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Martin Luther King Day informational text movie guides
Princess Bride Film Study, Movie Guide + Activities, PDF & Google Drive, CCSS
William Goldman’s The Princess Bride is the perfect fairy tale to use with secondary students, but it’s not enough to just hit “play” on the DVD. Instead, add a layer of rigor to your students’ study of The Princess Bride with this packet of print-and-teach materials that will take four days to complete while entertaining and challenging your teens.Materials in this 18-page film study include (PDF + Google Drive versions of student handouts):• A suggested lesson procedure page with calendar (1 p
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8th - 11th
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Middle School ELA End of the Year Activities ~ Includes Watching a Movie!
This packet is perfect for the end of the year! It will take about five days to complete, and everything is ready for you to print and go! This packet is all about rats! After doing some research on mice and rats, students will read an informational article, a poem, and two fables about these rodents. Then, they will get to watch the movie The Tale of Despereaux. A movie watching note-taking guide is included as well as a 30 question multiple choice test on the movie. You can begin this un
Grades:
5th - 8th
The Social Dilemma Active Viewing Guide - Netflix - Social Media Literacy
Are your students naive about social media algorithms? This 22-page active viewing guide is designed to help them process the Netflix film "The Social Dilemma." Students are required to listen and watch actively, consider their own behavior, analyze the film maker's choices, and write about rhetorical impact. A teacher guide is provided, and all materials are provided in both PDF and Google Slides.This viewing guide is now embedded in a 15-lesson media literacy unit, Detect & Dismiss: How to
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9th - 12th
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Ultimate Ted Talk Bundle
I've put together a bundle of 24 of my most popular Ted Talk guide sheets!This bundle includes:Teacher notes about each talkGuide questions for each talk. Questions include basic recall as well as an extension of the newly acquired information. Link and QR code to the talk right on each worksheetAnswer sheetThis is a bundle of the following four products:Hilarious Ted Talks: Six super-funny Ted Talks about such things as procrastination, confidence, perception, and failure.Six Quick Ted Talks to
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9th - 12th
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Zootopia Movie Guide & Stereotypes Discussion
Zootopia is not only a great movie, but also has important ideas about stereotyping and how we treat each other in a diverse society. Thus, it's a perfect film to show students as a springboard to deeper content and thinking. So, I created this product to use in the middle school classroom, based on the film.
This product is broken up into three parts:
Part 1-Movie guide: students answer questions as they watch the movie, about the plot of the film.
Part 2-Critical thinking: Students answer que
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6th - 9th
Selma - Movie Guide
This seven page download includes 45 thought provoking questions, which are intended to help your students stay focused as they view the 2014 film "Selma," starring David Oyelowo. This is a great fit for a unit on the Civil Rights, or the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. An answer key was added 7/24/2015.
Grades:
7th - 12th
Our Friend, Martin Movie Guide | MLK | Questions | Google Slide (G - 1999)
This Our Friend, Martin Movie Guide | Questions | Worksheet (G - 1999) challenges students to analyze the decisions made by Martin, Miles, and Randy as they teleport through Martin Luther King Jr.'s life. Explore how MLK responds to hate and prejudice and how he teaches Miles that violence is not the answer and to appreciate the life he has. Ask students to consider how TV played a part in MLK's civil rights movement, especially in Birmingham, Alabama. Finally encourage students to describe what
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3rd - 6th
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Selma (2014): Complete Movie Guide
I went to the movies to watch Selma when it first came out. Then, my school received free tickets to take two groups of students to watch the film. After the 3rd time watching the film, I decided to write down some questions and to prepare a viewing guide for this film (it comes out on DVD and video in May). This is the movie guide that I wish my students would have had while watching the film - it would have made this powerful film into a complete lesson for them. This 20-question video guide w
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7th - 11th
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The African Americans Many Rivers to Cross Worksheets for ENTIRE SERIES Bundle
Six sets of fill-in worksheets, one for each episode. All questions have optional time stamps; all worksheets come with an optional student answer sheet to streamline grading and allow multiple uses of your printouts. Full context and fast-grade answer keys included!The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross, is an award-winning six-part documentary series by noted historian Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Covering from about the year 1500 through to the new millennium, the series addresses in a detaile
Grades:
9th - 12th
Selma Lord Selma Video Viewing Guide - Black History Month Activity
This viewing guide can be used while students watch the film "Selma Lord Selma" about the freedom marches in Selma, Alabama during the Civil Rights Movement. It includes a characterization graphic organizer for students to record important information about the main characters in the film. Also included are several higher-order thinking questions for students to answer during and/or after the film viewing.In addition to the viewing guide, there is also a Venn Diagram Activity that requires stude
Grades:
6th - 9th
Blackfish Unit-Common Core Aligned!
This is a unit build around the documentary film Blackfish. It includes two study guides for the film, printer-friendly versions of articles related to the topic (both for and against Sea World), handouts on annotating text and writing an argument essay, a vocabulary activity, a jigsaw activity with rubric, a performance task written in SBAC style (argument essay), an extra credit assignment, an exemplar argument essay, and a worksheet on writing persuasive statements. This is EVERYTHING you wou
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7th - 10th
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Our Friend Martin Movie Guide + Extension Questions
This 14 page movie guide with handouts accompanies the animated film "Our Friend, Martin (1999)(2004)". ★★ Check out the full preview! ★★This guide may also work well as a sub plan for your substitute teacher. PART 1 – Comprehension questions. I have made three sets of questions for differentiation or depending on how much of a challenge you want to give the students. Answer keys included • 30 questions in chronological order.• 20 questions in chronological order (10 questions removed from the
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3rd - 7th
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Loving Vincent Viewing Guide (Vincent van Gogh Animated Film)
Loving Vincent is a biographical film about the last days of Vincent van Gogh's life animated in the style of van Gogh's paintings. The film is a creates discussion and mystery around the circumstances of his death and allows the integration of nonfiction texts into the lesson.
This viewing guide provide three questions that analyzes The Starry Night followed by ten questions to be answered during the film. After viewing the film, three deeper questions ask students to analyze the style and con
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9th - 12th
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Selma - Movie Guide
Selma Movie Guide - 40 Question worksheet designed to help students stay engaged while watching the movie. This is a Microsoft word file. Selma is a 2014 American historical drama film directed by Ava DuVernay and written by Paul Webb. It is based on the 1965 Selma to Montgomery voting rights marches led by James Bevel,[3][4] Hosea Williams, Martin Luther King, Jr., and John Lewis. The film stars actors David Oyelowo as King, Tom Wilkinson as President Lyndon B. Johnson, Tim Roth as George Wall
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Big Hero 6 No-Prep Literary Analysis
Baymax fever has taken over my house and my classroom!
This packet was designed for 4-8 grade to provide teachers with no prep, highly engaging literacy activities for the classroom. These are great to use to break up the stress of state/standardized testing or for those crazy days at the end of the school year. These even work great as activities for sub plans!
Packet includes:
- Student cover sheet
- Viewing guide with literacy concepts and terms
- Character analysis
- Character traits
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4th - 8th
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Mankind: The Story of All of Us Episode 1: Inventors - DIGITAL
Mankind: The Story of All of Us Episode 1: Inventors39 Question worksheet. (PDF, Microsoft Word, and Google Doc included)Do you want to show the History Channel's amazing new video series, MANKIND: THE STORY OF ALL OF US, EPISODE 1: INVENTORS, but are afraid your students will become bored or stray off-task? Fear no more! This worksheet will keep students engaged, on-task, and increase their comprehension of the series. While watching the video, students will complete a series of fill-in-the-bla
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5th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in: Mankind: The Story of All of Us | Bundle of Episodes 1-12
Dead Poet's Society and Transcendentalism
This is a film guide to use as a culmination of study on the American Transcendentalists. Students need to have studied "Self-Reliance" and "Nature" by Emerson and "Civil Disobedience" by Thoreau (or excerpts of these pieces from a textbook) and preferably bits of Walden to complete the tasks required.
The student characters in the film all try, to differing degrees, to follow the ideals of non-conformity, self-reliance, non-violent protest, reverence for nature and a respect for personal exper
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10th - 12th
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CCSS:
Rhetorical Analysis Questions for ANY Documentary Print and Digital
**UPDATE: Now includes DIGITAL Version for Google Drive!**This film guide is designed to suit ANY short or long form documentary. These 3 pages of rigorous questions are laid out in an engaging way and focus on rhetorical analysis tasks. Terms included in the questions are subject; mood and tone; appeals to emotion, credibility and logic; occasion and audience; purpose and evidence; and summary. Whether you need a quick sub plan, an engaging, Netflix-based homework assignment, practice with visu
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9th - 12th
CCSS:
Martin Luther King Activities Biography Viewing Questions
There are two no prep activities in this pack to introduce your middle or high school students to Martin Luther King, Jr. or to supplement your unit on African American studies or Black History Month. They can be used consecutively or independently and with any documentary you have available for MLK. Student Experience: Students will get to know Martin Luther King, Jr. in this exercise first by answering open-ended, broad questions about MLK during viewing. This type of questions allow studen
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8th - 12th
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Also included in: American Literature Curriculum, Year-Long, BUNDLE, English Lesson Plans
Washington State History SUPPLEMENTAL Resources for 7th Grade WA PNW
The resources included in this bundle are to supplement your awesome teaching. There are Informational Readings, Questions, Mossback Video Guides, Art Projects, Bingo Games, Research Activities, Writing Prompts and more.I have included a list of everything currently in the bundle. To start the year off right:Emergency Sub PlansGet to Know You First Week Activities5 Regions Google Slide ShowRain Metaphor and Simile WorksheetWashington State Themed Grammar Worksheet Pack Assessments:Geography (Fu
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6th - 8th
WALL-E Dystopia PBL Project
Each semester, my students complete dystopia-themed book clubs. I use this group project as the culminating assessment for this unit.
Together, we watch WALL-E. Then, students are tasked with creating a PBL that showcases the effects of one of the concepts criticized in the film (e.g. technology, obesity, laziness, large corporations, buying in bulk, recycling, environmentalism, human interaction, etc.)
For the final product used to display their findings, students will create an infographic u
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9th - 12th
End-of-Year English Activities BUNDLE | Netflix | Titanic | Media Literacy
Is testing over? Do you have a gap to fill? Use this set of stand-alone activities and lesson plans to engage students and keep the classroom meaningful. Handle the last two weeks school with a twelve-lesson unit on fake news, a two-day activity on Titanic survivor Violet Jessop, and a two-day set of exercises on the Netflix documentary "Minimalism."All three resources are provided in PDF format and editable Google Slides.
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8th - 10th
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The Butler - Movie Guide
The Butler is a film based on the life of Eugene Allen, who worked as a waiter and butler in the White House for 34 years. He started working in the White House in 1952 and retired in 1986 (as the head butler). This discussion guide is made up of 50 questions and is intended to help make viewing the film more meaningful for your students.
Grades:
7th - 12th
BLM - "Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution"
In this activity, students will view the PBS Independent Lens’ documentary “Black Panthers: Vanguard of a Revolution” (includes links to stream the film online). When students have successfully completed the assignment, they should have a solid understanding of the Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How of the Black Panther movement.About the Film: “In the turbulent 1960s, change was coming to America and the fault lines could no longer be ignored — cities were burning, Vietnam was exploding, and
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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