Tuesday, October 31, 2017

The Sword in the Stone: Movie Worksheets

(Movie Worksheets)

Google drive folder Here

Worksheets:
Part 1 (docs, pub), Part 2 (docs, pub), Part 3 (docs, pub), Part 4 (docs, pub), Part 5 (docs, pub), Part 6 (docs, pub), Part 7 (docs, pub), Part 8 (docs, pub), Part 9 (docs, pub), Part 10 (docs, pub), Part 11 (docs, pub), Part 12 (docs, pub), Part 13 (docs, pub), Part 14 (docs, pub)

Slideshow (1-2 only):
Part 1 (slides, pub), Part 2 (slides, pub)

Explanation:
More movie worksheets.  (For an explanation of why I think it's useful to use movies in the classroom, see here,  here, and here.)
As I wrote at the end of the Princess Mononoke post, my new job has required me to cut these worksheets down to the bare minimum.  So they are just the script and the missing words.

In my class, I use the following stages.
1) I hand out the worksheet.  I check the meaning of the words in the box by saying the definitions (in the mixed up order) and the students yell out the word.
2) We watch the movie one time with the lights off
3) I turn on the lights.  The students try to write in the missing words in the script
4) We watch the movie a second time with the lights on.  The students check their answers.  I pause the movie after each answer to check that everyone got the right answer.

Other notes:
I used this website here as the basis for the script, although I corrected it wherever I thought it was in error.
I tried to stick to 3 pages of script per lesson.  This was 3 pages as measured by the raw words (i.e. before I put in the numbers and the blanks).  Sometimes after putting in the numbers and the blanks, the script would spill over into page 4.
Because I was breaking the script up by page length, and not by natural breaks in the movie, often the movie worksheets stops and starts at odd moments.
But in practice, when I was actually showing the movie, I would play enough to give contexts.  (i.e. I would start the movie at the beginning of the scene each time, even if the movie worksheet only started halfway through that scene.)

The first couple worksheets I made where while I was reading Implementing the Lexical Approach, and I initially tried to incorporate some of the ideas from The Lexical Approach into these movie worksheets--drawing students attention to groups of words that are used as a set lexical phrase.
However, I soon got overloaded with other stuff at my work, and had to drop this.  (It didn't take very much extra time, but when you're busy, every little bit counts).
And so I went back to the bare minimalist approach.
This is why only the first two worksheets have accompanying slideshows.

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