It's a Wonderful Life Unit Packet Gr. 9-12
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Grade Levels
9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Homeschool
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Standards
CCSSRL.9-10.1
CCSSRL.9-10.2
CCSSRL.9-10.4
CCSSRL.9-10.5
CCSSRL.9-10.7
Formats Included
- Zip
Pages
42 Documents
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Description
"It's a Wonderful Life" is a feel-good Christmas story for classroom viewing about learning to appreciate what one has in life rather than focusing on what is missing. George Bailey, the protagonist, finds himself in deep trouble and considers taking his own life. This is a wonderful film about love of family, friends and community, and is perfect for the holiday season when many people experience depression and isolation. The religious aspect of the movie is downplayed enough to be appropriate in public schools as well as in spiritual settings.
This unit contains character lists, quotation analyses and vocabulary for the story. It also includes lessons on literal vs. figurative understanding, making inferences, plot and conflict, and theme. Included are over 20 reproducibles for classroom activities, writing prompts and test questions, four different comparisons to other texts, and PowerPoint presentations for literary terms in the ExC-ELL vocabulary model. Scaffolded and differentiated; teacher determines amount of notes, amount and format of writing, which answers to share, and which poem(s) to use for comparing/contrasting. This unit also includes interdisciplinary possibilities with history studies around the Great Depression, WWII and the Christian culture of Christmas.
Kid-tested and teacher-approved for over thirteen years, and I still have students coming back to tell me they remember – and love – the work we did on this movie. Duration of unit varies; depends on what teacher wants to spend time on. This unit can easily be extended to the week after the Christmas holiday if needed. This is a black and white production, but students will adjust quite quickly to enjoy the characters and themes.
This film unit is a wonderful plug-in for the Season of Giving. Yours from Paradise Unlimited New England!
This unit contains character lists, quotation analyses and vocabulary for the story. It also includes lessons on literal vs. figurative understanding, making inferences, plot and conflict, and theme. Included are over 20 reproducibles for classroom activities, writing prompts and test questions, four different comparisons to other texts, and PowerPoint presentations for literary terms in the ExC-ELL vocabulary model. Scaffolded and differentiated; teacher determines amount of notes, amount and format of writing, which answers to share, and which poem(s) to use for comparing/contrasting. This unit also includes interdisciplinary possibilities with history studies around the Great Depression, WWII and the Christian culture of Christmas.
Kid-tested and teacher-approved for over thirteen years, and I still have students coming back to tell me they remember – and love – the work we did on this movie. Duration of unit varies; depends on what teacher wants to spend time on. This unit can easily be extended to the week after the Christmas holiday if needed. This is a black and white production, but students will adjust quite quickly to enjoy the characters and themes.
This film unit is a wonderful plug-in for the Season of Giving. Yours from Paradise Unlimited New England!
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42 Documents
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Standards
to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).
CCSSRL.9-10.1
Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
CCSSRL.9-10.2
Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.
CCSSRL.9-10.4
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language evokes a sense of time and place; how it sets a formal or informal tone).
CCSSRL.9-10.5
Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.
CCSSRL.9-10.7
Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two different artistic mediums, including what is emphasized or absent in each treatment (e.g., Auden’s “Musée des Beaux Arts” and Breughel’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus).
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