Title of the Movie

Context: The background or details surrounding an event that occurs in the story (characters, setting, genre, conflict)

Elements of the Story: Characters, Setting, Plot (Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution and
Conflict), Theme, Point of View

Author’s Intention: The author’s reason or intent in writing the movie (to amuse,to persuade,to entertain, to inform
(etc).

Reaction: a feeling experienced in response to a situation or event (sad, annoyed, happy, excited, etc).
Literary Devices: figures of speech used in the story and their purposes (simile, metaphor, personification, irony etc.)

Watch/recall your favorite scene, then write a simple critique paragraph.

Approaches in Literary Criticisms: Marxist, Biographical, Readers Response, Feminist/Gender Criticism,

Archetypal/Mythological, New Historical, Formalism, Psychological, and Post-Colonial.
Summarize the movie in your own words.

Realization: What life’s lesson/s did you get from the movie? Relate it to your experience in your life.