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Wednesday 19 June 2024

Arthur the King Movie Guide + Activities | Answer Keys Included

Description

This 14 page movie guide with additional activities accompanies the film "Arthur the King (2024)".

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This guide may also work well as a sub plan for your substitute teacher.

PART 1 – Comprehension questions in chronological order. I have made three sets for differentiation. The multiple-choice questions may also work well with ESL/ELL students. Answer keys included.

  • 40 questions requiring full sentence answers.
  • 30 questions requiring full sentence answers (10 removed from the 40-question set)
  • 29 multiple choice questions with 3 possible answers + the final question is a full sentence answer.

PART 2 – Storyboard and synopsis

  • Students to draw a 9-scene storyboard of what they believe to be the most important parts in the movie. To include a brief description for each scene. Remind students they can look at the movie questions to help with the sequences.
  • Using their storyboards as guides, students to write a synopsis of the movie.

PART 3 – Creativity

  • Students to imagine they're junior reporters working on an exciting article about Team Broadrail's Dominican Republic race. They need to bullet point important events and construct imaginative quotes from interviewing the team after the race.
  • Using the information from the previous section, students to write an exciting article about the adventures of Team Broadrail's race. Include a drawing.

About the movie

Based on the memoir by Mikael Lindnord, the movie follows an American runner and his adventure racing team as they make their way through a 5-day race in the Dominican Republic. During the race they encounter a stray dog who starts to follow them on their adventure.


Monday 17 June 2024

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar Short Film Guide + Activities | Answer Keys Included

Description 

This 7 page film guide with additional activities accompanies the short film "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (2023)".

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This guide may also work well as a sub plan for your substitute teacher.

PART 1 – Comprehension questions in chronological order. I have made two sets for differentiation. The multiple choice questions may also work well with ESL/ELL students. Answer keys included.

  • 20 questions requiring full sentence answers.
  • 20 multiple choice questions with 3 possible answers

PART 2 – Storyboard and synopsis

  • Students to draw a 9 scene storyboard of what they believe to be the most important parts in the short film. To include a brief description for each scene. Remind students they can look at the movie questions to help with the sequences.
  • Using their storyboards as guides, students to write a synopsis of the film.

PART 3 – Creativity

  • Students to be imaginative and think up 2 other different ways Henry could have used his skill to find money for the hospitals and orphanages, and then explain a typical day.

Based on the short story by Roald Dahl, the film follows Henry Sugar, a rich singleton who stumbles upon a memoir of a chap named Imdad Khan who could miraculously see without using his eyes.


Wednesday 24 April 2024

Franklin TV Guide Episode One + Activities | Sauce for Prayers | Answer Keys Inc

Description 

This 8 page episode guide with additional activities accompanies Episode One: Sauce for Prayers, for the mini TV series "Franklin (2024)".

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This guide may also work well as a sub plan for your substitute teacher.

PART 1 – Comprehension questions in chronological order. I have made two sets for differentiation. The multiple choice questions may also work well with ESL/ELL students. Answer keys included.

  • 18 questions requiring full sentence answers.
  • 18 multiple choice questions with 3 possible answers

PART 2 – Storyboard, synopsis and discussion questions.

  • Students to draw a 9 scene storyboard of what they believe to be the most important parts in the episode. To include a brief description for each scene. Remind students they can look at the episode questions to help with the sequences.
  • Using their storyboards as guides, students to write a synopsis of the episode.
  • 5 thought provoking questions to be used as a class discussion. May work well if completed in pairs first then shared with the rest of the class. Includes example/suggested answers.

About the Episode

This series starts with Benjamin Franklin and his grandson arriving on the shores of France, and set forth on a secret mission to secure money and military aid for the ongoing battle against England.

Franklin is a biographical drama miniseries about the United States Founding Father Benjamin Franklin. Based on Stacy Schiff's 2005 book "A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America."


Wednesday 17 April 2024

The Hunger Games | The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes Movie Guide + Activities

Description 

This 14 page movie guide with additional activities accompanies the film "The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (2023)".

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This guide may also work well as a sub plan for your substitute teacher.

PART 1 – Comprehension questions in chronological order. I have made two sets for differentiation. The multiple choice questions may also work well with ESL/ELL students. Answer keys included(Each page represents a part depicted in the movie: The Mentor, The Prize and The Peacekeeper)

  • 52 questions requiring full sentence answers.
  • 52 multiple choice questions with 3 possible answers

PART 2 – Storyboard and synopsis

  • Students to draw a 9 scene storyboard of what they believe to be the most important parts in the movie. To include a brief description for each scene. Remind students they can look at the movie questions to help with the sequences.
  • Using their storyboards as guides, students to write a synopsis of the movie.

PART 3 – Characters

  • Students to choose any character from the movie and write about them. To include a drawing.
  • Students to write a short scene for three of the characters that performed an action off-screen. Lucy Gray’s journey from the reaping ceremony to the Capital, Sejanus bribing the Peacekeeper so he could sneak into the arena and Spruce taking the guns to the log cabin in the woods by the lake.

The movie follows a young Coriolanus Snow, years before he would become the tyrannical President of Panem as shown in the original Hunger Games with Katniss Everdeen. With the 10th Hunger Games looming, young Snow has been tasked with mentoring a tribute from District 12.


Spider-Man Movie Guide + Activities | Answer Key Included

Description 

This 15 page movie guide with additional activities accompanies the film "Spider-Man (2002)".

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This guide may also work well as a sub plan for your substitute teacher.

PART 1 – Comprehension questions in chronological order. I have made three sets for differentiation. The multiple choice questions may also work well with ESL/ELL students. Answer keys included.

  • 50 questions requiring full sentence answers.
  • 35 questions requiring full sentence answers (15 removed from the 50 question set)
  • 34 multiple choice questions with 3 possible answers (+ the last question is a full sentence answer)

PART 2 – Storyboard and synopsis

  • Students to draw a 9 scene storyboard of what they believe to be the most important parts in the movie. To include a brief description for each scene. Remind students they can look at the movie questions to help with the sequences.
  • Using their storyboards as guides, students to write a synopsis of the movie.

PART 3 – Character writing

  • Students to write about Spider-Man and the Green Goblin following the question prompts. Includes a drawing of both. Could be helpful as a stepping stone for a group analysis of the two characters.

About the movie

The movie follows Peter Parker, a high-schooler who was orphaned as a teenager and now lives with his aunt and uncle. While on a excursion to a laboratory, Peter accidently gets bitten by a genetically modified spider and his life changes in a way no one could have imagined.


Indiana Jones | Raiders of the Lost Ark Movie Guide + Activities | Answer Keys Included

Description 

This 15 page movie guide with additional activities accompanies the film "Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)".

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This guide may also work well as a sub plan for your substitute teacher.

PART 1 – Comprehension questions in chronological order. I have made three sets for differentiation. The multiple choice questions may also work well with ESL/ELL students. Answer keys included.

  • 50 questions requiring full sentence answers.
  • 35 questions requiring full sentence answers (15 removed from the 50 question set)
  • 35 multiple choice questions with 3 possible answers

PART 2 – Storyboard and synopsis

  • Students to draw a 9 scene storyboard of what they believe to be the most important parts in the movie. To include a brief description for each scene. Remind students they can look at the movie questions to help with the sequences.
  • Using their storyboards as guides, students to write a synopsis of the movie.

PART 3 – News article writing

  • Students to imagine they are reporters for the college newspaper and have heard rumors of Dr. Jones’s recent adventure. Students need to “interview” the professor and Marion Ravenwood for both sides of the story in order to write a short article.
  • Using the notes, students then go on to write an exciting article, which also includes a drawing and quotes from the interviews.

The movie is about Indiana Jones, a professor of Archaeology who gets roped in to searching for the famous Ark of Covenant. After US Army intelligence visits the college, Dr. Jones finds out that Adolf Hitler is on a quest to find it first and unleash its supernatural powers.


Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Movie Guide + Activities + Answer Keys Included

Description 

This 23 page movie guide with additional activity handouts is for the film "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)".

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This guide may also work well as a sub plan for your substitute teacher.

PART 1 – Comprehension questions in chronological order. I have made three sets for differentiation. The multiple choice questions may also work well with ESL/ELL students. Answer keys included.

  • 70 questions requiring full sentence answers.
  • 50 questions requiring full sentence answers (20 removed from the 70 question set)
  • 50 multiple choice questions with 3 possible answers

PART 2 – Storyboard and synopsis

  • Students to draw a 9 scene storyboard of what they believe to be the most important parts in the movie. To include a brief description for each scene. Remind students they can look at the movie questions to help with the sequences.
  • Using their storyboards as guides, students to write a synopsis of the movie.

PART 3 – Character writing

  • Students to write about the three friends Harry, Hermione and Ron following the question prompts and to include a drawing of each of them. Includes a template for any other character. May work well in groups of three.

PART 4 – Just for fun word search and crossword puzzle (10 questions with the answers being the words to find in the word search) also 5 hidden words to find. Answer key included. Useful for early finishers too.

This is the first movie in the series and follows Harry Potter, who on his 11th Birthday discovers that he is no ordinary boy. A warm loveable giant named Hagrid informs Harry that he is a wizard and has a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Here he learns the truth about himself, his family and the dangerous evil that haunts the magical world.


Friday 2 February 2024

The Pale Blue Eye Movie Guide + Activities | Edgar Allan Poe | Answer Keys Included

Description 

This 15 page movie guide with additional activities accompanies the film "The Pale Blue Eye (2022)".

★★ Check out the full preview! ★★

This guide may also work well as a sub plan for your substitute teacher.

PART 1 – Comprehension questions in chronological order. I have made three sets for differentiation. The multiple choice questions may also work well with ESL/ELL students. Answer keys included.

  • 45 questions requiring full sentence answers.
  • 30 questions requiring full sentence answers (15 removed from the 45 question set)
  • 30 multiple choice questions with 3 possible answers

PART 2 – Storyboard and synopsis

  • Students to draw a 9 scene storyboard of what they believe to be the most important parts in the movie. To include a brief description for each scene. Remind students they can look at the movie questions to help with the sequences.
  • Using their storyboards as guides, students to write a synopsis of the movie.

PART 3 – News article writing

  • Students to imagine they are junior reporters who go visit West Point Academy to interview a cadet named Edgar A. Poe. In the first part they write notes on the imaginary interview in preparation to write a short news article, which will include questions and answers from Mr. Poe.
  • Using the notes, students to write an informative article, which also includes a drawing and quotes from the interview.

Based on the novel by Louis Bayard, the movie follows Mr. Landor, a weary detective who is hired to investigate the murder of a cadet at the US Military Academy at West Point. Embarking on a challenging, time-sensitive mission to collect clues, he enlists one of their own to help unravel the case, a young man named Edgar Allan Poe.


Wednesday 18 October 2023

Ghostbusters Movie Guide + Activities | Halloween | Answer Keys Inc

Description 

This 15 page movie guide with additional activities accompanies the film "Ghostbusters (1984)".

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This guide may also work well as a sub plan for your substitute teacher.

PART 1 – Comprehension questions in chronological order. I have made three sets for differentiation. The multiple choice questions may also work well with ESL/ELL students. Answer keys included.

  • 50 questions requiring full sentence answers.
  • 30 questions requiring full sentence answers (20 removed from the 50 question set)
  • 30 multiple choice questions with 3 possible answers

PART 2 – Storyboard and synopsis

  • Students to draw a 9 scene storyboard of what they believe to be the most important parts in the movie. To include a brief description for each scene. Remind students they can look at the movie questions to help with the sequences.
  • Using their storyboards as guides, students to write a synopsis of the movie.

PART 3 – Creativity

  • Students to imagine they're interns at the Ghostbusters' headquarters and are tasked with documenting new ghosts captured. Students to write about the most recent one following the prompts, including a drawing of the ghost.
  • Students to imagine they're junior reporters who witnessed the phenomenon at the Ghostbusters’ headquarters. They need to write an article about what happened and include quotes from Louis about his own personal experience.

About the movie

After losing funding at their university, three parapsychologists set up shop as a ghost removal service in New York City. With business booming from a sudden surge in paranormal activity, the Ghostbusters find themselves suddenly up against a bigger threat than they had imagined. This is rated PG, you can get a free permission slip here.


Saturday 7 October 2023

The Lord of the Rings | The Two Towers Movie Guide + Activities | Answer Keys Included

Description 

This 20 page movie guide with additional activities accompanies the film "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) - Extended Version".

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This guide may also work well as a sub plan for your substitute teacher.

PART 1 – Comprehension questions in chronological order. I have made three sets for differentiation. The multiple choice questions may also work well with ESL/ELL students. Answer keys included.

  • 70 questions requiring full sentence answers.
  • 50 questions requiring full sentence answers (20 removed from the 70 question set)
  • 50 multiple choice questions with 3 possible answers

PART 2 – Storyboard and synopsis

  • Students to draw a 9 scene storyboard of what they believe to be the most important parts in the movie. To include a brief description for each scene. Remind students they can look at the movie questions to help with the sequences.
  • Using their storyboards as guides, students to write a synopsis of the movie.

PART 3 – Character writing, crossword and word search

  • Students to write about one of the characters following the question prompts and to include a drawing of their chosen character.
  • Just for fun/time filler word search and crossword puzzle (10 questions with the answers being the words to find in the word search) also 5 additional words to find. Answer key included.

This is the second movie in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, which continues following the journey of Frodo and Sam as they make their way towards Mordor. With Merry and Pippin captured by the orcs in the previous movie, the three friends Legolas, Aragorn and Gimli are hot on their trail to save them. This is rated PG-13, you can get a free parent permission slip here.


Please note, this is for the Extended Version of the movie


Friday 29 September 2023

Halloweentown Movie Guide + Activities | Halloween | Answer Keys Inc

Description 

This 11 page Halloween movie guide with additional activity handouts is for the film "Halloweentown (1998)".

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This guide may also work well as a sub plan for your substitute teacher.

PART 1 – Comprehension questions in chronological order. I have made two sets for differentiation. The multiple choice questions may also work well with ESL/ELL students. Answer keys included.

  • 35 questions requiring full sentence answers.
  • 35 multiple choice questions with 3 possible answers

PART 2 – Storyboard and synopsis

  • Students to draw a 9 scene storyboard of what they believe to be the most important parts in the movie. To include a brief description for each scene. Remind students they can look at the movie questions to help with the sequences.
  • Using their storyboards as guides, students to write a synopsis of the movie.

PART 3 – Character creation and newspaper report writing

  • Students to imagine they are a character living in Halloweentown. Using their creativity, they decide the type of character they'll be, such as a werewolf, ghost, witch etc then draw and write about it following the prompts.
  • Students to imagine they are reporters from Halloweentown and write an article about the time when Kalabar was thwarted trying to convince everyone to become evil and take back the mortal world. To include quotes and a drawing.

The movie is about the Cromwell family and their secret connection to Halloweentown. When grandmother Aggie (who happens to be a witch) arrives to try and get her daughter Gwen's help to save Halloweentown, the children overhear and are suddenly whisked off for an adventure in this strange place where it’s always Halloween.


Tuesday 12 September 2023

The Halloween Tree Movie Guide + Activities | Answer Keys Inc

Description 

This 12 page Halloween movie guide with additional activity handouts is for the film "The Halloween Tree (1993)".

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This guide may also work well as a sub plan for your substitute teacher.

PART 1 – Comprehension questions in chronological order. I have made two sets for differentiation. The multiple choice questions may also work well with ESL/ELL students. Answer keys included.

  • 30 questions requiring full sentence answers.
  • 29 multiple choice questions with 3 possible answers. The last question requires a full sentence answer.

PART 2 – Storyboard and synopsis

  • Students to draw a 9 scene storyboard of what they believe to be the most important parts in the movie. To include a brief description for each scene. Remind students they can look at the movie questions to help with the sequences.
  • Using their storyboards as guides, students to write a synopsis of the movie.

PART 3 – Character writing, crossword & wordsearch

  • Students to write about one of the characters following the question prompts and to include a drawing of their chosen character.
  • Just for fun word search and crossword puzzle (10 questions with the answers being the words to find in the word search) also 5 hidden words to find. Answer key included.

Based on Ray Bradbury's novel of the same name, the movie follows four trick-or-treating friends who are whisked away on a spooky adventure where they learn about the origins of Halloween, and at the same time help rescue their best friend Pip. 


Spare Parts Movie Guide + Activities | Hispanic Heritage Month | Answer Keys Inc

Description 

This 15 page movie guide with additional activities accompanies the film "Spare Parts (2015)".

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This guide may also work well as a sub plan for your substitute teacher. Prepare your students for the oncoming year with this inspirational and positive movie about hard work, honesty, personal accountability, and treating others well.

PART 1 – Comprehension questions in chronological order. I have made three sets for differentiation. The multiple choice questions may also work well with ESL/ELL students. Answer keys included.

  • 50 questions requiring full sentence answers.
  • 35 questions requiring full sentence answers (15 removed from the 50 question set)
  • 35 multiple choice questions with 3 possible answers

PART 2 – Storyboard and synopsis

  • Students to draw a 9 scene storyboard of what they believe to be the most important parts in the movie. To include a brief description for each scene. Remind students they can look at the movie questions to help with the sequences.
  • Using their storyboards as guides, students to write a synopsis of the movie.

PART 3 – News article writing

  • Students to imagine they are junior reporters who go visit the boys after they won the competition. In the first part they write notes on the imaginary interviews in preparation to write a short news article, which will include questions and answers from the boys.
  • Using the notes, students to write an exciting article, which also includes a drawing and quotes from the interviews.

Based on a true story, the movie follows four Mexican high school students who form a robotics club under the guidance of their new substitute teacher. With little experience and a limited budget, the boys manage to put together an underwater robot good enough to enter into the National Underwater Robotics Competition. Working together they learn to build a bond that will last a lifetime. This is rated PG-13, you can get a free permission slip here.