Pachamama Movie Guide (PG - 2018) | Questions | Inca | Peru | Earth

This Pachamama (2018) Movie Guide challenges students to:

• Contrast the offerings of Tepulpai and Naïra during the Pachamama ceremony and analyze what their choices say about their characters.
• Discuss whether Tepulpai is selfish and provide examples from the movie to support the argument.
• Interpret the meaning behind the chasqui’s description of a “floating house,” “metal skin,” and “spitting fire” in relation to the Spanish invaders.
• Analyze how Tepulpai’s realization about taking things without permission begins to change his character and behavior.
• Explain why the shaman rewards Tepulpai with his drum and the title of “little shaman” and what it signifies about Tepulpai’s growth.
• Explore how Tepulpai and Naïra change each other throughout the movie and argue who experiences the greatest transformation.
• Evaluate the historical accuracy of Pachamama by selecting 4 topics, such as Inca religion, quipus, the Spanish conquest, and the cultural significance of gold, and comparing how these are depicted in the movie with researched facts about the Inca Empire.

Optionally: Ask students to listen for and define 6 Inca-related words used throughout the movie.

This resource is meant to supplement the viewing of this movie, see the IMDb listing by searching the movie title.

This resource consists of 11 high-level, short answer and essay questions that will do more than just ask your students to regurgitate information.

This product .zip file includes:
-An Answer Key w/ CCSS Alignment (5 Pages)
-A Student Movie Guide (5 Pages)
-A PDF with link to a Google Slides version (1 Page)
CCSS alignment, Admin Movie Request and Permission Slip (2 Pages)
-A free resources and ‘About’ section (8 Pages - Not included in the page count for this product)
**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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