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Mean Creek written and
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A lean, uncompromisingly
honest film about teenagers trying to get revenge on a bully and then facing
the consequences of a prank gone wrong.
Ideal both for film study and for moral education, in spite of
pervasive use of bad language. Only 87
minutes long. |
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Contents
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Teaching Guide |
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Study Guide |
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Introduction |
3 |
Introduction |
2 |
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Suggested teaching plan |
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Initial Quiz |
3 |
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Initial Quiz Answers |
6 |
Analysing the Plot |
4 |
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Plot Summary |
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Conflict Task Sheet |
5 |
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Analysing the Plot |
9 |
Narrative Structure Task Sheet |
6 |
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Conflict Task Sheet Answers |
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Film Technique Checklist |
8 |
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Narrative Structure Answers |
12 |
Close Reading Task Sheets |
10 |
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Analysing the Screenplay |
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Design, Setting and Cinematography |
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Scene by Scene commentary
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Characterisation Checklist |
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Close Reading the Text Task Sheets
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28 |
Characterisation Tasks |
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Scene Analysis: Opening Sequence |
38 |
Useful Quotations |
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Scene Analysis: 'George's rap'
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Scene List |
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Scene Analysis: 'Truth or Dare' |
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Cast List
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22 |
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Design, Setting and
Cinematography |
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The Complex
Makeup of a Movie
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23 |
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Characters and Actors |
50 |
Glossary of Film Terms |
24 |
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Themes |
56 |
Write-on
Worksheets
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Writing the Screenplay |
58 |
Study Record |
27 |
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Quotation Test |
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Plot Outline |
28 |
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Word Search Answers |
61 |
Analysing the Screenplay |
29 |
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Interesting Facts and Trivia |
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Close Analysis Worksheets |
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Music |
63 |
Word Search |
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Unit outline |
64 |
Scene-by-Scene Worksheets |
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