Pan's Labyrinth: Zero Prep Student booklet

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Resource includes:

1. Character analysis
2. Themes
3. Social and historical context
4. Director and cinematic techniques
5. Quote index
6. Essay aides

Character analysis
A 23 page section which focuses on Ofelia, Vidal, Mercedes, Carmen, Ferreiro and the Faun.
Each character has an analysis sheet, an adjective continuum with character specific adjectives and their antonyms and a follow up writing task. There is an infinitive verb classification ask to build knowledge of the film and character specific vocabulary and evidence and a whole page dedicated to answering character relationship style questions. Plenty of room for writing practice and feedback.

Social and historical context
This section is centered around a reading task featuring texts on 1944, las mujeres, la resistencia, la dictadura, el olvido y el fascismo.

There is a pre-reading vocabulary builder and a post-reading comprehension question task as well as links to further independent study.

Following this a page on how to evaluate cultural and societal contexts includes evaluative language to be used in essays and a follow up task in which students try to place the message/opinion of the director and evaluate it with evidence from the film. They will do this in relation to el franquismo, la posguerra, la desigualdad, la rebelión, las mujeres y la obediencia.*

Director and cinematic techniques
This 13-page section starts with a working glossary of both cinematic and director techniques, students translate the words as they appear in the following pages.

We then take a tour of the sound used in the film, when it was used and for what purpose (all whilst building writing practice) and then an extended reading on director techniques with a follow up reading true/false/correct in Spanish style exam question.

Following that is a match-up of symbols and a nice activity on the fairytale elements in the film called Making a Fairytale. Each element described with a small reading and gap-fill exercise. Lastly, a section called Breaking a Fairytale will get students thinking about how the film diverges from the path set out by traditional fairytales.

If that wasn’t enough we then go on to explain the What/How/Why acronym and students will get the opportunity to practise their analysis skills using evidence from the film. A final section focuses on the use of allegory in the three Faun’s tests, an open ended task based on the allegory in the story Ofelia tells her younger brother in the womb and a final introductory task to essay writing.*

and more but I’ve hit the character limit on here.