Home Alone Movie Guide Questions & ELA Activities for Middle School
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The 1990 Home Alone movie starring Macaulay Culkin is a humorous and well-written story that your middle-grade ELA students will LOVE!. This 22-page resource supports watching the classic holiday Christmas movie Home Alone. Students will engage in pre-reading statements, comprehension questions, character development, plot structure, character dialogue, inference skills, compare and contrast, a dynamic character essay, word search, and maze.
The main character in Home Alone, 8-year-old Kevin, is a great example of a dynamic character that faces his fears and learns how to appreciate his family through the course of the movie.
Items included are:
- Pre-Reading Agree & Disagree Statements (to get students talking about themes from the movie)
- Home Alone Movie Comprehension Questions and ANSWER KEY
- Characterization of Kevin graphic organizer
- A plot structure diagram to help students identify important parts of the storyline.
- Character text chat activity
- Kevins’ Be Home Alone Pros & Cons graphic organizer
- How Can with Infer How Kevin Changes Movie Clips
- Kevin’s Venn Diagram: Compare and Contrast how Kevin has changed throughout the movie
- Instagram template: What events would Kevin document from his adventures (understanding plot)
- How is Kevin a dynamic character essay prompt
- How is Kevin a dynamic character essay prompt RUBRIC
- Who Said it? Quotes from the movie
- Home Alone Word Search & ANSWER KEY
- Home Alone Maze & ANSWER KEY
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