Teaching Theme with Short Films
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Bring a little Disney magic into your Language Arts classroom with this bundle of products which uses a variety of Pixar clips and short films to teach various reading and writing skills. Your students will thank you for making literacy so engaging, and for the first time, they will think about moviPrice $29.25Original Price $32.50Save $3.25
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This lesson plan acts as an introduction to theme and how to write theme statements. It teaches that theme is the message of the story, and not just one-word thematic concepts like "love" and "loss." References to Pixar and Pixar videos are woven throughout the lesson to optimize student engagement and understanding. Students practice turning the thematic concept of loss in the Toy Story trilogy into a more detailed theme statement, and they conclude the lesson by practicing writing theme statements for various Pixar shorts.
Purchase of this lesson includes a downloadable .pdf with links to a 16-slide Google slideshow, a fill-in-the-blank note-taking device for students to complete as the slideshow is being presented, a document called "Pixar Short Films: Theme Practice" and a key for that document. The key provides a short summary of each Pixar film on the document and potential themes students could pull from each film.
What people are saying about this product:
"This was a great resource to use with my students to support their learning during the school closure. I liked that I could give them the slides to help reinforce the topic of theme. I actually did a screencastify with the slides to help them. I had high engagement from my students for this activity and I will be using it again in the future."
"Great and engaging resource for my 8th graders for them to get to thinking about a theme which can be a difficult topic to grasp and beyond those one-word topics. They really enjoyed these clips especially the shorts. "
"Excellent resource. The topic matter really engaged my class and helped them deepen their understanding of theme. Thanks you."
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