Teacher's Guide to Inside Out

​When an 11-year old girl is uprooted to move with her parents, the cartoon character emotions in her mind must figure out how to work together to guide her through this difficult transition.

​Riley is thrown for a loop when she and her parents move from Minnesota to San Francisco. Five primary emotions – happiness (joy), anger, disgust, sadness, and fear – appear as cartoon characters within Riley Andersen’s mind (“headquarters”). The emotions must figure out how to work together to guide her through this difficult transition. When Joy and Sadness get lost in Riley’s mind, Anger, Fear and Disgust are left to navigate Riley’s new experiences. Joy and Sadness finally return after their adventures through various aspects of Riley's memory, sleep and dreams.

An LA detective battles sleep deprivation while investigating a murder in a small town in Alaska where the sun never sets.

Veteran detective Will Dormer flies to Nightmute, Alaska to assist the local police force in an ongoing murder investigation. While trying to find the killer, detective Dormer battles sun filled nights that rob him of sleep. As Dormer’s mind becomes increasingly fatigued he must come to terms with a second crime as he struggles to differentiate between his waning consciousness and reality.