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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 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 the difference between an idea and a tested prototype?

2. Why can access to a book matter without solving every problem?

Part A · A community under strain

3. How does William’s repair work establish his interests?

4. What pressures threaten the family’s harvest and food supply?

5. Why does William lose ordinary access to school?

6. How does he continue learning after that barrier?

7. What connection does he make between wind and the community’s need?

Part B · Learning and a proposal

8. How does studying an existing device support his thinking?

9. Why is a small working model valuable?

10. How do political events affect the surrounding crisis?

11. Why does his father resist giving up the bicycle?

12. How does the dispute reveal different kinds of knowledge?

Part C · Trust and construction

13. What changes when others support the construction?

14. Why should the finished device be analyzed as a system?

15. How does the outcome change the family relationship?

16. What does the resolution emphasize beyond individual ingenuity?

After viewing

17. Which scene best demonstrates evidence changing a judgment?

18. What factor could a simple invention narrative understate?

19. How would you verify the film’s technical explanation?

20. How would a memoir excerpt help evaluate a scene?

Final written response

How does William turn knowledge into a practical proposal under severe constraints? 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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