A ready-to-teach, grades 6–10 film study for Wicked (2024) that blends lyric and dialogue analysis. Students investigate how labels, image, and power shape reputations, track character arcs through songs and scenes, and write evidence-based responses that separate rumor from reality. Perfect ForELA units on character, theme, point of view, and media/film literacyMusic/Drama classes analyzing lyrics as poetry and songs as narrativeSEL lessons on friendship, identity, and courageous truth-tellingC