The movie It's a Wonderful Life is based on the short story "The Greatest Gift," by Philip von Doren Stern. I've made 20 close reading questions for students to respond to as they read the short story. In this google slides presentation, I'm linking the google docs of the questions, the answer key and the short story. There are 5 total slides, including images from the movie and a related quote by another author. Also embedded is a video explaining a theory that relates to the story and/or t