Description
Do you want your students engaged in high-interest pop culture analysis activities? This resource includes 15 lesson plans for short films, video games, TV shows, and songs to analyze in English class that are easy for you and super fun for students!
We are so excited for you to use these pop culture lessons with your students! Each 45-minute lesson is skills-based, so it’s easy to integrate a text here and there in your existing curriculum. These alternative text types (short films, video games, TV episodes, and songs to analyze in English class) get your students thinking about analysis in new ways. Using pop culture in ELA is a great way to HOOK all learners.
Your Pop Culture Analysis Resource Includes:
🎵 15 short texts (see the titles below)
📽️ 15 easy-to-implement standards-aligned lesson plans
📺 Options for discussion strategies
🎮 Editing capabilities to personalize & differentiate
This resource also includes the first digital escape game of Terminus and a week of Poetry Bell Ringers.
Each Pop Culture Analysis lesson plan includes…
✨ Background information on the short text
✨ Any pre-knowledge (if applicable)
✨ An objective to guide their learning
✨ An anticipatory activity
✨ A group analysis
✨ A wrap-up activity
✨ Extension ideas to continue the learning
Why is this Pop Culture Analysis resource worth it?
✨ Students practice digital literacy in a standards-aligned yet engaging manner
✨ Hours of research poured in to ensure your short texts are appropriately picked
✨ BONUS! These lessons make for PERFECT, ready-to-go emergency sub day plans
What teachers like you are saying about our other digital literacy activities:
Your Pop Culture Analysis Resource Includes:
🎵 15 short texts (see the titles below)
📽️ 15 easy-to-implement standards-aligned lesson plans
📺 Options for discussion strategies
🎮 Editing capabilities to personalize & differentiate
This resource also includes the first digital escape game of Terminus and a week of Poetry Bell Ringers.
The 15 Pop Culture Analysis Texts Included:
⭐ “The Blind Bandit” from Avatar, The Last Airbender – TV episode
⭐ Subnautica’s opening scene – video game
⭐ “Burning House” by Cam – song
⭐ Horizon Zero Dawn’s opening scene – video game
⭐ “Sound the Bells” by Dessa – song
⭐ “Lock Up” by Blood Cut Films – short film
⭐ “Bao” by Disney’s Pixar – short film
⭐ “Paused Play” taken by Danielle Hall – photo
⭐ Chapter 1: Reveil from Terminus – digital escape room
⭐ Poetry bell ringers sample – poems & songs
⭐ “Poor Unfortunate Souls” by Disney’s The Little Mermaid – song
⭐ “The Rashomon Job” from Leverage – TV episode
⭐ “Be Preapred” by Disney’s The Lion King – song
⭐ “Lifted” by Disney’s Pixar – short film
⭐ “Dear Mama” by 2Pac & “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes – song & poem
Your Pop Culture Analysis resource will download in a .zip file. The lesson plans, bell ringers, and worksheet will be available in both PDF and an editable Google versions (lesson plans are editable via Google Docs while the worksheet and bell ringers are editable via Google Slides).
In the Teacher’s Guide, you will find instructions on how to create a copy of the resources. Please email me if you have any questions! 🙂
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-Danielle @Nouvelle_ELA
