Rikki-Tikki-Tavi Multimodal Unit: Text - Movie - Historical Themes in Literature

Overview

5 Classes with 4 homework assignments used to discuss Kipling and British Imperialism. This multimodal unit uses a short story, a poem, a movie, and non-fiction literary and historical analysis to teach how to interpret a story for symbolism and compare that story’s themes across media.

Materials Included

PDF Rikki-Tikki-Tavi by Kipling

Historical and Literary analysis PDFs

Video link to Chuck Jones’s Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

Whippoorwill Notation Sheet - be sure to allow your students to fill this out throughout the unit to connect all the sources they investigate (print multiple if necessary!)

Reading Roundtable Role Sheets

Five Timestamps - Five Ideas Watching Tool — students mark timestamps and analyze the video, giving ideas along with their citation. They use these to have an academic discussion in class.

Daily Lesson Plan