Jumanji. Zathura. Name

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1 Jumanji Zathura Name

2 Jumanji (the book) Listening Comprehension Read over the questions before we begin. Listen carefully as the teacher reads Jumanji to you. When you hear the answer to a question, write it down. You don t need to use complete sentences. The questions are in order. 1. Where were Mother and Father going? 2. Why did Mother ask that the children keep the house neat? 3. Where did the children find the Jumanji game? 4. What was the very important rule written in capital letters? 5. What was the first extraordinary thing that happened as the children played the game? 6. Put the following in the order in which they happened, with 1 being the first. tsetse fly lion volcano eruption Jumanji shortcut python rhinoceros stampede monkeys lost guide monsoon 7. Who reached Jumanji first? 8. What did the children do with the game when the finished playing it? 9. Who was next to play the game? C1

3 Jumanji (the movie) Listening Comprehension Read over the questions before we begin. View carefully as the movie plays. When you hear the answer to a question, write it down. You don t need to use complete sentences. The questions are in order. Circle the correct answer: 1. Alan s father owns a: shoe factory bike factory 2. Alan wants his father to take him home because: he is tired he is frightened of Billy 3. The boys hit and kick Alan because: he talked to Billy s girlfriend he took Billy s bike 4. Alan finds a box with the word Jumanji on it: next to his bike in a hole 5. What do you learn about Alan in the beginning of the story? Explain the importance of the following numbers in the story: 6. 26: 7. 5 and 8: 8. 38: : 10. What is strange about Alan when he comes back from inside the game? 11. Where does Alan go? 12. What happened to Alan s parents? 13. Why does Alan look for Sarah? 14. What happens to Sarah when she sees Alan? 15. Why do you think Van Pelt wants to kill Alan? Finish the following sentences: 16. Twenty-six years ago we started something and now we must 17. The man from the jungle has a 18. Judy says Peter is clever because 19. The children must finish the game because C2

4 Put the following in the order in which they happened, with 1 being the first. Big spiders come into the room. Alan starts to fall through the floor. Alan says, Jumanji! The floor breaks open. The token moves to the finish. The water goes down. Van Pelt is going to kill Alan. One of the dice falls down the hole. Sarah s arms are stuck in the floor. Peter grows a tail. What lesson does the author want you to learn from the story? C3-A ****************************************************************************************** Zathura (the movie) Listening Comprehension Read over the questions before we begin. View carefully as the movie plays. When you hear the answer to a question, write it down. You don t need to use complete sentences. The questions are in order. 1. Put the following Zathura cards in the order in which they appeared. flunk space academy robot is defective meteor shower lose map of galaxy visited by Zorgons swing on a star rescue stranded astronaut reprogram enter gravity field game over promoted to fleet admiral promoted to starship captain caught cheating automatic ejection shooting star make a wish hit time warp repeat last turn shipmate enters cryonic sleep chamber 2. Who are the main characters? and 3. Why does Dad leave the house? 4. How does Danny happen to go into the creepy basement? 5. What does Danny find in the basement? 6. What was the first strange thing that happened after Danny pressed the GO button? 7. What did the boys discover when they opened the front door? C3-B

5 8. What happened to Lisa? 9. Why do the boys decide to continue playing the game? 10. How is the robot defective? 11. What is one reason Danny doesn t take his next turn right away? 12. Why do you think the boys put Lisa back in the bathroom? 13. What s one thing Danny demands from Walter before he will continue playing the game? 14. What s a Zorgon? 15. What advice did the astronaut give Danny? 16. How does the astronaut propose to deal with the Zorgons? 17. How do they get the Zorgons to leave? 18. Which character in the movie Jumanji is the astronaut most like Peter, Judy, Alan, Van Pelt, or Sarah? How are they alike? 19. How is what Danny did in this movie similar to what Peter did in the movie Jumanji? 20. Why was Walter ejected from the house? 21. What does Walter wish for? 22. What did the astronaut THINK Walter wished for? 23. Why did the astronaut think Walter wished for that? 24. Why did the Zorgons come back? 25. How was the astronaut going to get the game back from the Zorgons? 26. That plan didn t work. What was the next plan? 27. How do the Zorgons discover Danny? 28. Which character in the movie Jumanji is the robot most like Peter, Judy, Alan, Van Pelt, or Sarah? How are they alike? 29. How did the reprogram card save their lives? 30. What does getting the time warp card do? 31. What does Walter wish for this time? 32. Who was the astronaut? 33. Who won the game? 34. What is the planet Zathura? C4

6 35. What happened when they got sucked into Zathura? 36. How did playing the game change Danny and Walter s relationship? 37. What are two similarities between the movie Jumanji and the movie Zathura? a. b. 38. What are two differences between the movie Jumanji and the movie Zathura? a. b. Bonus Question: Where have you heard the names Danny and Walter before? C5

7 Graphic Organizers Compare the novel of Jumanji to the movie of Jumanji. For the novel and movie sections, be sure to put items that are unique to each. Do NOT simply write opposites. SK1-A ****************************************************************************************** Compare the movie of Jumanji to the movie of Zathura. For the novel and movie sections, be sure to put items that are unique to each. Do NOT simply write opposites. SK1-B

8 Graphic Organizers (Social Studies connection) The thematic setting of the movie Jumanji is the rain forest. Tropical rain forests cover about 5% of the world s surface. There are three main rain forest regions on three different continents. Study the map below, and then answer the questions. 1. Color the following: Light green: South American and Central American rain forest area Dark green: African rain forest (including the island of Madagascar) Yellow: Southeast Asia rain forest. 2. The world s rain forests are near what imaginary line? 3. The world s largest rain forest is located on what continent? 4. Which rain forest is located mostly on islands? 5. Why do you think there are almost no rain forests north of the Tropic of Cancer or south of the Tropic of Capricorn? SK2

9 Graphic Organizers (Math connection) Each minute of each day, an area of rain forest the size of ten city blocks vanishes from the Earth. Use a calculator to complete the following tables in order to find out how much rain forest disappears each year. Use the final entry in each table to begin the next table. Table 1 Table 2 Minutes Blocks Hours Blocks Square Miles hour (60 minutes) Table 3 Table 4 Days Square Miles Weeks Square Miles 1 (24 hours) (7 days) Rounded to the nearest 10,000, about how much rain forest vanishes each year? SK3

10 Story Elements Fill in the chart with story elements from Jumanji and Zathura. Story Element Jumanji Zathura Setting: When? Setting: Where? Main Characters (list 3) Main Problem (conflict) Important Events (list 5) Resolution (how was the main problem solved?) Conclusion (how did the story end?) SK4

11 Creative Thinking Characterization The thematic setting of Jumanji is the rain forest. Pretend that you are a zoologist on assignment in a rain forest. You discover a completely new animal never before discovered. Fill in the specimen report below about your new animal. SK5

12 Visual Communication Draw and color a picture of the new animal you discovered while on assignment in the rain forest. Be sure that your picture includes all the details from your specimen report on page SK5. Optional assignment: Create a 3-D model of your new animal. Be sure it matches your specimen report description. SK6

13 Creative Thinking Characterization The thematic setting of Zathura is outer space. Pretend that you are an astronaut on a space mission assignment. You encounter a new life form never before known to human kind. Fill in the incident report below about the new life form. SK7

14 Visual Communication Draw and color a picture of the new life form you encountered while on your mission to space. Be sure that your picture includes all the details from your incident report on page SK7. Optional assignment: Create a 3-D model of your new life form. Be sure it matches your incident report description. SK8

15 Spelling Below is a word bank of important words from Jumanji and Zathura. Find each word spelled correctly in the word search puzzle. SP1

16 Spelling Below is a word bank of important words from Jumanji and Zathura. Unscramble and spell each word correctly. SP2

17 Writing Address each prompt with a well-written paragraph. 1. Both Jumanji and Zathura are about games that come to life. Compare them (remember to tell both similarities and differences). 2. Which movie did you like better? Why? 3. If you were to get stuck in either the game Jumanji, or the game Zathura, which would you prefer to get trapped in? Why? W1

18 Writing Use the following list of characters from the movies to address each prompt with a well-written paragraph. Judy Peter Alan Sarah Van Pelt Billy Walter Danny Walter and Danny s father the astronaut Zorgons 1. Which of these characters is most like you? How are you and this character alike? 2. Which of these characters would you most like to meet? Why? What would you do and/or say if you met this character? W2