Black Beauty Movie Guide | Worksheet | Questions | Google Form (PG – 2020)

Black Beauty Movie Guide | Worksheet | Questions | Google Form (PG – 2020) challenges students to connect with this classic story of friendship, trust and animal treatment. Think like a director and evaluate how point of view is used to develop Black Beauty’s character. Compare Black Beauty and Jo and draw conclusions about why they had an immediate connection. Discuss the terms ‘breaking’ and ‘partnering’ along with their respective connotations and debate which one is better. Finally, reflect on animal treatment and the pros and cons of anthropomorphism.

NOTE: This movie guide is meant to accompany the newest version of Black Beauty released in 2020 on Disney +.

This resource consists of 11 high-level, short answer and essay questions that will do more than just ask your students to regurgitate information. See the thumbnail images for sample questions.

This product .zip file includes:

• A student movie guide, PDF digital fillable form version (4 pages)
• A student movie guide, PDF print version (4 pages)
• An answer key (4 pages) is included, however, some answers will vary as students are encouraged to construct their own meaning throughout the film and many questions are open-ended.
• A Google Forms Version of the Movie Guide
• A generic movie guide permission slip (1 page)
• CCSS alignment indicating standards met, PDF (1 page – see also preview image)
  • CCSS Note: I’ve taken the liberty of aligning certain reading standards with the act of consuming content via the movie instead. Although students aren’t reading they are asked to perform the same cognitive functions on the content that they consumed from the movie.

Google Classroom Distance Learning Tips:

1. Create an assignment using the Google Form
2. Use the screen sharing tool on your conference calling software to play the movie
3. Pause the movie at each question to give students time to write/discuss
4. Make sure students input their name, so when you open your copy of the form, you can see each student’s individual response they submitted
5. Note: If you are using the movie guide for multiple classes and want to separate responses by class, create multiple copies of the google form with file names such as [Title]MovieGuideClassPeriod[2] and then create assignments for each copy of the Google Form movie guide