Mulan is the true story of a girl who pretends to be a man in order to join the military. The viewers know she is really a woman, but she fools the men in the army.

• dramatic

• situational

• verbal

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

In The Book Thief, Liesel steals several books. However, she is one of the only kids her age who does not know how to read.

• dramatic

• situational

• verbal

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

In Romeo and Juliet, the audience knows that Juliet takes a sleeping potion, but the other characters think she is dead.

• dramatic

• situational

• verbal

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

In Mean Girls, Caty gives Regina bars meant to help people gain weight, but she tells Regina that they are "low-calorie." Regina eats them and starts gaining weight without knowing why.

• dramatic

• situational

• verbal

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

A woman is paranoid about bugs in her apartment and thinks they will harm her. She buys hundreds of dollars of products and chemical sprays to keep the bugs away, but the chemicals eventually poison her, and she dies.

• dramatic

• situational

• verbal

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Othello tells the story of a man who manipulates the relationship of two of his friends. Iago makes Desdemona think Othello cheated on her, when the audience knows that Othello really didn't.

• dramatic

• situational

• verbal

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Students watch as thunder crashes and rain pours down outside on the day of their field trip to the metro park. "Look, the weather is perfect!" says the teacher.

• dramatic

• situational

• verbal

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

In 2001: A Space Odyssey, the computer HAL 9000 was designed to help the explorers with their mission, but eventually he will not listen to the commands of the people and tries to destroy them.

• dramatic

• situational

• verbal

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

In the Harry Potter series, one of the people Harry hated the most was actually trying to help protect him all along.

• dramatic

• situational

• verbal

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.8.3

In Beauty and the Beast, Belle tells Gaston, the unpleasant man who is trying to win her love, "I just don't deserve you!"

• dramatic

• situational

• verbal

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3