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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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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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) - Movie Guide Questions + Activities

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This 7 page movie guide is for the movie 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade'

PART 1 - There are 30 comprehension questions in chronological order. It’s important that during the movie students make notes on important events.

PART 2 – This is about creativity by planning the rescue of Indy’s father from Castle Brunwald.

• On the first page the students need to figure out the secret password and then the combination code for the lock on Indy’s father’s door. The students can only go onto page 2 when they’ve got the password and code.
• On the second page, students need to draw their rescue route on the floor plan and mark with numbers any area where they need to deal with an obstacle, such as a guard.
• On the third page, students need to write a detailed rescue plan including what they do at each numbered point they marked on the floor plan.

When Indiana’s father suddenly goes missing while searching for the Holy Grail, Indy must follow in his father's footsteps and stop the Nazis. 

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Unbroken (2014) - Movie Questions + Activities - Answer Keys Included

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This 10 page movie guide accompanies the movie "Unbroken". 

This movie is about the early life of US Olympian Louis Zamperini, who, after a near-fatal plane crash in WWII spends a harrowing 47 days in a raft with two fellow crewmen before being caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp. During his capture he has to continue fighting for his life.

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The Book Thief (2013) - Movie Questions + Activities - Answer Key Inc

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This 6 page movie guide accompanies the movie "The Book Thief"

Part 1
There will be 37 comprehension questions in chronological order. It’s beneficial that during the movie they make notes on important events and the personalities of the main characters to help answer the questions.

Part 2
These are extension questions related to the movie or World War 2 in general in which the students have to imagine that they are really there:

• Explain what you do when a German office forces you to burn some books
• Write a diary entry for the first day living with a new family
• Write a runaway plan
• Design and draw a new air raid shelter
• Write about your celebration after the war has ended.

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The movie is about a young girl named Liesel. While subjected to the horrors of World War II Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. In the basement of her home, a Jewish refugee is being protected by her adoptive parents.

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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008) - Movie Questions + Activities - Answer Key included

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This 6 page movie guide accompanies the movie "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" 

Part 1

Students have 20 minutes to complete this part, which will be followed on with a class discussion and sharing answers. There are 6 questions based around concentration camps, the persecution of Jews and Adolf Hitler. 

Part 2

This has 23 comprehension questions in chronological order, and can be later expanded into a discussion about the Holocaust. It is best to get the students to write notes throughout the movie, but if time is limited can be used while watching instead.

Part 3

Creative Writing: Imagine that Bruno was caught by his father moments before going under the fence to meet up with Schmuel. The student's task is to write an alternative ending of what happens next. Include the father’s reaction towards Bruno and Schmuel:

The movie is about the son of a German officer named Bruno who meets a young Jewish boy named Shmuel, a prisoner in Auschwitz.

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