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Middle school short stories lesson videos
Plot Diagram with Pixar's Digital Short
This is a video that uses Pixar's Digital short, "Lifted," to teach plot diagram. Within the 8 minute video, you'll see the entire Disney cartoon played out while a plot diagram is carefully being built around the action of the plot. Students can see the action of the story and where it fits in precisely on the plot diagram. See the sample for specific format.
At the end of the video, there is a list of student tips for how to effectively organize a short story on a plot diagram.
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5th - 12th
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Disney Pixar-- Topic vs. Theme (Dug's Special Mission)
For this activity, students will be watching a Disney Pixar short film in order to apply their knowledge of topic vs. theme. This is such a fun way to get students engaged and apply their knowledge to a visual text. Great way to assess introductory theme vs. topic skills.Students will need to take notes and track topics during the mini-movie, and then eventually turn it into a thematic statement. They will also need to support their theme with specific evidence from the mini-movie. The link to t
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5th - 9th
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Plot Diagram with Pixar's Partysaurus Rex
This is a video that uses Pixar's Digital short, "Partysaurus Rex," to teach plot diagram. Within the 7:30 minute video, you'll see the entire Disney cartoon played out while a plot diagram is carefully being built around the action of the plot. Students can see the action of the story and where it fits in precisely on the plot diagram. See the sample for specific format.
At the beginning of the video, there is a list of student tips for how to effectively organize a short story on a plot diag
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5th - 10th
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Teach Language Arts with Film Clips!
Fun and engaging for students to understand and apply Language Arts concepts! This short film, The Present, is an excellent resource to use to teach elements of fiction. This lesson is set up to have students recognize and describe character development, leading towards an understanding of the theme.If you enjoy this resource, please check out another Teach Language Arts with Film Clips (Suspense and Foreshadowing) listing! The resource includes the short film and 3 student worksheet pages. If y
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5th - 9th
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Faux Movie Trailer: The Tell-Tale Heart Trial (lesson hook)
Is the narrator of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" sane/guilty or insane/not guilty of murder? Teachers and students both *love* the experience of debating this question, which rests on the legal definition of insanity and a close and careful reading of a beautifully complex and chilling short story.
Here's a 1-min video that frames this inquiry in the most dramatic way possible: a trailer for a horror movie in which students (the audience) must determine the fate of the narrator.
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7th - 10th
DISTANCE LEARNING Plot Diagram with Pixar Shorts
Watch these pixar shorts and have students create a plot diagram for the videos. Once they are finished there is an extension activity to create their own comic using Storyboard.
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4th - 12th
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Halloween Informational Text Reading Passage and Activities
This mini lesson is a complete digital lesson with no-prep activities using Google Slides. The lesson activities include video instruction, informational text article, close reading, comprehension, and writing a summarizing paragraph. The lesson has accommodations built right into the activities and the videos will engage reluctant readers. This lesson has 3 videos and 3 reading passages.This Micro-learning Deck includes:lesson engager, objectives, and preview of lesson activities short video le
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4th - 6th
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Also included in:Â Fall Holidays Informational Text Reading Passage and Activities Bundle
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The Super Education & Entertaiment Videos Bundle
The Super Education & Entertaiment Videos Bundle v.2 for children aims to provide a captivating blend of education and entertainment, offering a diverse range of content that is both informative and engaging. These videos cover various educational topics, from science and math to general education, providing valuable knowledge while ensuring that children have fun during the learning process. By leveraging these educational videos, children can gain essential skills and knowledge, setting th
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen by O.Henry VIDEO
This is a two part video of the classic American short story by O. Henry. Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen. Links to youtube.
Part I is 8.20 Minutes
Part II is 6.09 Minutes
A nice way to introduce ELLs to the American holiday. Even better if you read the short story before viewing the movie!
This product is also sold in a bundle:
O. Henry Bundle for ELLs
Links below provide a viewing/reading response worksheet to the story etc.
Two Thanksgiving Day Ge
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7th - 12th
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Also included in:Â O.HENRY BUNDLE
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Thanksgiving Lesson 3: Traditions and Stories
In this podcast-style lesson, students learn more about Thanksgiving through some personal narratives about the holiday.
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2nd - 7th
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The Wise Old Woman Story Time! Read Aloud Learn English
Listen along!
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Merry Christmas, Amedlia Bedelia Read Aloud Story ESL ENGLISH American English
Listen along as Amelia Bedelia prepares for the Christmas party!
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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What's the Story? A film making studio Pt. 8 - PUPPETRY & FILM
This lesson shares a great method of adapting part of your story into a shadow puppet show. We also address an important issue and how you too can share your thoughts around things that matter to you. We review all the steps of the process in a new story that I share! and we show you how to make environmental vignettes for your shadow puppet theater.
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5th - 9th
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What's the Story? A film making studio Pt. 7 - SHADOW PUPPETRY
We continue to add cool ways to enhance your film or story. In this tutorial we go into two subjects that are very dear to me, RE-CYCLED ART & SHADOW PUPPETRY! I teach you how to make a shadow puppet theater and puppets with house hold garbage. Its an exciting at home craft! The more we realize the potential of our waste the less we throw away! Join the movement join the fun!
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5th - 9th
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Pretérito Perfecto para niños
This resource will help you explain the Pretérito Perfecto to kids, in a fun way, while watching a Christmas tale. The content has some leading-up questions and a diagram to help students on retelling of a story. This resource has:Comprehensive questions.A diagram to explain in short and few sentences the story.A Visual Grammar Reference.Questions with phrases the student must complete with personal information about recent experiences and events. Note: the resource is meant for students who hav
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1st - 12th
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"To Build A Fire" by Jack London - Animation Alongside Reading
If you are looking for a way to teach "To Build a Fire" by Jack London, in a shorter amount of time, and in an easier way to understand, use this! It incorporates a short video animation of the story, alongside a worksheet with time stamps to stop and read the actual short story.This will help the student better understand the story without taking multiple class periods and hours analyzing the short story.-Pairs well with any survival novel or article.
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6th - 9th
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What's the Story? A film making studio Pt. 2- EMPATHY & EMOJI'S
Welcome to the first tutorial of the studio! We start by exploring the interesting behavior of our emotional lives. Understanding Empathy at its core, allows us to create in a deeper and more meaningful way. Empathy has many different functions in our daily lives. It helps our sharpen intuitions, and expands our imaginations. EMPATHY AND EMOJI'S is a workshop about understanding how we interpret our feelings, compared to the feelings of others. We activate this instinct and then use it in
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5th - 9th
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What's the Story? A film making studio Pt. 3 - STORY & CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT
Every good story has to start somewhere. In this tutorial we explore inspiration and how to recognize it and use it to build an idea. We workshop a WEB DIAGRAM, one form of thought mapping. The practices in this lesson help us to add more information and description to an idea, story, character, and subject of study. Thought Mapping is a fundamental tool in organizing subject matter of any topic, when we use it, we activate our imaginations in an exciting and fun way! Stay In touch with the
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5th - 9th
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What's the Story? A film making studio Pt. 10 - WRAP PARTY!
Thats a WRAP!!!! You did it! Now it's time to share our films and practice our post production reflections. This tutorial shares some great techniques for critique, and how to explore and share our discoveries around our projects. We ask each other thoughtful questions about our experiences and we get to see a bunch of great film projects! Thanks for all your hard work!
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5th - 9th
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What's the Story? A film making studio Pt. 6 - LIGHTING AND SPECIAL FX
Lighting is a great way to change the mood of your film. This lesson shares a way for you to add any color of lighting you want! This tutorial is packed with fun craft projects that add to the whimsical effects of your storytelling. These analog FX can be achieved when we realize the abundant building material that is all around us TRASH!!! Working with packaging and house hold goods, we learn how to build new skills and add magic to our art. Our world is full of free material. LOVE YOUR G
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5th - 9th
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What's the Story? A film making studio Pt. 5 - SCENE AND SHOT SEQUENCING
Scene and shot sequencing is an important step in the production of a film. Organizing your process in a way that keeps things in order chronologically is a great way to be efficient and let you play around with the fun stuff instead of trying to understand 'what' goes 'where'. Learning the benefit of these organizational techniques will be helpful in so many different ways. Keep in touch with news and new projects at CCACE! and for all things art at Skull Island!
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5th - 9th
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What's the Story? A film making studio Pt. 4 - STORY BOARDING
Now that we are building up a collection of characters and information, it's time to write a story! This tutorial features a writing workshop in the first half. We use the story from the creative writing project to make a story board for a short film! We cover a lot in this video so get ready! AND if you want to know more about the projects in the videos I share just hop on over to CCACE and meet some of our collaborators!
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5th - 9th
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What's the Story? A film making studio Pt. 9 - EDITING BASIC'S
We have completed filming and are now about to begin the editing process. This can seem like an overwhelming task, but we are now going to see the benefit of the steps of production. Editing is easy! This lesson is a quick 'how to' for a few different editing programs, one is right on your phone! Once this step is completed, you will be officially a film maker!!! Cool!
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5th - 9th
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Flash Fiction Tutorial
Students and teachers love flash fiction. It's quick to read, and challenging and fun to write. Flash fiction writers learn to make many decisions thanks to the constraints of writing a story that is only one page long. For these reasons and more, flash fiction is a perfect alternative (or complement) to traditional short story or narrative writing. This video tutorial includes a fantastic flash fiction story along with great tips for writing AND revising original flash fiction. This can be a qu
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8th - 12th
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