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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Online Worksheet

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

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Before viewing

1. How can fear interfere with understanding someone unfamiliar?

2. What makes helping different from controlling every choice?

Part A · Meeting a visitor

3. Why is the visitor left behind?

4. How does Elliott first respond to the unexplained presence?

5. What does Elliott do to encourage the visitor to trust him?

6. Why does Elliott keep the visitor hidden?

7. How do Michael and Gertie respond when they discover him?

Part B · Communication and connection

8. How does the visitor begin learning human communication?

9. What does the shared emotional or physical connection do for the story?

10. Why does contacting home become the central goal?

11. How do household objects become useful for the communication plan?

12. Why is Halloween helpful to their plan?

Part C · Care, pursuit, and farewell

13. What changes when the visitor’s health worsens?

14. How does the medical response create both care and separation?

15. What does the bicycle escape reveal about cooperation?

16. Why is the farewell emotionally difficult even though the goal is achieved?

After viewing

17. Choose a moment when communication changes someone’s response.

18. How does the camera encourage viewers to share the children’s perspective?

19. Which adult choice could be evaluated from more than one perspective?

20. How does the ending connect care with allowing someone to leave?

Final written response

How can recognizing another being’s needs change the way people respond to fear? 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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