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The Sneetches Viewing Guide
Directions: You are about to watch “The Sneetches,” a video version of Dr. Seuss’s Story Book.
As you watch the film, use the questions listed to guide your viewing of the video, answering
them as you watch. Take a moment to read over the questions first before the movie begins.
We will pause throughout.
1. What communities are represented in this story?
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2. How is membership defined? Who is included in these communities? Who is excluded?
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3. Why did the Sneetches make these distinctions?
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4. Do you think all Sneetches agreed with these rules of membership?
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5. This is a children’s story. Do you think it represents anything that exists in the real world?
Does this story remind you of anything you have experienced or heard about?
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6. Why do you think the star-bellied Sneetches decide to remove their stars?
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7. How have the rules of membership changed? Why have they changed?
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8. What did the Sneetches ultimately decide in the end?
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Table Discussion Questions
1. What are three ideas this story reveals about communities, membership, and belonging?
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2. The media always depicts teenagers as forming cliques. Compare the way the Sneetches
treat each other to the way teenagers treat each other. What is the same? What is different?
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3. Whom do you respect more, the Sneetches at the beginning of the story or the Sneetches at
the end? Explain why.
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4. Often stories are written to express a moral or teach a lesson. What is the moral of this
story?
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