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Thanksgiving short stories movie guides
Pixar-like Shorts: Films For Theme Inference Plot Foreshadowing Writing Alma
Alma - a short film literary element study that students will actually WANT to do! ❤AWARD WINNING PIXAR-like SHORT FILM: ALMA This spooky workshop focuses on how a professional writer uses literary elements to foreshadow trouble. Students learn that literary elements interact to shape the story and will use these elements to create an alternate ending. LITERARY ELEMENTS/DEVICES:FORESHADOWING-Students learn specific foreshadowing techniquesMAKING INFERENCES-Searching For CluesPLOT-Creepy plot el
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5th - 8th
Pixar-like Shorts: Films For Christmas/Winter Activities Literary Elements Theme
Pixar-like Short Film LITERARY AND NARRATIVE WRITING Workshop: HEY DEER!Looking for a fun way to teach theme, plot, setting, and narrative writing. This winter themed workshop is both rigorous and adorable! It can be used for a Christmas activity, but it is also a great winter activity, appropriate for students who don't celebrate this holiday.Students will use the graphic organizers to analyze the plot of Hey Deer!, then use STORYBOARD templates to plan and write their own narrative. DIFFERENTI
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5th - 8th
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Pixar-like Shorts Plot Theme Character Literary Elements Worksheets & Slides SEL
Pixar SHORT FILMS are the perfect way to teach literary elements and SEL! This digital, interactive workshop studies the short film, Joy and Heron and guides students through an analysis of the 6 basic literary elements to prepare them for the culminating narrative writing assignment. Students watch the film directly from their slides and work through all of the fun activities. Film Synopsis: A cute puppy, Joy, scuffles with an ornery Heron when the bird tries to steal her owner's fishing worms.
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5th - 8th
Teach Language Arts with Film Clips: Suspense and Foreshadowing
This short Film, Alma, is an excellent tool to have students review suspense and foreshadowing techniques. Students love the "creepy" film and figuring out exactly what has happened to the character. The file includes the film, student worksheets, and an answer key. The 4 worksheet pages include pause times to have students reflect and infer, as well as screenshots for analyzing examples of foreshadowing. Older students will enjoy this film which is not too young and engaging enough to keep them
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6th - 12th
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Free Birds Movie Guide | Thanksgiving Activities | Answer Key Included
This 16 page Thanksgiving movie guide with handouts accompanies the film "Free Birds (2013)". ★★ 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. The multiple choice questions may also work well with ESL/ELL students. Answer keys included. • 40 questions in chronological order.• 30 que
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1st - 6th
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The Princess Bride: Film Study Using Short Story Terminology (Great End of Year)
GREAT END-OF-YEAR REVIEW ACTIVITY. This movie reviews short story terminology with sound educational value and provides a fun way to re-engage learners at the end of the school year, the start of the new year, or directly before or after holidays. (And let's face it: The Princess Bride, is one of the best and most beloved films of all time.)GREAT STARTER TO A SHORT STORY UNIT (terms review) This seven-page pdf document contains three different activities for a film study of The Princess Bride
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7th - 12th
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Christmas OR Winter Pixar-like Short Films Literary Devices THEME & NARRATIVE
HEY DEER! ANIMATED PIXAR SHORT FILM! Great for Christmas OR winter ELA. Short films are the perfect way to teach narrative writing and literary elements and devices. This workshop guides students through an analysis of 6 basic literary elements to prepare them for the culminating narrative writing task. Students watch the film directly from their slides and work through all of the guided activities.❤ Winter themed- but NO direct Christmas referencesSettingCharacters/CharacterizationPoint of View
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6th - 9th
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PIXAR -like Shorts Literary Analysis Devices Elements Plot Theme SEL Activities
FULL LITERARY UNIT! TEACH LITERARY ELEMENTS AND ANALYSIS WITH AN AWARD-WINNING ANIMATED SHORT FILM: THE PRESENT. TEACH LITERARY ELEMENTS AND ANALYSIS WITH AN AWARD-WINNING ANIMATED SHORT FILM: THE PRESENT. In this workshop, students learn to identify characterization techniques, plot twist, theme, conflict, and symbolism and how make inferences based on evidence from the film. Includes constructed response writing prompts with sample answers for everything. CULMINATING ACTIVITIES:❤ DESIGN A THE
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5th - 8th
PIXAR ANIMATED SHORT FILMS ONE PAGERS FOR LITERARY DEVICES ELEMENTS & TECHNIQUES
Fun, quick, engaging one-pagers for teaching literary elements with animated short films! This pack includes: THEME, CONFLICT, DIALOGUE, FORESHADOWING & FLASHBACK, CHARACTER MOTIVATION, PLOT, AND PLOT TWIST!*DIGITAL VERSION: CLICK HERE*DIGITAL & PRINTABLE CLICK HERESHORT FILMS (links included)⭐ PLOT: GLUED⭐ PLOT TWIST: THE PRESENT⭐ DIALOGUE: FOR THE BIRDS⭐ CHARACTER MOTIVATION: SELFIE CAT⭐ FORESHADOWING & FLASHBACK: SNACK ATTACK⭐ THEME: JOY & HERONFOLLOW DIGIGOODS FOR FREEBIE AND
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5th - 8th
Pixar-like Animated Shorts Plot Conflict Inference Literary Devices & Elements
Engage your students with this fun literary workshop for use with Pix Short Film, Defective Detective. This workshop focuses on Inferences, Plot, and Internal & External Conflict. Tried and true winner with students and teachers!❤ FILM SUMMARY: A detective with a "defective" overreactive imagination tries to solve a case, but instead ends up angering an old lady who he thinks is in trouble. He picks up on all of the wrong clues and believes she is being assaulted, but in reality, she is onl
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5th - 8th
Charlie Brown Thanksgiving Study Guide-Common Core Aligned for Middle School
Let's face it: there aren't very many good Thanksgiving movies. And if you have school the first few days of Thanksgiving week, you're looking for something fun, but also worthwhile. Charlie Brown and I are here to save the day!This product includes a 7 question study guide and answer key for the holiday classic, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. The questions are all short-response, require critical thinking, and align with common core standards for English.I used the 7th grade standards, but due t
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6th - 8th
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Pixar shorts films theme plot flashback foreshadowing SEL literary elements
COMPREHENSIVE LITERARY ELEMENT UNIT! Animated short film workshop, Snack Attack is a PROVEN FUN AND EFFECTIVE way to teach literary analysis! This workshop focuses on foreshadowing, flashback, character traits, dialogue, theme and conflict. Tried and true winner with students and teachers!CLICK HERE FOR A PRINTABLE ONLY VERSION❤ FILM SUMMARY: A cranky old lady believes the teen boy on the bench next to her is stealing her cookies. But she realizes through a flashback that she had unwittingly s
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5th - 8th
The Pilgrims from PBS American Experience: Viewing Guide
The American Experience series from PBS guarantees quality viewing material for your classes. The episode "The Pilgrims" follows the religious group as they journey from England to Massachusetts to form the Plymouth Colony. The Pilgrim's challenges and successes are noteworthy nearly 400 years after their settlement. This viewing guide on PBS American Experience "The Pilgrims" totals 35 fill-in-the-blank questions. An answer key is provided. The guide will create detailed and organized chronolog
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: The Crucible and The Scarlet Letter Bundle
Teaching Literary Elements with Animated Short Films: The Lost Thing
This set of standards-based lessons includes an examination of plot, conflict, setting, mood, symbolism, and theme. Teach advanced lessons for secondary students on setting, mood, symbolism, and theme using the picture book, "Lost and Found" by Shaun Tan or the Oscar Award-winning short film "The Lost Thing" (book/film not included). The Lost Thing is a story about a boy who finds a strange creature on the beach. He decides that it must be lost and that he must find where this creature belongs.
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6th - 9th
Also included in: Five Short Films for Teaching Theme
Lamb to the Slaughter: Ethos, Pathos, and Logos
*Updated 10/12/20: For each worksheet, I’ve created a png image of the worksheet and then put that image as the background in a Google Slide. The students can use all of the tools in Slides to mark their answers. The links are already set up to force students to make a copy so they each have their own version of the worksheet in their Google Drive. Copy and paste the links below to share with your students. Please don’t post these links on any websites that are not password protected. A whole ne
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8th - 12th
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"It's a Wonderful Life" Compare and Contrast with Original Short Story
Do you have a week before Christmas break and do not want to start a new unit? Or are you teaching American Literature and want to introduce students to a heartwarming traditional story?This bundle gives you- a 9 page PDF of the original short story called "The Greatest Gift". - A one-page set of Comprehension questions for the story.- A Compare/Contrast chart to fill out while students watch the movie.Note: You will need your own copy of the movie for this to work. The original story was sent
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7th - 12th
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Differentiated Lessons for Plot, Character, and Theme Using Pixar's "La Luna"
This set of standards-based lessons focuses on plot elements, characterization, conflict, and theme. Within each focus area, there are pages for use with students that are "approaching standard" and "on standard." There are additional pages for students who have mastered the standard and are ready to level up that focus on the coming of age genre and a paired non-fiction text (TED talk). Check out the preview for examples.My goal in teaching with films is to give students an understanding of lit
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6th
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Also included in: Five Short Films for Teaching Theme
Plot Diagram Activity Using Disney Movies
This product contains everything you need to create a plot diagram sorting activity for your students. There are slips for Toy Story 3, The Lion King, and Cinderella. The teacher will cut the slips and place them in labeled envelopes or bags. The students must sort them onto a plot diagram, and can check their work with the included answer keys.
There are also a set of slips with the definitions of each term on the plot diagram (exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution).
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5th - 9th
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Dirty Jobs : Turkey Farmer (career video worksheet) - Thanksgiving / No Prep
*Video is necessary for completion of this worksheet. *Please make sure you have access to the video prior to making your purchase.** $AVE - DIRTY JOBS BUNDLE SET #1 **** $AVE - DIRTY JOBS BUNDLE SET #2 **** $AVE - DIRTY JOBS BUNDLE SET #3 ****$AVE - DIRTY JOBS BUNDLE SET #4 ****$AVE - DIRTY JOBS SUPER BUNDLE SET (60 WORKSHEETS! / 100 CAREERS!)**As of July 2019, episodes of Dirty Jobs can be found both free and for low-price purchase through a number of Internet and video streaming services. T
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: DIRTY JOBS: BUNDLE SET #1 (17 Science Career Video sheets / STEM / Sub)
Free Birds Movie Questions with ANSWERS | MOVIE GUIDE Worksheet (2013)
Free Birds movie questions (released 2013) help keep students engaged throughout the film by providing 17 questions for them to answer to keep them on track. The Free Birds worksheet comes with a key that has suggested answers provided at the end.The Free Birds Movie Guide follows as a turkey pardoned by the president gets to live a carefree lifestyle, until fellow fowl Jake recruits him for a history-changing mission. Jake and Reggie travel back in time to the year 1621, just before the first
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4th - 12th
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A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving Movie Viewing Guide | Worksheet | Google (1973)
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving Movie Viewing Guide | Worksheet | Google (1973) is a short, 30 minute activity great for a quick, no-prep Thanksgiving lesson. Challenge your students to think critically about the meaning of Thanksgiving, and learn a life lesson in communicating clearly from the misunderstanding between Charlie Brown and Peppermint Patty. This can also make a great substitute lesson since it is unrated and certainly appropriate for all audiences.Note: This film can be found on some
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2nd - 6th
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Also included in: Thanksgiving Movie Guide Bundle for Lower Grades | SAVE 30%
The Little Match Girl Christmas Short Story Analysis for the Common Core
The Little Match Girl is a classic story by Hans Christian Anderson. This analysis applies the common core standards for literature. The goal of the study is to challenge students with critical thinking questions directly connected to the text.
The study includes:
1. The story in block form with questions for each block.
2. Questions that are text-based and require analysis.
3. Using specific text to analyze the development of theme.
4. Analyzing the use of specific words and phrases to c
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4th - 8th
The Mayflower Voyagers* Movie Vocabulary and Writing Activities
I love showing “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” to my 4th graders in November. But included on the DVD of “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” is an adorable little bonus gem, “The Mayflower Voyagers”. In addition to it being a fun little featurette, it’s also a surprisingly accurate account of the historical events of the Mayflower voyage and the First Thanksgiving. I love seeing my kids enjoy this video and then become engaged in vocabulary and writing activities based on this story. This product co
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2nd - 7th
Short Films Hair Love Theme Inference Plot Worksheets Literary Devices Elements
Guaranteed engagement with this animated short film workshop, Hair Love. It teaches inferencing, theme, foreshadowing, plot twist, symbolism, and conflict. This workshop highlights the work of black writer, Matthew Cherry, who aims to portray black fathers in a positive light and represent them fairly in the media. In this heartwarming film, a young father struggles to help his daughter fix her hair while her mother is recovering from chemotherapy. ❤ EASEL COMPATIBLEStudents work through the g
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4th - 8th
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