Pom Poko Movie Guide Questions & Worksheet

This Pom Poko Movie Guide Questions & Worksheet helps Grades 6 to 8 students analyze how a seemingly playful animated film turns urban expansion, environmental loss, and collective resistance into a sharp social satire. As the raccoon clans respond to the destruction of Tama Hills, students trace how humor, folklore, grief, and strategy work together across the film.

This packet gives you flexible ways to teach a full-length film without losing instructional time: use the pre- and post-movie discussion prompts to build purpose before viewing, pause at key time stamps for guided writing and conversation, or assign the written guide after the film for review and deeper analysis.

Engaging questions include scene-based, time-stamped prompts, reflection questions, and a multiple-choice quiz for easy differentiation. It works well for whole-class viewing, independent response, film study, seminar-style conversation, or guided small-group discussion.

Check the thumbnail images for sample questions to see if this movie guide is suitable for your students.

Film Summary:

As forests and farmland disappear under the construction of Tama New Town, the raccoon clans of the hills try sabotage, shape-shifting study, public spectacle, and open protest in an effort to save their home. The film becomes a layered story about environmental change, tradition, competing strategies, compromise, and what survival costs when a community can no longer live as it once did.

Parental Guidance:

Rated PG. Teachers can expect fantasy conflict, mature thematic material about development and loss, stylized transformation humor, and scenes of death and despair, but no graphic realism. See details on IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110008/parentalguide/

Perfect For:

• Grades 6-8 environmental and ELA units
• Urbanization and ecological-loss discussions
• Folklore, satire, and tone-shift analysis
• Community response and compromise themes
• Whole-film discussion about survival and change

Skills Addressed:

• Cause and effect
• Character and group motivation
• Tone shifts
• Theme development
• Vocabulary in context
• Discussion
• Whole-film synthesis

What's Included: (a zip file with)

Student Worksheet

• Google Slides/PPTX Print Version (Toner Tip! Print 2 Slides/Page)
• Google Slides/PPTX Digital Version
• Self-Graded Multiple Choice Quiz (30 Questions | Easy Language)
  • Digital Version (Google Forms)
  • Print Version (can be derived from the Answer Key not Self-Graded)

Teacher's Guide & Lesson Plan

• Pre & Post Movie Discussion Questions (themes, schema-building)
• Lesson Plan Options A, B, and C (3-day, 4-day, and 5-day pacing)
• Worksheet Answer Key + CCSS Alignment
• Multiple Choice Quiz Answer Key
• CCSS Alignment + Admin Movie Request + Parent/Guardian Permission Slip (2 Pages)
  

(Note: All files formatted for seamless upload to your Google Drive if desired.)

Time & Tech:

Runtime: 119 minutes. Use this resource before, during, or after viewing. Print the worksheet or assign the Google Slides/PPTX digital version, and use the Google Forms multiple-choice quiz when you want a self-grading differentiation option.

DISCLAIMER: This product is an independently created worksheet and question set for classroom commentary and instruction. It is not affiliated with the film's creators or distributors, and it does not include the movie itself. Teachers should preview films for local policy fit.