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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Movie Guide | Questions (PG – 2019) challenges students to connect their experiences with William’s life. Explore the relationship William’s family has with education and compare it to the way an average person views education in your community. Consider the hardships William faced and what lessons we can learn from his experiences. Ask students to do further research on how a dynamo works and draw a labeled diagram of William’s windmill.
This resource consists of 12 high-level, short answer and essay questions that will do more than just ask your students to regurgitate information. See the preview file for high resolution sample questions.
This product .zip file includes:
- A student movie guide, PDF digital fillable form version (5 pages)
- A student movie guide, PDF print version (5 pages)
- An answer key (5 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 & Slides 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:
- Create an assignment using the Google Form
- Use the screen sharing tool on your conference calling software to play the movie
- Pause the movie at each question to give students time to write/discuss
- 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
- 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
1. In The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, in what venue does William Kamkwamba introduce his innovative achievement to the international community?
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TedGlobal in Tanzania
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Nobel Prize awards in Sweden
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New York World's Fair
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MIT conference in Cambridge
2. According to The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, what is the primary crop for Malawian farmers?
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maize
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rice
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potato
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tobacco
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About This Quiz & Worksheet
Refer to this brief quiz and worksheet assessment to gauge how much you know about the story told in The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind. You will need to know details about events in the story and facts about the author himself in order to correctly answer each of these quiz questions.
Quiz & Worksheet Goals
You can expect to do well on this quiz if you are able to:
- Identify the phrase by which the author refers to his invention
- Describe the venue in which Kamkwamba introduces his achievement to the global community
- Name the primary crop for Malawian farmers
- Note what level of education Kamkwamba reached
- Recognize the language and culture in Malawi
Skills Practiced
- Reading comprehension- ensure that you can draw the most important information from the lesson, such as what Kamkwamba called his innovative invention
- Information recall - access the knowledge you've gained regarding Kamkwamba's level of education
- Knowledge application - use the knowledge you've gained to answer questions about Malawian language/culture and the country's primary crop
Additional Learning
Gather more information about this author and his book by using the lesson called The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Summary. You can review such details as:
- When the book was published
- How critics felt about the book
- What tradition is broken by Kamkwamba's childhood family
- Why Kamkwamba dropped out of school
- Which books Kamkwamba pored over to teach himself mechanics, physics and thermodynamics
- How the author was connected to the support he needed to make his project a reality
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