How can media change the way that literature is viewed?
Look at these examples on YouTube
Students: Watch these examples. I want you to compare/ contrast these movie clips to the actual literature that they were insprired from. Ask yourself questions. How are they different? have the charcters changed? Are the charcters static or dynamic? Has the plot changed? How has the media changed the plot? Do you think that by changing or not changing the plot, have more movie tickets been sold?
Student Individual Activity: Choose a novel, play, short story, etc., that interests you and write a movie script for the genre. You are strongly encouraged to change the plot, characters, setting, or time period.
Rubric: The rubric will be generated from the students opinions and own standards. We will make a rubric as a class.
Thought Behind Assignment: I want the students to understand the differences between the literature and the media’s portaryal of literature. I want them to see how media is shaping our society’s opinion of pieces of literature.
Standards:
ELA12W2 The student demonstrates competence in a variety of genres.The student produces narrative writing that applies polished narrative strategies acquired inprevious grades, in other genres of writing such as reflective compositions, historicalinvestigative reports, and literary analyses, by raising the level of critical thinking skills and rhetorical techniques.The student produces expository (informational) writing to explain an idea or concept and/or convey information and ideas from primary and secondary sources accurately and coherently; the student:a. Engages the interest of the reader.b. Formulates a coherent thesis or controlling idea.
ELA12W3 The student uses research and technology to support writing. The student a. Formulates clear research questions and utilizes appropriate research venues (i.e., library, electronic media, personal interview, survey) to locate and incorporate evidence from primary and secondary sources.
ELA12C2 The student demonstrates understanding of manuscript form, realizing that
different forms of writing require different formats. The student a. Produces writing that conforms to appropriate manuscript requirements.b. Produces legible work that shows accurate spelling and correct use of the conventions of punctuation and capitalization. Produces writing that conforms to appropriate manuscript requirements. c. Reflects appropriate format requirements, including pagination, spacing, and margins, and integration of source material with appropriate citations (i.e., in-text citations, use of direct quotations, paraphrase, and summary, and weaving of source and support materials with writer’s own words, etc.).
