Collection: Film as Literature & Cinematic Arts — Full Year Curriculum Collection (36 Weeks, 8 Units)

Film as Literature & Cinematic Arts — Full Year Curriculum Collection (36 Weeks, 8 Units)

Bring film into every ELA block with this rigorous, media-rich program. Across eight units and 36 weeks, students analyze dystopian futures, heroic underdogs, Golden-Age and modern blockbusters, wartime courage, historical icons, literary classics, and Shakespeare adaptations. Day-by-day pacing aligns to printable and digital movie guides, comparative analyses, summative tasks, and four cinematic skill workshops. Videos are not included; verify streaming availability and follow your site permissions.

What's Included

• 45 student movie-guide slide decks with answer keys
• 23 comparative-essay prompts with rubrics
• 10 summative performance tasks
• Four hands-on workshops: Loglines, Plot-Point Mapping, Cinematography, Theme Tracking
• Year-at-a-Glance pacing, full Educator Planning Guide, Student Syllabus, Editable Parent Permission Pack
• Live-link movie purchase and rental spreadsheet, comprehensive standards-alignment matrix

Units at a glance

• Unit 1 — Dystopia and Environment
• Unit 2 — The Underdog
• Unit 3 — Golden-Age Blockbusters
• Unit 4 — Modern Crowd-Pleasers
• Unit 5 — War Movies
• Unit 6 — Historical Biographies
• Unit 7 — Literary Classics
• Unit 8 — Shakespeare in Movies

Representative titles

Examples include The Giver, 1984, The Maze Runner, City of Ember, The Karate Kid, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, Rudy, Greater, Edward Scissorhands, 12 Mighty Orphans, Gone With the Wind, Casablanca, It’s a Wonderful Life, The Man Who Invented Christmas, Gladiator, Forrest Gump, Avatar, The Blind Side, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, Midway, 1917, Temple Grandin, Lincoln, Invictus, Hamilton, 42, The Odyssey, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Outsiders, Romeo and Juliet (1968), Romeo + Juliet (1996), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Get Over It, Hamlet. Seasonal alternates are available for select units.

Standards alignment

Explicit coverage of CCRA.R.1–4, 7–8; CCRA.W.1–3, 7; CCRA.SL.1, SL.3; CCRA.L.4–5 across 180 class periods.

Digital or print workflow

• Digital: enable Drive → Settings → Convert uploads to Google Docs editor format; assign via Classroom
• Print: DOCX and PPTX are classroom-ready; print slide decks as handouts

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