I have been teaching Middle School and High School Social Studies for the past 38 years in the Minnesota public school system. I have also served as an adjunct professor teaching Social Studies Methods at North Dakota State University.
This study guide is made up of 50 questions, which are intended to help your students stay focused as they view the film. This study guide is also an excellent supplemental activity (formative assessment) to check for student understanding. It is a perfect fit for anyone looking to help their students understand the nature of World War I and its devastation.
7th - 12th
English Language Arts, Social Studies, World History
This product is a 27 question movie guide which will help your students better comprehend the film "The Crucible," starring Daniel Day Lewis and Winona Ryder. It is a perfect fit for a unit covering the Colonial Period of American History. It is also a great lesson on the value of religious tolerance.
This eight page movie guide contains 55 questions which will help your students to better comprehend the film, "42: The Jackie Robinson Story." This is an excellent tool for teaching about Civil Rights and the sacrifices made by people like Jackie Robinson, who broke baseball's color barrier in April of 1947. I've just added an answer key (2/13/2014), due to a request, and corrected a mistake I had made earlier on question #48.
This seven page download includes 45 thought provoking questions, which are intended to help your students stay focused as they view the 2014 film "Selma," starring David Oyelowo. This is a great fit for a unit on the Civil Rights, or the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. An answer key was added 7/24/2015.
This download consists of 70 questions and eight pages of information, which will help your students to better understand what happened at the Battle of Gettysburg. The film is based on Michael Shaara's book "The Killer Angels," and stars Tom Berenger, Jeff Daniels and Martin Sheen. This product is perfect for anyone who teaches about the Civil War and perhaps its most important battle.
This download includes 25 questions which will help your students to better comprehend the film "A League of Their Own." This is an excellent tool for teaching about the Women's Movement and Word War II.
This download is made up of 30 questions that will help your students to better understand how the murder of Emmett Till helped to galvanize the Civil Rights Movement. This is to be used with the PBS Home Video "The Murder of Emmett Till," from the PBS series The American Experience.
This three page download contains 30 questions for "The Cause," Episode #1 of Ken Burns' documentary film "The Civil War." This is a great tool to introduce the start of the Civil War. These questions span roughly the first hour of the film.
This four page download includes 25 questions, which will help your students to better comprehend Episode #2 of the PBS film series "Constitution USA," with Peter Sagal. This episode focuses in on contemporary issues closely related to the Bill of Rights.
This 37 question download is designed to help your students follow the Walt Disney film Around the World in 80 Days starring Jackie Chan. I use it as a culminating activity after my students have read the book Around the World in 80 Days.
This movie guide includes 25 questions, which support Episode One of the PBS film Constitution USA. This episode examines controversial issues such as "medicinal marijuana," and "gun control." Students are asked to reflect on the delicate balance of power in our "federal" system where the federal government and the states can sometimes come into conflict.
This 35 question download is intended to help keep your students engaged and focused as they view the 1979 version of the film "All Quiet on the Western Front," starring Richard Thomas and Ernest Borgnine. This is an excellent resource for helping students understand more about World War I and trench warfare.
The Butler is a film based on the life of Eugene Allen, who worked as a waiter and butler in the White House for 34 years. He started working in the White House in 1952 and retired in 1986 (as the head butler). This discussion guide is made up of 50 questions and is intended to help make viewing the film more meaningful for your students.
This forty-question download is intended to support the Disney movie "McFarland USA," starring Kevin Costner. The film would fit in nicely with a unit on Latin American culture, or during Hispanic Heritage Month. The film also causes us to give pause to the importance of "hard work" and building "meaningful relationships."
This download includes chapter by chapter discussion questions for James Swanson's book "Chasing Lincoln's Killer." This is a great tool for teaching about Lincoln's assassination and the manhunt for John Wilkes Booth which followed.
7th - 10th
English Language Arts, Social Studies, U.S. History
This download consists of 40 questions, which will help keep your students focused on the film's content. This lesson would work very well with any unit that examines the Holocaust.
This 40 question download provides discussion questions for the film Joyeux Noel. This is an excellent resource for teaching about World War One and the 1914 Christmas truce. An answer key is included
This 35 question download is intended to support and develop the 2015 film "Suffragette," starring Carey Mulligan, Helen Bonham Carter, and Meryl Streep. The product is a perfect fit for a unit on Women's History or the Era of Reform. The film examines the impact of the early British suffragettes and how they changed the course of Women's History.
This movie guide is made up of twenty-five questions that will help your students better understand the film "The Rosa Parks Story," starring Angela Bassett. It is a great tool for teaching about the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Civil Rights Movement.
This movie guide is made up of 45 questions which will help your students to stay focused and better comprehend the film "The Kite Runner." The film chronicles the history of Afghanistan from the invasion of the Soviets to contemporary times.
7th - 12th
Asian Studies, Geography, Social Studies
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Experience
I have been teaching Middle School and High School Social Studies for the past 38 years in the Minnesota public school system. I have also served as an adjunct professor teaching Social Studies Methods at North Dakota State University.
Teaching style
Philosophically, I believe in Constructivism, and I also believe that students learn best when they reflect on what they have recently learned or read.
Awards & shining teacher moments
Teacher of the Year in the Hawley Public School system in 2006.
My own education history
BA - Social Studies and Physical Education - St. Olaf College - 1986
Master of Education - Curriculum - North Dakota State University - 2003
Additional biographical information
I love traveling and seeing new things.
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