Sense and Sensibility Movie Guide Questions & Worksheet (1995)

This Sense and Sensibility Movie Guide Questions & Worksheet helps Grades 9 to 12 students think critically about love, judgment, restraint, social pressure, and the choices people make when emotion and duty collide. As Elinor and Marianne Dashwood face disappointment, secrecy, and financial uncertainty, students reflect on maturity, loyalty, class expectations, and the balance between feeling deeply and thinking wisely.

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, homework, independent analysis, literature study, 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:

Sense and Sensibility follows the Dashwood sisters as Elinor and Marianne face financial insecurity, secrecy, disappointment, and competing ideas about what love should look like. Grounded in inheritance law and social pressure, the film explores how restraint, feeling, duty, and maturity shape the choices people make.

Parental Guidance:

Rated PG for mild thematic elements. See details on IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114388/parentalguide/

Perfect For:

• Grades 9-12 literature and film-study units
• Jane Austen adaptation work
• Love, restraint, and judgment discussions
• Class pressure and inheritance-law themes
• Character comparison and mature-choice analysis

Skills Addressed:

• Reading for evidence
• Character comparison
• Cause and effect
• Theme
• Discussion and argument
• Vocabulary in context
• Evidence-based judgment

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: 136 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.