The Princess Bride Bundle: Narrative Writing and Movie Guide

The first half of this bundle uses The Princess Bride as an illustration in order to take students through critical aspects of the narrative form. It is a fun PowerPoint that can be enhanced by showing clips of the film The Princess Bride (links to film clips are embedded). This PowerPoint will give buyers the following: guidelines for narrative writing, aspects of narrative writing, elements of writing dialogue,examples of plot structure, student activities, and engaging material to make narratives fun and interesting. This took a lot of work for me to pull together, and I am happy with the final product. Enjoy.

The second half of the bundle provides a movie guide with tons of 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. Printing instructions are included. The presenation includes some background on the film to engage students, and follows with questions students answer as they are watching the film. The questions are time stamped and may be used in chunks (i.e. pausing the film at certain junctures), or may simply be printed out (by printing 6 to 9 slides at a time). Either way, this is an excellent tool for watching the film and connecting its content to the novel.