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City of Ember Online Worksheet

Write brief answers during viewing. Use character choices and scene evidence for your analysis.

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Before viewing

1. What is infrastructure, and why does it matter?

2. How can people test a leader’s reassuring claim?

Part A · A city under strain

3. What was Ember designed to protect people from?

4. Why does the lost box matter to the city’s future?

5. How do Lina and Doon change their assigned jobs?

6. What does Doon learn from working below the city?

7. What do recurring blackouts suggest?

Part B · Clues and concealment

8. How does Lina discover a difficult clue?

9. Why do the friends reconstruct the message together?

10. How does the mayor’s hoard change their view of authority?

11. Why does reporting wrongdoing become risky?

12. What role do earlier builders’ plans play in the solution?

Part C · Finding a way out

13. How does cooperation matter during the escape?

14. Why is the river route frightening?

15. What does reaching the surface change?

16. How do they try to share the discovery with Ember?

After viewing

17. Which scene best shows evidence overcoming assumption?

18. What does the mayor’s conduct reveal about accountability?

19. How does a selected novel passage handle a clue differently?

20. What real infrastructure question would require further research?

Final written response

How can people respond when the systems they depend on begin to fail? Write a paragraph with a clear claim, evidence from two scenes, and reasoning. End with one limitation of the film’s portrayal or one question for further study.

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