He Ain't Heavy, He's Just Frozen
From The Electric Company (2009) · 2009
Summary
Manny and Annie accidentally freeze Keith permanently after fighting over a freeze remote that Manny made, when trying to freeze Annie's sister, Amy, whom Annie has to babysit. It's up to the Electric Company to unfreeze Keith before his dad finds out. Guest Starring: Pete Wentz, Andrea Burns as Bebe Spamboni, Emma Kantor as Amy Scrambler, & Sean J. Moran as Sammie Spamboni Villains: Manny, Annie Words: Permanent, temporary, aim, immobile Like every Electric Company adventure, the story hangs on reading, decoding, and vocabulary under pressure.
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Discussion questions
Discussion
Every Electric Company episode builds its story around wordballs — words the team reads, decodes, and uses under pressure. Watch for the vocabulary the episode leans on and how the characters puzzle words out.
- Which words did the Electric Company have to read or decode to solve the problem?
- How did a character figure out a word they didn't know at first?
- Where could you use one of this episode's words this week?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: decode, wordball, clue, solve.
Try it: Keep a wordball list while you watch — every word the show spotlights goes on the board, and each student picks one to use in a sentence afterward.