Okay, I've been teaching my middle schoolers all about movies.

We've talked about genres, we made movie posters, we even talked about reviews and played a listening game.

I'm running out of ideas, and I really want to continue with this until midterms if at all possible. That means two more weeks - or two lessons - that have something to do with movies.

I'm looking at teaching about the Oscars next week, but I really need an activity to go with it. Preferably not a game, because we are doing that this week. I'd like it to be something creative. I live in a lower income area, and my students are not motivated to learn so I have to give them something at least a little fun or they won't do it at all. Just curious if anyone has any other sort of idea for lessons on movies, because I'm afraid I've hit a bit of a wall.

I love this idea! But I'm worried it will be far too high in level for some of my first graders 

Any ideas about how to modify something like that down to something more manageable for my lower classes?

I just thought of doing like a MadLibs thing for them, but I can only very rarely get a CTs help with making lessons and I'd probably need some Korean to explain the concept (and the Korean words for noun, verb, adverb, etc.) Does anyone know if MadLibs are a thing in Korea? (So that the kids might already know what to do)

I agree with johnny - they can probably handle a guided script-writing session but I wouldn't limit it to one class. I did a week-long summer camp where I spent the first day doing a genre review, then had the students choose a director and genre to film their own movie.

They chose crime and brainstormed ideas the next day and developed a short, five scene plot outline (just one sentence summations of the main event in a scene, nothing too complicated, like 1- The Chairman meets the killer. He dies. 2- The students find the chairman. 3- the detective looks for the killer 4- The detective finds the CCTV. 5 - the detective catches the killer). Then I helped them write short scripts for the scenes. I had them work in small groups and come up with what they wanted, and between my coteacher helping them translate and me coming up with natural expressions we got multiple lines for each scene.

The next days we filmed it.

It's definitely doable with a mixed-level middle school class. The first graders got short lines and the third graders got more of a conversational part (for instance, a first grader was the chairman since he died right away. The witness students who just run in and say OH NO! He's dead! are also first graders, but the detective and such who might have multiple lines were third graders).

The video was short, only about 5 minutes, but they enjoyed doing it and all understood the story from beginning to end. I'd only recommend it if you can coordinate really well with your co teacher for the class and have 3-4 classes to kill with the project.