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Free middle school ELA test prep movie guides
West Side Story Viewing Slides - Big Ideas & Central Ideas/Messages/Themes
FREEBIE ALERTCORRESPONDING WORKSHEETAfter teaching Reynold's Long Way Down, I realized that there are so many common themes between the texts we are reading in 9th grade this year.I showed my students "West Side Story" in order to build a bridge between texts and prepare them for reading Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet.In this lesson, we started with watching and analyzing the lyrics to "America". I showed them the music video for America from the 2021 version of West Side Story.I
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8th - 12th
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Also included in:Â A Long Way Down Growing Bundle
Hunger Games Movie Unit
Resources include a full week of powerpoint slides, common core aligned mini assessments, classwork, and a movie critic outline.
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Grades:
7th - 12th
Literary Analysis of Pixar's Up
Ask your students to apply their skills of literary analysis to Pixar's Academy Award-winning Up. Students must analyze setting, characterization, and motif to arrive at two overarching themes. This activity can be used for practice or as an assessment. A perfect substitute teacher plan.
Grades:
7th - 12th
Story Elements Using Sky High
This activity can be used to review basic story elements for an intermediate to advanced group of ESL students.
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8th - 10th
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