Christmas Activities, Home Alone 2 Complete Movie Unit, Questions/Activities

Are you looking for a fast and free Christmas lesson for your teenage students that not only engages them during the holidays, but also connects standards and sparks a real-world service project to take their learning from the classroom to the community? Perhaps you need a sub plan during the holidays and a movie would make planning so much easier! This no prep, movie-viewing guide for Home Alone 2: Lost in New York has everything you need!

Student Experience: While students watch this all-time favorite Christmas movie, they will answer "text-based" questions on their printed or digital viewing guide. Following the film, you can choose to extend their learning by doing a deep dive into irony or cause and effect - both worksheets and answers are provided. Last, have students make text-to-world connections with the real-world service project inspired by the movie itself. Students review letter writing skills and write a letter to other children this season. Everything you need is included. What better to way to have a little Christmas fun AND cover some skills in those last few days before break!?! Go ahead... get cozy with some cocoa and a Christmas movie without sacrificing any learning.

Included:

- short answer questions with answers

- three types of irony chart with answers

- cause and effect graphic organizer with answers

- cute design and layout

- Common Core links

- super simple sub sheet

- real-world service project

- force copy link to the digital version for Google

Just press play! Everything is NO PREP -- print and go. You'll just need to grab a copy of the disc or find a online service that streams it.

Other Christmas resources for the secondary level are just a click away!

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Christmas Carols Interactive Sentence Structure Game

Christmas Memory Movie Viewing Guide

Christmas & Winter Language Coloring Pages

Christmas Carols Figurative Language Interactive Activity

Christmas Carol Movie Guide

Looking for more interesting and engaging movie guides to make showing film in class more rigorous? Check out the following titles:

Cyberbully

The Giver

Ransom of Red Chief

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Speak

The Hunger Games

Frankenstein

Beowulf

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Faulkner's Fast Five Blog

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Teaching Middle and High School English Facebook Group

Yearbook and Journalism Facebook Group

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Updated 2020