Elemental Movie Guide (PG - 2023)

This movie guide made for the movie Elemental challenges students to ponder the complexities of responsibility, ethical choices, and personal growth. Discuss Ember’s readiness to run the shop, her behavior under pressure, and what it reveals about self-control and customer relations. Explore Ember’s dilemma between listening to Wade or obeying her father. Reflect on the contrasting social skills of Wade and Ember, and what they teach about emotions and connections. Investigate the director’s techniques in revealing Ember and Wade’s relationship, and how it leads to discussions about friendship and respect. Discuss Ember’s personal growth, the themes of family expectations, love, and understanding. Finally, interpret the symbolism of Ember and her father’s bows, and the blue flame, as it relates to tradition, identity, and family bonds.

This resource consists of 14 high-level, short answer and essay questions that will do more than just ask your students to regurgitate information.

This product .zip file includes:

• A student movie guide, PDF print version (6 pages)
  *An answer key is included with this movie guide, however many answers will vary as students are encouraged to construct their own meaning from the characters’ dialogue and behavior. See the preview for samples.
  *A Google Slides Version of the Movie Guide
  *A generic, editable movie guide permission slip
  *CCSS alignment indicating standards met, PDF (1 page - see also preview image)
  **CCSS Note: I’ve taken the liberty of aligning certain reading standards with the act of consuming content via the movie instead. Although students are not reading they are asked to perform the same cognitive functions on the content that they consumed from the movie.

**Distance Learning Tips:

• Distribute the Google Slides version to each student
• Use the screen sharing tool on your group call software to play the movie
• Pause the movie at each question to give students time to write/discuss

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