this activity, students will be asked to answer basic plot-based questions during the viewing. The viewing guide also includes 13 critical thinking and analysis questions that can be assigned for a Socratic seminar or remote-learning discussion board posts. After viewing the episode, students will analyze the intention choices made by the writer
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Dark Side of Chocolate Comprehension Questions
Twenty multiple choice and short answer questions on the documentary 'The Dark Side of Chocolate.' The questions are sequential and are divided into Part One and Part Two (roughly first and second half of the documentary in case you want to break it up a little or discuss what they've seen.)Created for the seventh grade as an introduction to documentary film.
Grades:
6th - 9th
Iron Jawed Angels: Analyzing the Historical Accuracy
As part of our study of the Modern Period, I show my students the HBO film Iron Jawed Angels. My students often love this film and have questions about what happened in real life and what was added to the movie, since it is based on the fight for a federal amendment to the Constitution allowing women to vote. This worksheet will give students 14 statements to read detailing events in the film; they must decided whether or not that event happened in history or was part of the movie mojo, added fo
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10th - 12th
The Sixth Sense - Discussion Questions/Worksheet
If you are studying the Unreliable Narrator, or plot twists, there is NO BETTER MOVIE than The Sixth Sense. Many students are familiar with the famous line "I see dead people." So they already have a sliver of information about the movie prior to seeing it. This worksheet asks students to elaborate on themes found in the movie, search for symbols, and defend their answers with proof.
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9th - 12th
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Inception Worksheet
This film builds upon a student's comprehension level. It's main discussion points are a film's spatial and temporal relationship with the audience (how the filmmaker manipulates time and space). If you are reading a tricky storyline novel or literature piece, this film may be good to watch to help students understand they retain more than they think they do. This can also be used for ethical and moral discussions.
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9th - 12th
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Something the Lord Made (video) Analysis
The 2004 HBO video "Something the Lord Made" tells the story of Dr. Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas's collaboration to pioneer a new heart surgery to save the lives of "blue babies." This nonfiction drama stars Alan Rickman and Mos Def as an unusual partnership that begins at Vanderbilt Univ. and ends at Johns Hopkins University.
Along with the film, students may complete the analysis of the film as literature with examination of themes and conflict while watching to complete Bloom's level 1
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10th - 12th
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Some Like It Hot Worksheet
Students LOVE comedies, and Some Like It Hot delivers at exceptional display. Most teenagers these days love the movie "White Chicks" and Some Like It Hot is the film that started it all. With amazing performances by the talented men, and stunning beauty of Marilyn Monroe (which most students KNOW her image, but have not seen a film with her in it). The Dialogue in this film (Screenplay by the great Billy Wilder) is what students seem to catch. It's witty, and the humor is almost hidden. This wo
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9th - 12th
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The Hunger Games Film / Movie One Pager and Rubric
This is a GREAT way to have students show their understanding and knowledge of the film The Hunger Games.Students create a one pager that represents the characters, plot, and important themes for the movie.This is easy to have students in person in class, it's also easy to adapt and have students do it electronically on a ppt slide.
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8th - 12th
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Also included in:Â The Hunger Games Movie / Film Guide, Quiz, and One Pager w/Rubrics
Atonement by Ian McEwan - Quotes and Journal Prompts
This collection of quotes from McEwan's novel are designed to facilitate students' personal responses to a complex text.
I often use this assignment after using the film version of the novel
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9th - 12th
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Jaws Worksheet
When discussing foreshadowing in literature, a great classic like Jaws can do wonders for your lesson. Surprisingly, many students have not seen this film, even thought he musical score is one of the most famous of all times. My favorite is to show Jaws right before Spring Break, and get giggles out of students saying that they are vacationing on the beach for their trip.
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9th - 12th
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To Kill a Mockingbird Book and Movie Jailhouse Scene Comparison
This activity poses seven questions to students about the impact, differences, and similarities between the jailhouse scene in Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird and the 1962 film adaptation.Students' answers will vary, but should demonstrate higher-level thinking skills to be counted for full credit.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in:Â To Kill a Mockingbird Resource Bundle
Unit 2 - How To Look At Movies
This entire unit focuses on undoing a student's "invisible" perception of films, and helping them unravel how a film works. This unit can be used in conjunction with Unit 1 (film history) or you can begin with this unit.
Grades:
9th - 12th
Ferdinand- A literary devices film Scavenger Hunt
Students will review literary devices such as plot, inferencing, using descriptive details, figurative language, cause and effect, and other literary devices. This film scavenger hunt will keep them engaged and help them to practice, independently, the skills they have learned during literary analysis.
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5th - 12th
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Film Terminology Graphic Organizer with Scaffolding/Examples
This graphic organizer asks students to define basic terms used in film making. After students complete this, they may apply the terms to any film and analyze it as literature.
I've used it with "The King's Speech," but any Alfred Hitchcock film will work beautifully as well as "Citizen Kane" or "To Kill a Mockingbird."
See the PowerPoint in the store that goes with this graphic organizer. I spent two days in the computer lab with students researching and defining terms, and then I used th
Grades:
6th - 12th
Guardians of Ga'Hoole
From Michele Jeanmarie, take your students through a novel read, Guardians of Ga’Hoole, and learn of the many elements of characterization, plot, comparison and contrast. Students use other disciplines, such as Astronomy and Aerodynamics to expand understanding. Oreo cookies are used to show comprehension of the phases of the moon, plane models are used to understand the principles of aerodynamics and references of the Bible as a historical document are used to measure values and virtues, morali
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5th - 7th
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Characters of Greek Mythology Chart: Lightning Thief
Use this chart as an interactive Movie Guide for "The Lightning Thief". Before watching, ask students to jot down what they know about each character on the chart. Then while watching (or after) ask them to add information to the chart showing what they have learned about each character in Greek Mythology. There is a Make a Connection question at the bottom as well! Watching the movie is a great way to introduce, end or enrich a Greek Mythology unit or novel study! Enjoy!
Grades:
4th - 12th
Advance Organizer for the Movie "National Treasure"
Help you students be more alert to story details by looking for and answering questions related to plot, major and minor characters, cause/ effect, character traits, primary sources, and story resolution with this organizer.
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4th - 8th
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Movie Critic Activity for The Outsiders
Use this graphic organizer for note-taking and a compare/ contrast discussion of the movie version vs. the novel version of The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. Enjoy!
Grades:
6th - 9th
Story to Movie Compare/Contrast Worksheet
A simple compare and contrast worksheet for post-reading. Compare the story to the film adaptation, as well as write the similarities between the two.
Grades:
5th - 10th
Critical Visual Literacy-Video Clip Analysis Lesson Sample and Worksheet
*Do you want to find an easy way to support literary texts with video clips but feel that just watching a video clip in class is a waste of educational time?
*Do you believe that students need to learn to critically read all forms of texts, especially visual texts, in order to have a deeper understanding of the way information is presented?
Then you're my kind of teacher. =)
Enclosed is a sample lesson with a collaborative activity that pushes basic video watching into a hands-on informative
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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