Coda Movie Guide (2021) - Movie Questions with Extra Activities

This Oscar winning comedy-drama film is about the struggles and opportunities that Ruby Rossi goes through as a high school looking to pursue her own aspirations. Ruby is the only member in her family who isn’t deaf and often takes it upon herself to help protect and take care of her family as well as their fishing business. At school Ruby takes a choir class and her teacher, Mr. Villalobos, quickly notices Ruby’s talent in singing. He begins to work closely with Ruby and encourages her to attend a prestigious music school after she graduates. Ruby wants to further her talent in singing but struggles internally to balance all of her other responsibilities and moral obligations.

This particular movie guide is great for your students because it not only gives them questions to complete while watching the movie, but it also includes questions that will allow them to really practice their critical thinking and self-reflection skills. Your students will critically analyze topics about family dynamics, being gifted, managing responsibilities, and others.

This 2021 film is rated PG-13 and stars the following actors/actresses: Emilia Jones, Eugenio Derbez, Troy Kotsur, Marlee Matlin, and others. The running time for the film is 1 hour and 51 minutes long.

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This movie guide includes the following:

• 25 short Answer Questions – These are short questions to be answered while students watch the movie. They are basically used to keep the students’ attention and hold them accountable for the activity. These are usually completed individually but could also be completed in groups.
• 5 Critical Thinking Questions – These are questions for students to answer after having watched the movie. They are to be completed individually in about 3-4 sentences. They are designed to allow the students to practice their critical thinking skills based on various parts of the movie.
• 5 Reflection Questions – These reflection questions are to be answered individually after having watched the movie. They can be answered in about 3-4 sentences but are designed to have students relate various parts or aspects from the movie to their own lives. Students are encouraged to share their specific life experiences from their past, present, or future plans.
• Written Essay – This part is to allow students to individually write a 4-5 paragraph essay about a specific topic that was addressed in the movie. The topic and/or questions to be answered for the essay are stated in the instructions for the activity.
• Group Activity – This activity is to be completed in a small group and is designed to have students get together, do some research about a topic from the movie, and then discuss and/or present their findings to the class.

All the questions are available in a PDF format for quick and easy printing as well as in a Word format in case you would like to modify some of the questions to the specific needs of your class. A Teacher Answer Key is available for the 25 short answer questions and I have also included a document with instructions and recommendations for using this movie guide in your classes.

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