13th Documentary Worksheet

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Netflix's documentary 13th is a powerfully important background-building film whether you're teaching about social justice, black history, or American politics. Use this film worksheet in-person or virtually to make sure students are following along and not zoning out.

Students will track the prison population numbers, summarize key ideas, and fill in the blanks. Not only with this increase their background knowledge in the early days of a new unit, but it will certainly test their listening skills, too!

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Students record prison population statistics presented in the documentary '13th.'
Students answer fill-in-the-blank and short-answer listening-comprehension questions tied to the documentary as they watch.
Students build background knowledge relevant to African American history through engagement with the documentary's content.

Teaching tips

For in-person viewing, pause the documentary frequently so students can finish writing responses and to review main ideas as a class before continuing.
Break the documentary into several shorter viewing sessions across a few days rather than showing it in one sitting.
For remote or independent assignment, encourage students to pause the video themselves and write answers as they watch rather than trying to recall details afterward.

Skills covered

Documentary listening comprehension — students fill in blanks and answer short-answer questions tied to spoken content as they watch.
Data tracking — students record prison population figures presented in the film.
Historical background-building — students engage with documentary content relevant to African American history.

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Can this worksheet be used for remote learning?

Yes — the guide includes separate teacher notes for in-person, remote and independent assignment, including guidance on pushing the worksheet out digitally.

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Core concepts

Documentary viewing comprehension
Data tracking
African American history

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