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Adult education close reading movie guides
Citizen Kane - Study Guide
This product is a Study Guide for Citizen Kane directed by Orsen Wells. The guide has sections and activities on:
• Background to the film and its director: Orson Welles. Objective: Students discuss and evaluate the ways in which the set work has been read, received and valued in historical and other contexts.
• A synopsis of the film. Objective: Students explore the ideas expressed in the text through analysing its construction, content and language. They examine how particular features of the
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Quotation Response for "Into the Wild" Film (2007): Double-Entry Journal
"Into the Wild" (2007) is a biographical survival film based on Jon Krakauer’s book of the same name. Christopher McCandless, the film’s star, rejects conformity and materialism in order to discover life without a safety net. As a recent college graduate, he travels across North America into the Alaskan wilderness to live a more “authentic” life. This film is rich in quotations. The Double-Entry Journal strategy enables students to record their responses to text as they read and view. Students
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Dead Poets Society - Movie Guide - 30 Quick Recall Questions
Welcome to the "Dead Poets Society" Movie Guide Worksheet! This worksheet is designed to test your class' quick recall and comprehension after watching the captivating film "Dead Poets Society," directed by Peter Weir. In this worksheet, you'll find 30 quick recall questions covering key plot points, character details, and thematic elements explored in the movie. From memorable quotes to pivotal moments, these questions will challenge your class's memory and understanding of the film's rich narr
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Shakespeare's "The Tempest" (Taymor 2010): Film Guide - DISTANCE LEARNING
Director Julie Taymor gives us William Shakespeare's, The Tempest. Taymor stays true to the original text and to the narrative outline, except she does a gender swap: Helen Mirren stars in the lead role. Students find the film beautiful, artistic and focused. It's a wonderful adaptation of what many consider to be Shakespeare's final play.The play is set on an island where Prospero plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful position in Milan. Through magic, he creates a storm (a temp
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10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
The Glass Castle Movie 100 Question Multiple Choice Test + Key
Have you ever wanted to use valuable class time for your students to watch a movie, only toA. have students goof off and miss the details of the movieB. have your administration prefer that you justify your time with an assessmentC. wish you could use up an additional class period having students take a testD. all of the aboveNo matter which letter you selected as your answer, this test is for you. There are 100 multiple choice questions each with four answer choices on this test. Every question
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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A Time to Kill - Character Chart w/ Scaffolding
This graphic organizer helps students make sense of the many characters in Grisham's novel.
It is uploaded as a Word document so you may edit the scaffolding for differentiation or have students complete an electronic copy allowing the boxes to expand as students type their responses. All characters are not listed, but additional rows are included so students may add as they read.
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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Dystopian Science Fiction Unit: Plato's Cave/Fahrenheit 451/The Matrix/more!
Thirty days of lessons!This is the first unit of my Science Fiction Literature class, and it has proven to be very popular with my students! The schedule is posted below. All of these resources come in Google Doc, PDF, and DOCX formats, and all of them have answer keys.Here is how it works:Daily Warmups: These are not included in the unit because there are plenty of Fahrenheit 451 anticipation guides online for FREE. I always jus take one of statements from an anticipation guide and have my stud
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Creative Writing Workshops - Mythic Structures
This series of lessons has the students compare the sequence of events outlined by Propp and by Campbell for a hero's journey. It is meant to consolidate the idea of sequencing narratives, and of translating the structures in myth into more modern stories using film as part of a process of recognition.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Not Grade Specific
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Also included in: Work on Structure at the Macro and Micro Levels
John Grisham Webquest - A Time to Kill Introduction
Before beginning "A Time to Kill," students research background information about the novel's author, John Grisham.
I used it in a Contemporary Lit class for a fiction unit.
It is uploaded as a Word document so you may scaffold for struggling learners or so your students may type their responses allowing the boxes to expand with their answers.
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10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Hamlet Summary & Reaction Chart
This has a summary of each act that reminds students what happens at the beginning and ending of the act. Next to each act is a box where students can write their reactions after reading or watching the scene. Specifically students will be asked to chart their reactions through the following question for each act:
What surprised, intrigued, or disturbed you about each of these acts?
This can be used with the script or with a movie version of Hamlet. The summaries are helpful during a movie
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Movie guide of "Under the Same Moon"
Useful guide to introduce or review the past in Spanish. You can use it, also, for cultural topics as a inmigration, for example.
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
The Great Gatsby Movie Guide
Flexibility! This movie guide offers the teacher a variety of options: If you have two screens, you may make this paperless and simply pause the film during the appropriate time stamps; if you have a substitute, you may print up to 9 slides per page; if you would like the students to have space to write directly on the page, you may print 3 slides per page. Google Slides link provided.The presentation includes some background on the film to engage students, and follows with questions students
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10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: The Great Gatsby Digital Lesson: Interactive Bundle
A Closer Look at Chaplin's Classic Film, "Modern Times"
The following two-page handout guides students easily and thoughtfully toward a close reading of this important film. Chaplin acts, directs, and composes music for this film and the results are what many consider to be one of the finest films ever made. After Chaplin visited the automaker Ford's facilities in Dearborn, Michigan, he had much to say about working in factories and the assembly lines that were populating them. He worried about the loss of humanity in the Age of the Machine. But
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
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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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The Secret Life of Bees Theme Open Response Assignment w/ Rubric to Score
Formative writing assessment that asks readers to choose from a list of themes in The Secret Life of Bees and analyze and comment on it.
A great way to see how deeply a student is comprehending the powerful text and its themes.
Can be given as soon as chapter 5, but also as late as at the end of the novel as a summative assessment.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Glass Castle Book vs. Movie Analysis Questions
Please enjoy these twenty questions that are perfect for students to answer independently or in a group discussion session about the differences between the movie and the book. Please check out my extensive list of other resources on The Glass Castle. <<<<< <<<<< <<<<< I LOVE FEEDBACK. IF YOU FIND VALUE IN THIS RESOURCE, PLEASE LEAVE ME A POSITIVE RATING AND REVIEW. THANK YOU FOR YOUR DOWNLOAD FROM A NOVEL IDEA. >>>>> >>>>&
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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