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THANKSGIVING Writing Short Films Inference Theme Plot Text Structures

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Description

Guaranteed fun learning with this Thanksgiving animated short film workshop, SALT. Students practice inference, theme, conflict, setting, and dialogue. Writing tasks allow students to practice text structures while creating recipes, dialogue, stories and a TURKEY PARDONING ACTIVITY.

❤ SHORT FILM SYNOPSIS: A young aspiring chef makes a lovely pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving dinner, but accidentally uses salt instead of sugar. His family's reaction is priceless!

LITERARY DEVICES:

❤ Making Inferences

❤ Setting

❤ Theme

❤ Dialogue

❤ Conflict

❤ Text Structures

TEXT STRUCTURES AND THANKSGIVING PROMPT TOPICS:

CULMINATING WRITING ACTIVITY

Students learn 5 text structures and an easy plot summary. Each text structure has a writing prompt. Students can choose the prompt for which they would like to respond. Or, you can choose the prompt(s) you would like to assign.

Prompts are highly engaging and relate to Thanksgiving.

Problem and solution: Pardoning A Turkey Letter?

Sequence: Make a Thanksgiving Recipe

Description: Describe a favorite holiday memory or tell a story

Compare/Contrast: Favorite and least favorite Thanksgiving dish

Cause and effect: Relate something you are grateful for and describe the effect it has had on you

Plot Summary: Students use the 5 easy questions to create a plot summary

ACTIVITIES:

  • Interactive questions and activities for inference, theme, conflict, and
  • Video link to watch directly on slides
  • Sample answers for everything
  • Moveable pieces to reveal some answers
  • Inspiring vocabulary activity

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27 Including ANSWER KEYS
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Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text; summarize the text.
Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., a character’s thoughts, words, or actions).
Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text.
Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., how characters interact).
Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

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