The Greatest Showman Movie Viewing Guide and Worksheets (Entrepreneurship)

Add an element of fun to your entrepreneurship unit with this “The Greatest Showman” Movie Viewing Guide and Worksheets!

This movie can be used as a review of the principles of entrepreneurship and small business ownership and the viewing guide is designed to help insure that students are paying attention and thinking about the information presented in the film.

The Pre-Screening Guide should be completed before viewing the film. The Viewing Guide splits the movie into four parts. (The parts are labeled for you on the Viewing Guide.) Once your students have completed the Movie Viewing Guide, they can move on to the one page Worksheet.

On the worksheet, your students will analyze the content of the movie in regards to economics topics such as entrepreneurship, business, investments, and small businesses.

How the Lesson Works:
★ The Pre-Screening Guide with basic questions about entrepreneurship.
★ The Viewing Guide that is split into four labeled sections.
★ The Post-Screening Guide that ties in entrepreneurship and the content of the film.

What is Included:
★ A Google Slides document that hosts all worksheets and the viewing guide
★ A Google Forms Version of the Movie Guide, Pre-Screening Activity, and worksheet are included.
★ Both the Slides and Google Forms can be customized to meet your specific needs.

Plot Summary:
Orphaned, penniless, but ambitious and with a mind crammed with imagination and fresh ideas, the American entertainer, Phineas Taylor Barnum, will always be remembered as the man with the gift to blur the line between reality and fiction. Thirsty for innovation and hungry for success, the son of a tailor manages to open a wax museum; however, he soon shifts focus to the unique and the peculiar, introducing extraordinary, never-seen-before live acts on the circus stage. Now, some people call Barnum’s rich collection of oddities, an outright freak show; but, when Phineas, obsessed for cheers and respectability, gambles everything on the opera singer, Jenny Lind, to appeal to a high-brow audience, he will lose sight of the most crucial aspect of his life: his family. Will Barnum, the greatest showman, risk it all to be accepted?

Required Materials:
★ The Greatest Showman DVD or Streaming Capabilities