By Mr Hull's Movie Guides
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What's Inside the Guide
This is a 8-page classroom-ready resource.
40 questions requiring full sentence answers, covering the movie in order. Answer key included.
This part covers two activities.
- 10 open ended discussion questions to use after watching, either as a full class discussion or completed individually.
- Two creative essay prompts: one asking students to imagine themselves as an orphan captured alongside Peter and taken into the mines, and a second asking students to continue the story from the moment Peter rescues the other orphans up to the point where Hook and Peter become enemies.
A crossword with 10 questions where the answers are the words to find in an accompanying word search, plus 5 additional hidden words. Answer key included.
“Great resource to use with my mixed ability students. ”
— The Literary Learning Lounge (TPT Seller)
“Great activity to supplement movie”
— Marla F.
Why Watch This Movie With Your Students
Here's what your students naturally take away from the movie, whether through themes, values, ideas, or perspectives.
🪄 Reimagines a Story Students Already Know. Pan takes a character most students recognize and asks what his story looked like before he became Peter Pan. It gives students a concrete example of how a familiar tale can be retold from a completely different angle, changing the setting, the villain, and even the hero's backstory.
🦋 Centers on Believing in Yourself. Peter has the ability to fly, a half fairy trait passed down from his mother, but he cannot do it until he believes he is capable of it. That struggle gives students a clear, concrete example of self doubt and self belief playing out through action rather than dialogue alone.
🤝 Builds Alliances Between Former Enemies. Peter's relationships with Hook and Tiger Lily both start from suspicion or captivity before turning into genuine loyalty. Students can trace how trust is built between characters who have every reason not to trust each other at first.
⚔️ Sets an Origin Story During WWII. Unlike earlier versions of the Peter Pan story, this movie places Peter's London orphanage during the Blitz, adding a specific historical backdrop most students will not expect from a Peter Pan movie. It gives the early scenes a grounded, real world tension before Peter is taken to Neverland.
🏴☠️ Reframes a Classic Villain Dynamic. Blackbeard, not Captain Hook, is the primary antagonist for most of the movie, and Hook himself starts out as a fellow prisoner working alongside Peter. This inversion gives students something to compare directly against the version of the story they already know.
🧭 Follows a Clear Hero's Journey Structure. Peter is taken from his ordinary world, tested repeatedly, and has to accept his identity before he can defeat Blackbeard and become the character he is destined to be. It is a clean, recognizable example of a hero's journey that students can map out scene by scene.
Age Suitability and Content
This movie is rated PG.
⚠️ Things to be aware of:
- Several action sequences include gunfights, sword fights, and explosions, some of which are shown as characters exploding into colored dust rather than realistic violence.
- A tribal chief is executed on screen, shown as an implied death rather than graphic violence.
- Mild language includes words like 'hell' and 'damn.'
- There is no drinking, drug use, or smoking depicted in the movie.
📋 A free editable parent permission slip is available for this movie. It explains the educational benefits of watching movies in class and includes a space for parental consent. → Download Free Permission Slip on TpT (Free resource)
Note for educators: Movie details and age ratings in this post are sourced from IMDb, Common Sense Media, and Wikipedia to help ensure accuracy.
How My Movie Guide Helps You Teach It
Click your subject below to see how this guide supports it:
📚 English Language Arts Teachers
🗣️ ESL and ELL Teachers
🎬 Substitute Teachers and Cover Lessons
🏠 Homeschool Parents
💙 SEL Teachers
🌟 Supporting All Learners A movie gives students a story to follow, and the guide gives them questions to work through as they watch. For students with autism, learning difficulties, and mild to severe disabilities, that combination provides a clear focus for the lesson and a concrete way to show understanding. The format can be useful in special education and learning support classrooms, where teachers need activities that give students a defined task during viewing. Find out more about why movies work for diverse learners.
How These Guides Work: From Movie to Lesson
Watching a movie is not a break from learning. It reaches students through sight, sound, and story at once, engaging the brain in ways text alone does not, and the structured work around it is what turns the viewing into a genuine lesson. You can read the research behind this on the Why Movies Work page.
- A Teacher Notes and General Directions page opens the guide with a brief overview of everything inside: what the movie is about, then each part of the guide in order with a short description of what it entails. You know what to expect from the whole resource before you hand out a single page, so you can pick up the guide cold and teach it the same day.
- Answer keys are included for the comprehension question sets, so grading is quick and you are not rewatching the movie to check answers. Some guides also include example answers for the creative and written activities.
- Print and go: classroom ready, with no additional preparation needed. Print one the morning you need it and the lesson is ready.
- Substitute and first-timer friendly. A guide can be handed to a substitute or picked up by a teacher covering the topic for the first time. Nobody running the session needs to have seen the movie.
- Differentiated comprehension sets. Most guides include two or three question sets at different difficulty levels, and most include a multiple-choice option that works well for ESL and ELL students. One class set covers your strongest readers, your strugglers, and your language learners without separate prep.
- Activities that go beyond recall. Each guide includes structured activities that ask students to engage with the movie, not just watch it, ranging from creative and written tasks to discussion and critical thinking questions depending on the guide. That variety matters in a mixed classroom: a student who freezes on a written question set may show real understanding through a drawing or a creative task, and a confident writer gets room to go beyond recall. For the teacher, it turns a movie session into work you can grade: comprehension questions show whether students followed the plot, and the activities beyond them show whether they understood it.
