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Book vs Movie Worksheet (free printable)

Posted on Last updated: May 17, 2022

Book vs Movie Worksheet (free printable)

One of the great debates from young children through adults is which one is better, your favorite book or the movie version? This book vs movie worksheet pack is a great way to compare important characters, story lines, and important scenes. It is a great opportunity for an in depth discussion or even a debate.

These no prep resources include a chart and a graphic organizer (a venn diagram). Students can use them independently or in a small group to compare and contrast the main content of the book vs the film version.

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Questions to Ask about the Book vs Movie

  • How is the main character different in the book versus on the big screen?
  • Which characters showed up in the movie that weren’t in the book?
  • Are there any small differences between the setting of the book and the setting of the movie?
  • What did you think of the ending of the movie? Was it the same ending that was in the book?
  • Are there any extra problems in the book or movie versions of the story that you weren’t expecting.
  • Did you imagine the characters to look the way they did in the movie?
  • If you could make one change to the movie version, what would it be?
  • Do you think the author of the book and the director of the movie collaborated?

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Popular Children’s Books that are also movies

The Wonder book is a popular choice to be read by teachers and students across the country to spread the message of acceptance and kindness. Use the book vs movie worksheets to compare the two versions and vote to see which one is liked better. You can use these extra Wonder Lesson Plans to extend student learning.

Charlie and The Chocolate Factory

How does Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl differ from the movie? There are a few different movies to choose from to compare to the book. I recommend watching the movie you choose before you play it for your class of 3rd graders on up.

Many children have seen the movie Holes, but have not read the book. Louis Sachar is the brilliant author of this book and he also wrote the Wayside series. This is a popular book and movie for fourth graders and fifth graders.

There are many versions of Pinnocchio the movie to compare the book or story to. Go on an adventure with the puppet that comes to life. 

Follow Sophie and the Big Friendly Giant to convince the Queen to help them get rid of the other mean giants once and for all. 

A fascinating story about a young girl who uses her powers to deal with her family and her kind teacher. 

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

The queen sets out to destroy Lucy and her siblings in this book by C.S. Lewis. That is the main focus of the story although there are other problems along the way that the children face. 

Harry Potter

A very popular series of books turned into movies that have been enjoyed by many!

101 Dalmatians

There is an animated film produced by Disney of 101 Dalmations. Then in 1996 a realistic movie was released. Cruella is another movie that is a prequel to 101 Dalmations, but it has very little to do with the original book and story. 

The Wizard of Oz

There are 17 versions of the Wizard of Oz since the first story in 1900.

Alice in Wonderland

There are three films to choose from to compare to this beloved book. 

Mary Poppins

There are two movie versions of Mary Poppins, one from 1964 and one from 2018.

Little Women

Since the novel was published in 1968, there have been so many versions of Little Women created. Check out Oprah’s List of all of the Little Women adaptations created. 

The Jungle Book

There are four different movies made of The Jungle Book. There are many differences between the book and the movie. 

Call of the Wild

The Call of the Wild by Jack London is an adventurous story about a dog that was taken from his home. 

Charlotte’s Web

There are animated and real life versions of Charlotte’s Web to choose from. Follow the adventures of Wilbur and his friend Charlotte. 

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

A popular chapter book series turned into movies. These movies are rated PG. 

Harriet the Spy

Harriet the Spy was written by Louise Fitzhugh and published in 1964. It was turned into a movie in 1996.

How to Train Your Dragon

How to Train Your Dragon is a series of 12 books. There are 3 films that go with these books. 

Mr. Popper’s Penguins

Mr. Popper (played by Jim Carrey in the movie) is a story about a man that gets a final gift from his father, a penguin!

Pippi Longstocking

There are four original Pippi Longstocking movies that follow this adorable girl through her adventures. 

The Polar Express

A popular story and movie at Christmas time that kids of all ages enjoy. 

Stuart Little

The Littles go to the orphanage to adopt a new member of their family and decide on Stuart who is a mouse. 

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Download the Free Book vs Movie Worksheets

Whether you are a teacher that is leading your class through a book study and comparing it to a movie or a family that has a movie night of a book they just read, these book vs movie worksheets are sure to get the thinking and discussion started.

Review: Made by a solo Coen brother, ‘Drive-Away Dolls’ is trashy fun and exceedingly disposable

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It’s fascinating that Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke, longtime filmmaking collaborators and spouses, and the creative team behind the exploitation flick “Drive-Away Dolls,” have repeatedly — and lovingly — described their new film as “trashy” in interviews. It’s a way of nodding to influences like the “Pope of Trash” himself, John Waters , and titillating B-movie king Russ Meyer . Or perhaps it’s a way to get ahead of, and away from, certain expectations tied to Coen and his former filmmaking partner, his brother Joel. This ain’t your daddy’s “No Country for Old Men,” after all.

“Drive-Away Dolls” rather excitedly asserts a space that one could call “a country for young lesbians,” if one were so inclined. The film itself is a “queering” of the ’90s crime caper, the kind of sardonic, ironic, muscular and oh-so-masculine film that the Coen brothers and their contemporaries (Quentin Tarantino, Guy Ritchie, et al.), popularized some three decades ago, birthing generations of film bros.

Coen and Cooke wrote the film together and essentially co-directed, though only Coen is credited as the director, with Cooke as editor (she also edited “The Big Lebowski” and “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” with the brothers). The script, written some 20-odd years ago, originated from Cooke’s queer youth in New York City’s lesbian bars and has been sitting on the back burner for years. The 1999 setting of these events is at once a reflection of the script’s age, and an inadvertent throwback to the kinds of movies it references. With its rapid-fire deadpan dialogue, low canted angles, detached, ironic violence and kooky transitional wipes, it feels self-consciously retro, even if it was, at one time, intended to be contemporary.

The plot centers around an odd couple of friends: Jamie (Margaret Qualley), an amorous lesbian Lothario, and Marian (Geraldine Viswanathan), a buttoned-up office worker, who decide to drive to Tallahassee, Fla., when Jamie catches too much heat for cheating on her cop ex, Sukie (Beanie Feldstein). The friends opt for a cheap “drive-away” rental car and are accidentally given a vehicle with a secret stash in the trunk, sparking a chase across state lines involving a senatorial sex scandal. And though they’ve got two bumbling henchmen in pursuit, these gal pals live, laugh and lady-love their way through every sapphic saloon south of the Mason-Dixon line.

Three women stand outside a bar.

It’s “Pulp Fiction” with dildos, and it’s unabashedly horny and female pleasure-centric. Yet, one can’t ignore the nagging sense, at times, that “Drive-Away Dolls” just feels like the lesbian porn parody of a dude-heavy crime comedy. A basement make-out party hosted by a women’s soccer team is just a little too far-fetched, but then again, so is the supremely silly sex scandal that animates the entire plot. The film is often crude in a way that’s cringe-worthy, but it’s also stacked with jokes and moves at such a brisk pace (it’s barely 85 minutes) that it’s over before you know what hit you.

Qualley and Viswanathan are fantastically committed and charismatic, with the former demonstrating a capacity for broad comedy. Viswanathan is lethally precise in her line deliveries. But open the hood of the story and it turns out this beater is a lemon: The mechanics of the plot simply aren’t there. How or even why are these two friends? Colman Domingo growls appealingly as some sort of crime boss, but who is his character? What are the stakes of this scandal and why should we care? Does plot device A insert into story element B? Maybe not, and maybe no one cares if this jumble of amusing parts makes a coherent whole.

The slight and scanty “Drive-Away Dolls” could dissipate with a gust of wind, but it beats a hasty getaway before that becomes a problem. While its story fails to justify its own existence, it delivers what it says on the tin: dumb, randy fun, even if that feels retrograde in more ways than one.

Katie Walsh is a Tribune News Service film critic.

'Drive-Away Dolls'

Rating: R, for crude sexual content, full nudity, language and some violent content Running time: 1 hour, 24 minutes Playing: In wide release Friday, Feb. 23

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SUBJECTS — Science Fiction;

SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING — Breaking Out; Alcohol and Drug Abuse; Human Rights; Brothers; Friendship; Suicide;

MORAL-ETHICAL EMPHASIS — Respect; Fairness.

AGE ; 14+; Rated PG-13 for brief violent images, language, and some sexuality;

Drama; 1997; 101 minutes; Color.

THE BEST OF TWM

One of the Best! This movie is on TWM’s list of the ten best movies to supplement classes in Science, High School Level.

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Benefits of the Movie Possible Problems Parenting Points Selected Awards & Cast

Helpful Background Discussion Questions Social-Emotional Learning

Moral-Ethical Emphasis Assignments and Projects Links to the Internet

MOVIE WORKSHEETS & STUDENT HANDOUTS

TWM offers the following movie worksheets to keep students’ minds on the film and to focus their attention on the lessons to be learned from the movie.

Film Study Worksheet for ELA Classes ; and

Worksheet for Cinematic and Theatrical Elements and Their Effects .

Teachers can modify the worksheets to fit the needs of each class.

DESCRIPTION

The film takes place in a genetically engineered “not too distant future.” Fertilized embryos are selected and altered for intelligence, strength, resistance to disease, and physical appearance. (The genetic counselor tells parents “It’s still you, simply the best of you.”) Children conceived in the normal way, “faith babies,” are treated as second class citizens and relegated to menial jobs.

“Gattaca” is a multifaceted film. It’s the story of Vincent, a “faith baby” with strong will power who dreams of exploring space but lives in a world where only the genetically enhanced can be astronauts. Undaunted, Vincent pursues his dream in the only way possible. Jerome is the opposite. Blessed with the improvements offered by genetic engineering, he is unable to cope with the disappointments of life. “Gattaca” is also a murder mystery. Vincent gets caught up in the investigation surrounding the killing of his superior at work, a man who opposed the mission that Vincent has been scheduled to take. Is Vincent the murderer? Will the investigation expose Vincent as an “in-valid” and a “de-gene-erate?”

SELECTED AWARDS & CAST

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Selected Awards:

1998 Academy Awards: Best Art Direction-Set Decoration; 1998 Golden Globe Awards Nominations: Best Original Score – Motion Picture.

Featured Actors:

Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Jude Law, and Gore Vidal.

Andrew Niccol.

BENEFITS OF THE MOVIE

This film allows the viewer to work through some of the ethical implications of a society that manipulates human genes to enhance the genetic characteristics of newborns. Due to advances in genetic engineering, society will have to face this issue in the 21st century.

POSSIBLE PROBLEMS

SERIOUS. One of the main characters commits suicide, and it takes some serious thinking to understand that the film’s philosophy is critical of this action. On one occasion, the hero of the film is cornered and brutally beats a police officer by punching, head-butting and kicking him.

The two most sympathetic characters drink alcohol to excess on several occasions. There is scattered profanity (two “f…” words, a few scatological references and mild obscenities). We are shown the very bloody, pulpy head of a murder victim, surrounded by a pool of blood. People are shown in bed before and after sexual intercourse but there is no nudity and there are no sexually suggestive movements.

PARENTING POINTS

Tell your child that soon genetic engineering will be able to cure disease and also to make normal people stronger, taller, better looking etc. Ask what he or she thinks about that and then ask and help your child to answer the Quick Discussion Question. If your child is interested, go through some of the other Discussion Questions.

TeachWithMovies.org recommends that every child in any family in which there is any history of heavy drinking or alcohol abuse be taken to an open AA meeting beginning at the age of 12 or 13. This should be repeated every year or so. Some meetings are divided into two parts. Try to stay for the second part. That’s when specially selected speakers talk about the difficulties they encountered while intoxicated and their new lives in sobriety. Tell the kids that if they ever have trouble with alcohol, the twelve steps of AA are a way that they can avoid the destructive effects of alcoholism. For more information, see Handout on Alcohol and How it Affects Us .

HELPFUL BACKGROUND

“Gattaca” was made in 1997. Since that time, almost the entire human genome has been catalogued and discoveries in the field of bioengineering are occurring so quickly that any description of where science stands in this area would almost immediately be out-of-date. Scientists are now talking about cloning human beings as a serious possibility and the ethical questions involved are of immediate and pressing urgency. This film is an excellent device to get children thinking about the implications of the advances in biotechnology.

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

1. See Discussion Questions for Use With any Film that is a Work of Fiction .

2. Compare Jerome and Vincent. What were their strengths and their weaknesses? In what ways were they the mirror image of each other?

3. Was Jerome mentally ill?

4. Compare Anton and Vincent, the two brothers. How was Vincent able to beat Anton at swimming despite Vincent’s weak heart?

5. Why is there such resistance to the new order imposed by this society? (Examples are: Vincent’s girlfriend and the test technician.)

6. What do you think is wrong with the society portrayed in “Gattaca”?

7. Wouldn’t every parent want to ensure that their child was perfect and had the attributes of physical attractiveness, intelligence and athletic prowess to be able to do whatever he or she wanted in life? If so, why is the society portrayed in this film so devoid of happiness, vitality and fun?

8. What made Vincent able to qualify for the Saturn mission despite his physical infirmities and lack of genetic perfection?

9. If you were the president of a corporation that could hire genetically enhanced individuals, would you do so? If you didn’t, how could you compete with corporations that did hire only the genetically improved? What are the implications of this for our future?

10. Most parents will tell you that children are born with their own peculiar personality. This can be affected by events in the child’s life, but there is definitely a strong, if not overriding genetic component. We may, in the future, be able to modify these characteristics, just as physical characteristics and intelligence could be modified. What are the implications of this?

11. Some people have countered the vision of this film by saying that our strengths are inextricably combined with our weaknesses. Do you agree with this?

12. Soon, life insurance companies, health insurance companies, employers, and the government will have the tools to predict our future health. Is this too much information for them to have? Is there any way to stop it?

13. The character of the Director (the murderer) told the investigators that there was no indication of violence in his genetic make-up. What were the screenwriters trying to tell us by this scene?

14. What were the screenwriters trying to tell us through the episode of the 12 fingered pianist? What is wrong with engineering children to have 12 fingers if, as a result, they will be able to make extraordinarily beautiful music?

15. What limits should be placed on genetic engineering? Should it be allowed at all? Should it be limited to the elimination of disease and physical imperfections?

16. Should we permit people to make human clones of themselves? What about someone who cannot have a child?

17. Should we permit people to make human clones of other people?

18. If you would permit human cloning, would the clones have all the rights of “natural” people?

19. Was Vincent justified in brutally beating the police officer outside of the nightclub?

1. Jerome committed suicide at the end of this film. What was the screenwriter’s purpose in showing this end to this character?

Suggested Response:

That a future in which human attributes are left to chance is emotionally, morally, and spiritually bankrupt.

BREAKING OUT

2. Is it true that you are more than the sum of your genes?

3. Which did Anton have more allegiance to his caste of genetically enhanced beings or his brother?

4. Were Vincent and Jerome friends by the end of the film?

ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE

See the Handout on Alcohol and How it Affects Us

5. What was the role of alcohol in the destruction of Jerome’s personality?

MORAL-ETHICAL EMPHASIS (CHARACTER COUNTS)

Discussion Questions Relating to Ethical Issues will facilitate the use of this film to teach ethical principles and critical viewing. Additional questions are set out below.

(Treat others with respect; follow the Golden Rule; Be tolerant of differences; Use good manners, not bad language; Be considerate of the feelings of others; Don’t threaten, hit or hurt anyone; Deal peacefully with anger, insults, and disagreements)

1. What is a caste system? Describe the caste system in Gattaca. Give some examples of caste systems in other societies that have actually existed.

(Play by the rules; Take turns and share; Be open-minded; listen to others; Don’t take advantage of others; Don’t blame others carelessly)

2. Was the society described in this film one in which fairness was a value? What problems were caused by the failure of society to promote fairness?

ASSIGNMENTS, PROJECTS & ACTIVITIES

See Assignments, Projects, and Activities for Use With any Film that is a Work of Fiction .

CCSS ANCHOR STANDARDS

Multimedia: Anchor Standard #7 for Reading (for both ELA classes and for History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Classes). (The three Anchor Standards read: “Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media, including visually and quantitatively as well as in words.”) CCSS pp. 35 & 60. See also Anchor Standard # 2 for ELA Speaking and Listening, CCSS pg. 48.

Reading: Anchor Standards #s 1, 2, 7 and 8 for Reading and related standards (for both ELA classes and for History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Classes). CCSS pp. 35 & 60.

Writing: Anchor Standards #s 1 – 5 and 7- 10 for Writing and related standards (for both ELA classes and for History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Classes). CCSS pp. 41 & 63.

Speaking and Listening: Anchor Standards #s 1 – 3 (for ELA classes). CCSS pg. 48.

Not all assignments reach all Anchor Standards. Teachers are encouraged to review the specific standards to make sure that over the term all standards are met.

LINKS TO THE INTERNET

The reviews of this film are especially helpful. See for example:

  • Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times
  • Scott Rosenberg in Salon

This Learning Guide was last updated on July 21, 2011.

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LEARNING GUIDE MENU:

Benefits of the Movie Possible Problems Parenting Points Selected Awards & Cast Helpful Background Discussion Questions Social-Emotional Learning Moral-Ethical Emphasis Assignments and Projects Links to the Internet

MOVIE WORKSHEETS:

Quick discussion question:.

If we were able to exclude the eccentric, the different, the misfits, and the weak, what would happen to society?

Society would become uninteresting and sterile and there would be less innovation if everyone were the same. Just look at the food. What would life be like without Italian food, Mexican food, Middle Eastern food, or Chinese food? It is very often the person who is different, who sees things a little differently, that will invent something or forge new ways for society to see itself. Jesus was considered by most to be a misfit. It was the Pharisees who were the “popular people” of his day. The Buddha was a prince but rejected it all for religious contemplation. And what about the next genetic innovation in mankind that perfects us, and makes us better? How would a society that can engineer genetic innovation treat that person? Chances are the mutation would be treated as a birth defect and eliminated. The beneficial nature of differences among people is an important concept for teenagers who are often slaves to conformity or miserable because they cannot conform.

BUILDING VOCABULARY:

“de-gene-erate”, “valid”, “in-valid”, “faith baby”, “genetic engineering.”

Attendance at an open AA meeting is an excellent extra-credit activity. Some meetings are divided into two parts. Tell the kids to ask permission to stay for the second part. That’s when specially selected speakers talk about the difficulties they encountered while intoxicated and their new lives in sobriety.

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‘Lumumba: Death of a Prophet’: Revisiting a Mythic Figure

The 1990 documentary about Patrice Lumumba by Raoul Peck (“I Am Not Your Negro”), showing at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, looks and feels newly minted.

A black-and-white image shows a man wearing glasses, a suit and a sash sitting at a table with an assortment of glasses and plates.

By J. Hoberman

“If the prophet dies, so does the future,” the director Raoul Peck says early in “ Lumumba: Death of a Prophet .” The movie, a personal essay in the form of a history lesson, is as much a poem as it is a documentary.

Made in 1990 and showing for a week at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in a 4K restoration of the original 16-millimeter film, “Death of a Prophet” looks and feels newly minted.

Patrice Lumumba, the first democratically elected leader of the former Belgian Congo, was brought down after a few months in power by internecine rivalry, hysterical anti-Communism and imperialist greed. His fate was sealed in the post-independence ceremonies when he followed the patronizing speech by King Baudouin of Belgium with a blunt j’accuse, citing Belgian racism and “colonial oppression.”

A civil war ensued. With Belgian support, the mineral-rich Katanga province was encouraged by Belgian mining interests to secede, and the white-dominated Force Publique, the Belgian colonial army, revolted. Ridiculed and vilified in the Western press, Lumumba — who would be hailed by Malcolm X as “the greatest Black man who ever walked the African continent” — was killed in early 1961 after being undermined by the United Nations and betrayed by his allies, including his successor, the strongman Joseph-Désiré Mobutu .

For Peck, best known for his essayistic James Baldwin documentary “I Am Not Your Negro,” made in 2017, Lumumba is a mythic figure . Peck spent his early childhood in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where, as Francophones, his Haitian parents had been recruited to bolster the post-independence professional class.

As noted by Stephen Holden, who reviewed “Death of a Prophet” in The New York Times when the movie was shown during the 1992 New York Film Festival, Peck “boldly” inserts himself into the film. He not only narrates but often cites his mother’s account of events, puts the exorbitant fee charged by a British newsreel for a few minutes of footage in the context of a Congolese worker’s average salary and explains his last-minute cancellation of plans to film in Zaire, as Congo came to be called under Mobutu.

Consequently, much of the film is shot in snowy Brussels (never more white), and most of the interviews are with aging, often self-justifying Belgian witnesses. The least defensive as well as the liveliest is Serge Michel, a French Jew active in the Algerian liberation movement who served as Lumumba’s press attaché. When a newly arrived Western journalist asked for background material, Michel suggested he read Maurice Nadeau’s “History of Surrealism.”

Indeed, Peck follows suit with his unexpected juxtapositions, as when he scores a tour of Brussels’s Museum of Natural Sciences to Le Grand Kallé’s 1960 Pan-African hit “Indépendence Cha-Cha” or cuts from demeaning Art Deco sculptures of Black colonial subjects with cheerful monuments to the Belgian cartoon icon (and colonial explorer) Tintin. Densely edited but never impenetrable, “Death of a Prophet” is more economical and inventive filmmaking than Peck’s passionately overwrought biopic from 2001, “Lumumba.”

“What is there to say about a 30-year-old murder?” Peck asked in 1990. It has now been 63 years since Lumumba was killed and there’s still plenty to talk about. (Currently making the festival rounds, Johan Grimonprez’s expansive documentary “Soundtrack to a Coup d’État” elaborates on American complicity in Lumumba’s overthrow.)

Lumumba’s only grave, according to Peck, are the trees in the savanna riddled with bullet holes. The prophet’s death haunts us still.

Lumumba: Death of a Prophet

Through Feb. 29 at BAM Rose Cinemas in Brooklyn; bam.org .

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  6. Teach with Movies

    Click below for 20 Learning Guides for Alcohol & Drug Awareness Month. Each film recommended by TeachWithMovies.org contains lessons on life and positive moral messages. Our Guides and Lesson Plans show teachers how to stress these messages and make them meaningful for young audiences. Search hundreds of movies organized by subject that TWM ...

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    Pele 2021 Documentary Movie guide with Answer Key 2/23/ 21 Brazil worksheet TV-14 Created by El Jeffe's Movie Guides and More PELÉ - 2021, Documentary/Biography, 1h 49m - TV-14 This documentary feature tells the story of iconic footballer Pelé, his quest for perfection and the mythical status he attained.

  8. 1,099 FREE Movie Worksheets for Your ESL Classroom

    While some of BusyTeacher.org's 1,099 movie and video worksheets offer simple fill-in-the-blank or matching exercises, others provide frameworks for games and activities, encourage students to listen and answer questions about what happens in video clips, or even spark open-ended discussions about their favorite movies and shows.

  9. Film 21 Blackjack

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    Movie worksheets for ESL and elementary children. Learn English through movies and films. This collection of worksheets support all learner profiles (auditory, visual, kinaesthetic), whilst creating a fun learning experience for ESL, EFL, and ESOL kids. Free pdf pages to make class preparation easier, eslkidsworld's printable materials arm ...

  11. Movie Review Worksheet

    Available on the Plus Plan. A movie review worksheet for students to complete after watching a film. This teaching resource is a student activity movie review, allowing students the opportunity to write a paragraph describing the summary, while researching into the details of the movie such as production, genre, setting and the acting cast.

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  14. Showing a Movie in Class? Help Your Students Develop Active Viewing

    Use this lesson plan and worksheet to help your students practice their active viewing skills, no matter what movie they're watching! We've designed this lesson and activity for middle school, but it could also be great for upper elementary or even in a high school class. Feel free to adapt this lesson (and the included Google Doc movie guide ...

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    IMPORTANT: Due to the volume of movie sheets on this site I have moved them to a new domain, MovieSheets.com. You can access all of the old worksheets plus hundreds of new ones at this new site: https://www.moviesheets.com. This was done to keep this site more focused on science content. You can access all of the movie sheets and more at this ...

  17. Probability question from the movie 21

    The movie 21 is based on the true story of a group of MIT students who used card counting and other strategies to win at blackjack. While some aspects may be exaggerated for dramatic effect, the film does accurately portray the basics of card counting and the use of probability in blackjack. However, as with any Hollywood movie, some artistic ...

  18. Movies worksheets

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  19. Movie Worksheet: 21 Grams

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  20. Movie genres worksheets

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  21. Book vs Movie Worksheet (free printable)

    This book vs movie worksheet pack is a great way to compare important characters, story lines, and important scenes. It is a great opportunity for an in depth discussion or even a debate. These no prep resources include a chart and a graphic organizer (a venn diagram). Students can use them independently or in a small group to compare and ...

  22. 21 RIO MOVIE English ESL worksheets pdf & doc

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    Josh Brolin is known as a doting father and movie star of epic proportions, but above all, the man is a gifted wordsmith. Brolin - who plays Gurney Halleck in the Denis Villeneuve "Dune ...

  28. 'Lumumba: Death of a Prophet': Revisiting a Mythic Figure

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