Joyeux Noël ~ Merry Christmas ~ Movie Guide + Word Search + Overhead

"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."

Sun Tzu (Chinese general and philosopher ~ died 496 BC)

The Christmas of 1914 - only months after World War I had started - brought an unexpected and quite welcome event - an unofficial truce.

This true event is the basis for the film Joyeux Noël with Benno Fürmann.

You get:

1. A 5-page introductory overhead in English with background information

2. A Feature * Film sheet with 20 follow-along questions in English all on one page

3. An answer key

4. A follow-up word search of pertinent words

5. An answer key for the word search

6. An extension activity using the word search.

Having students select from multiple choice answers allows

more time for their eyes to stay on the film and not spend

it looking down writing out answers and, thus,

not miss important moments in the film.

.. Note: The overhead is the same as in my

* The Great War Centennial ~ The Christmas Truce

an excellent documentary viewable online. ..

All items are classroom-ready for you to use. (10 pages)

.. Want to create your own custom bundle of movie guides 

for your favorite classroom movies ? Here's how .. 

Movie Bundle

* Other ready-to-use resources for World War I *

* In Flanders Fields ~ Au Champ d'honneur ~ Veterans Day ~ Remembrance Day

* Feature * Film ~ Influenza 1918

* Feature * Film ~ War Horse

* Feature * Film ~ Flyboys

* Feature * Film ~ The Lost Battalion

.. Giving students at-home movie options with distance learning or for extra credit ?

Here's a nice review form so they stay focused & document their learning for you. ..

* Movies ~ Generic Review Form

* SPECIAL NOTE 1 *

The Navajo Code Talkers that everyone knows about in World War II were

preceded by the Choctaw Code Talkers used in World War I.

Here are some links for further information ~

* Oklahoma History Center Choctaw Code Talkers

* Tobias Frazier Choctaw Code Talker

"In October 1918, the American Forces were trying to break the strong defensive line of the Germans with no success. Every time they prepared to go "over the top" to assault the line, the Germans were prepared for them. It was apparent the enemy had tapped and decoded the American communications lines. The Germans were not able to decode the American messages given in Choctaw and the result is a glorious part of history.

The phrase "Code Talker" did not exist during World War I, and Tobias Frazier was not known to refer to himself as one. The phrase was later coined during or after World War II."

* World War I's Native American Code Talkers

* SPECIAL NOTE 2 *

Few people know about The Hello Girls ~ women recruited in WW I to be switchboard operators in Europe to fully utilize the new technology of the telephone at the front lines for speedy communication.

The book ~

* The Hello Girls: America's First Women Soldiers by Elizabeth Cobb

and an interesting video presentation by the author ~

* The Hello Girls

* SPECIAL NOTE 3 *

Here is an 8-minute summary of this event with a nice map of how Europe was divided up at the time ~

'The Christmas Truce 1914'

* SPECIAL NOTE 4 *

Almost forgotten by history, in World War I thousands of Chinese volunteered to help the European war effort as laborers. Many died in France, some from the Spanish flu in 1918, and are buried in the Chinese Cemetery of Nolette à Noyelles-sur-Mer near Le Havre. Some are also in Folkestone, England on the English Channel.

* England: The Cemetery in Folkestone *

* France: The Chinese Cemetery *

* The Chinese Cemetery in France *

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If you're looking for more ready-to-use resources, you may be interested in some other items in my store:

FOR GERMAN CLASS

For a complete list of more time-saving German resources, please click HERE.

* Final * Exam For German 1 .. Both written and oral parts ..

* Toi toi toi * And Other Customs In Germany

* Das Perfekt * Pac ~ Activities For German Class

* Feature * Film ~ Woman In Gold

* The Color * Game For German Class

* Telling Time * Pac For German Class

* Food * Customs And Dining In Germany

* The Autobahn And Driving In Germany

* The Post * Pac For German Class

FOR FRENCH CLASS

For a complete list of more time-saving French resources, please click HERE.

* Final * Exam For French 1 .. Both written and oral parts ..

* Fun End-Of-Year Awards For French Class

* Julia Child * Fabled French Chef

* November 1st * Tombstone Project For French

* Household Chores * Activities For French

* Wedding * Customs In France

* Nuage de Mots ~ Word Cloud Activity * Pac For French

* Practice * Pac ~ savoir et connaître

* Coco Chanel * Pac

Other Ready-to-Use Resources

* Flashback * Pac ~ Grammar Review .. Review of grammar basics ..

* The Traveler's * Ten Commandments For FL Students .. It's free. ..

* Alphabet Games * Pac

* Valentine's Day ♥ Trivia Game

* Eponym Activity .. Works well as a sub plan, too ..

* Letter of Appreciation to Parents .. It's free. ..

* Permission To Watch Movie Form .. It's free. ..

FOR HISTORY CLASS

The Era of World War I

* The Great War Centennial ~ The Christmas Truce

* In Flanders Fields ~ Au Champ d'honneur ~ Veterans Day ~ Remembrance Day

* 26 Unfamous People of World War I Who Became Famous

.. Among them Charles DeGaulle, Franz Marc, Agatha Christie - creator of Hercule Poirot, Captain von Trapp, Ray Kroc (McDonald's), Walt Disney, Conrad Hilton ..

* The Great War Centennial ~ Veterans Day November 11th .. It's free ..

* Feature * Film ~ The 39 Steps

* Feature * Film ~ Sergeant York

* Feature * Film ~ All Quiet On The Western Front

* Feature * Film ~ Joyeux Noël Merry Christmas

* Feature * Film ~ The Lost Battalion

* Feature * Film ~ Influenza 1918

* Feature * Film ~ War Horse

* Feature * Film ~ Flyboys

* The Roosevelts ~ Episode 1 ~ Get Action

* The Roosevelts ~ Episode 2 ~ In The Arena

The Era of World War II

* Feature * Film ~ The Imitation Game ~ Enigma

* Feature * Film ~ The King's Speech

.. Wondering about the Royal Family's German connection ?

.. It's explained in the accompanying overhead. ..

* Feature * Film ~ The Candy Bomber

* Feature * Film ~ The Sound of Music

* Feature * Film ~ Swing Kids .. Even dancing was dangerous under The Third Reich. ..

* Feature * Film ~ Seven Years In Tibet

* Feature * Film ~ The Zookeeper's Wife

* Feature * Film ~ Patton

* Feature * Film ~ La Vita è bella ~ Life Is Beautiful

* Feature * Film ~ Race

* Feature * Film ~ Jesse Owens - American Experience

* Feature * Film ~ Die weiße Rose ~ The White Rose

* Feature * Film ~ Valkyrie

* Feature * Film ~ Rosenstraße Rosenstrasse

.. The only successful public resistance attempt under The Third Reich. ..

* Feature * Film ~ Nordwand (North Face) .. Could these German mountain climbers prove German superiority in the 1930s by being the first to climb The North Face ? You'll be on the edge of your seat till the very end ! Based on a true story. ..

* Feature * Film ~ Churchill

* Die Fälscher ~ The Counterfeiters

* Feature * Film ~ Darkest Hour

* Feature * Film ~ The Monuments Men

* Feature * Film ~ The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

* Feature * Film ~ Truman

* Feature * Film ~ The Diary of Anne Frank ~ Anne Frank Remembered

* Feature * Film ~ Joe and Max ~ Louis vs. Schmeling .. The world was on the brink of war when American

Joe Louis met German Max Schmeling in the boxing ring in 1938. But would that affect their match ? ..

* Feature * Film ~ The Book Thief

* Feature * Film ~ The Ritchie Boys

* Feature * Film ~ Miracle of the White Stallions

* The Secret Of Tuxedo Park ~ American Experience

* The Von Trapp Family ~ A Life Of Music .. Their story from one daughter's perspective ..

* The Boys Of '36 ~ The U.S. Rowing Team at the Berlin Olympics

.. Against all odds these Depression-era boys pull off a stunning

come-from-behind victory at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games ..

The Post-War Era

* Feature * Film ~ Hidden Figures

* Feature * Film ~ The Berlin Wall ~ Modern Marvels

* Feature * Film ~ Night Crossing .. A daring escape from behind The Iron Curtain ..

* Feature * Film ~ Woman In Gold

* Rick Steves ~ Berlin, Germany

* Feature * Film ~ Bridge of Spies

* Feature * Film ~ The Rise and Fall of the Wall

* Feature * Film ~ Thirteen Days

* Feature * Film ~ Operation Finale

* Berlin ~ Post-War Timeline .. That iconic symbol of The Cold War - grim-faced

Berliners woke up to it in 1961 - ecstatic Berliners experienced its fall in 1989 ..

* Feature * Film ~ Goodbye Lenin .. Not everyone was rejoicing at the Fall of the Wall ..

* Feature * Film ~ Das schreckliche Mädchen ~ The Nasty Girl .. A high school girl gets a little too curious about her town's WW II past ~ based on a true story ..

* Searching For Bobby Fischer

.. A German-American chess prodigy who put chess on the map for American children during The Cold War ..

General History

* Le Marquis de Lafayette * Pac

* Feature * Film ~ The Butler

* Feature * Film ~ The 33

* Rick Steves ~ Luther and The Reformation

* Feature * Film ~ The Man In The Iron Mask

* Feature * Film ~ Selma

* Feature * Film ~ Les Misérables .. You'll be on the edge of your seat till the very end. ..

* Feature * Film ~ The Young Victoria .. Did you know that Queen Victoria's first language was German ? Or that her husband was German ? ..

* Feature * Film ~ The American President

* Feature * Film ~ The Day of the Jackal

* Feature * Film ~ Dave

* Feature * Film ~ Lincoln

* American Presidents * Bundle

* Christmas Unwrapped

* Feature * Film ~ The Gilded Age

* Mamie Eisenhower * Think Pink .. It's free. ..

Mamie was our last First Lady to be born in the 1800s.

Learn more about the seldom-talked-about wife of one of our most famous German-Americans, President Dwight David Eisenhower. ..

* The Haunted History of Halloween

* Famous Couples Activity ♥ Valentine's Day .. Couples from history, literature, and film ..

* Feature * Film ~ The Founder

* Feature * Film ~ The Polio Crusade ~ Jonas Salk

* Permission To Watch Movie Form .. It's free. ..

* The Spanish Armada .. Useful as a Sub Plan ..

* Feature * Film ~ The Current War .. George Westinghouse, a German-American inventor & entrepreneur, & Thomas Edison, lighting up our world ..

* Movies ~ Generic Review Form

.. For at-home movie assignments, extra credit, or distance learning ~ an easy way

to help students stay focused and document their learning for you ..

* Feature * Film ~ Quiz Show .. The disappointing deception of a rigged game show ..

* Mrs. Brown

* Radium Girls .. New discoveries can be terrific and toxic at the same time ..

* Feature * Film ~ The Mask of Zorro .. California history ..

* The Legend Of Zorro ~ Movie Guide + Quiz + Word Search

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