October Sky Movie Guide + Activities - Answer Keys Included

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This 14 page movie guide with handouts is for the film "October Sky (1999)". This guide will also work well as a sub plan for your substitute teacher.

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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 have also worked well with my ESL students. Answer keys included.

• 40 questions requiring full sentence answers.

• 25 questions requiring full sentence answers (15 removed from the 40 question set)

• 24 multiple choice questions with 3 possible answers (Q25 requires a full sentence answer)

PART 2 – Creative writing

• Students to write a newspaper article about Homer winning at the National Science Fair. Needs to include a drawing.

• Students to design and label a rocket site similar to the one Homer and his friends had made. They then need to write in detail the setup and a recount of a launch.

PART 3 – 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 remind them of the sequences

• Synopsis. Using their storyboards as guides, students to write a synopsis of the movie.

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Based on Homer Hickam's memoir Rocket Boys, the movie follows the true story of Homer in his determination to build and launch his own rocket with the help of three friends. Unfortunately, most of the town and especially Homer's father thinks that they are wasting their time.

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The Ultimate Gift Movie Guide + Activities - Answer Key Included

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This 10 page movie guide with handouts is to accompany the film "The Ultimate Gift (2006)". This guide will also work well as a sub plan for your substitute teacher.

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PART 1 – Comprehension Questions in chronological order. Answer key included.

• 45 questions requiring full sentence answers.

• 30 questions requiring full sentence answers. (15 removed from the 45 question sheet)

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.

• Essay. Using their storyboards as guides, students to write a synopsis of the movie.

Based on the best selling novel by Jim Stovall, the movie is about a deceased billionaire who leaves his spoiled adult grandson a series of odd tasks to perform in pursuit for the ultimate gift. But on the way he meets a bunch of individuals who give him valuable lessons of life.

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Tolkien Movie Guide + Activities - Answer Keys Included

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This 7 page movie guide with handouts is to accompany the film "Tolkien (2019)". This guide will also work well as a sub plan for your substitute teacher.

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PART 1 – Comprehension Questions. Answer key included.

• 35 questions requiring full sentence answers.

PART 2 – Essay, storyboard and discussion questions

• After watching the movie, there are 5 higher level thinking questions to answer. Students to come together as a class once completed to discuss and explain further their answers. Includes examples teacher answers. Use this as a springboard for other questions about Tolkien

• 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.

• Essay. Using their storyboards as guides, students to write a synopsis of the movie.

Based on the early life of J.R.R. Tolkien, the movie follows the author as he finds friendship, love, and artistic inspiration among a group of fellow outcasts at school. As WW1 breaks out, Tolkien ends up at the Somme in France which would inspire him to write his famous Middle-Earth novels.

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Dora and the Lost City of Gold Movie Guide + Activities - Answer Key included

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This 16 page movie guide with additional activity handouts is for the film "Dora and the Lost City of Gold (2019)". This guide will also work well as a sub plan for your substitute teacher.

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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. Answer keys included

• 40 questions in chronological order.

• 30 questions in chronological order (10 questions removed from the 40 question set)

• 30 multiple choice questions in chronological order with 3 possible answers.

PART 2 – recount writing, describing a character.

• Students to imagine they’ve just interviewed Dora and her friends about their jungle adventure. They then write an article for their school paper.

• Students to write a little bit about the favorite character in the movie. Includes describing them, writing about their personality and what the student liked and disliked about them. Also need to draw them.

PART 3 – Puzzle (answer key included)

1. First students need to put 10 events from the movie in the correct order.

2. Following that, the students use those answers to get 10 letters that will go into the code box.

3. They can then use those 10 letters in the code box to complete part of the secret message and to work out the sequence. Once they have the sequence they can work out the secret message and the answer to the riddle. I have highlighted the sequence in bold in the code box.

Marking idea for the comprehension questions

When the students have finished the questions, they swap their work with their friends to mark. We go through together as a class, taking it in turns to ask and answer questions. Students can also check grammar and spelling if more advanced, and then rechecked by the teacher.

This movie is about Dora, a teenage explorer, who leads her friends on an adventure to save her parents and solve the mystery behind a lost city of gold.

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Flipped Movie Guide + Writing Activities - Answer Keys Included

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This 12 page movie guide with handouts is for the film "Flipped (2010)". This guide will also work well as a sub plan for your substitute teacher.

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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. Answer keys included

- 40 questions in chronological order.

- 30 questions in chronological order (10 questions removed from the 40 question set)

- 30 multiple choice questions with 3 possible answers. In chronological order.

PART 2 – Newspaper article and Diary entries

• Students to write what they think was written in the article about Juli refusing to climb out of the sycamore tree. To Include a picture as well.

• Students to write a diary entry for both Juli and Bryce on the evening of the day the Mayfield Boosters Club Auction was held.

The movie is based on Wendelin Van Draanen's novel of the same name, which tells the story of two eight-graders who start to have feelings for each other despite being total opposites.

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Schindler's List Movie Guide + Activities - Answer Keys Included

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This 12 page movie guide with handouts accompanies the film "Schindler's List (1993)". This guide will also work well as a sub plan for your substitute teacher.

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PRE-VIEWING - Students have 20 minutes to complete this part, which will be followed on with a class discussion and sharing answers. There are 4 questions based around concentration camps, the Nazi Party, the persecution of Jews and about Jews having to wear the yellow badge. Example answers included.

PART 1 – Comprehension questions. I have made two sets of questions depending on how much of a challenge you want to give the students. Answer keys included.

• 55 questions in chronological order.

• 35 questions in chronological order (20 questions removed from the 55 question set)

PART 2 –Discussion questions. Example answers included

• There are 5 long answer higher level questions for the students to complete and later discuss together as a class.

PART 3 – Mini essays

• Students to imagine they are in the position of three people (a Jew hiding in the ghetto, Mrs. Schindler and a German soldier) each with a different experience to share. They are to write their thoughts and feelings about what happened during the day of the ghetto massacre:

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Based on the novel Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally, the film follows the incredible true story of German businessman Oskar Schindler. Trying to make his fortune during the Second World War by exploiting cheap Jewish labor, Schindler soon realizes the fate of the Jews becomes more and more clear and his motivations soon switch from profit to human sympathy, saving many Jews from the Holocaust.

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