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Reading Enrichment Unit – Angela Clark

Understanding By Design
(Developed by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe, 2002)

Stage 1 – Desired Results


Content Standard(s):
 ELAGSE11-12RL7: Analyze multiple interpretations of a story, drama, or poem
(e.g., recorded or live production of a play or recorded novel or poetry),
evaluating how each version interprets the source text. (Include at least one play
by Shakespeare as well as one play by an American dramatist.)
 ELAGSE11-12RI6: Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text in
which the rhetoric is particularly effective, analyzing how style and content
contribute to the power, persuasiveness, or beauty of the text.
AASL Standards:
 IV. C. 3: Learners exchange information resources within and beyond their
learning community by: Joining with others to compare and contrast information
derived from collaboratively constructed information sites.
 I.B.3: Learners engage with new knowledge by following a process that includes:
Generating products that illustrate learning.
Understanding (s)/goals Essential Question(s):
Students will understand that:  Does making a book into a movie
 There are similarities and lose its dynamic?
differences between books and  How do the characters from the
movies. Watching a movie does not movie compare to the book?
take the place of reading a book.  Is the take away from a movie the
same as a book?

Student objectives (outcomes):


Students will be able to:
 Compare and contrast excerpts from books and movies
 Suggest ways in which the story/characters are altered
 Analyze characters and how they change

Stage 2 – Assessment Evidence


Performance Task(s): Other Evidence:
 Students will complete the  We will have discussions after
Compare/Contrast Guide reading excerpts from the book and
 Students will complete Thinking after watching parts from the movie
Critically about a character  Using Storyboard That to rewrite a
 Students will complete a Critical scene.
Analysis
Stage 3 – Learning Plan
Learning Activities:
Lesson One: The class will first have a discussion if they have read a book and then
watched the movie that was made from the book. Were they pleased or disappointed?
What were some of the differences and similarities?

Introduce Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and the 1996 movie Romeo and Juliet.
Read Act 5 Scene 3 Romeo and Juliet’s death scene.
Watch this scene from the movie. https://youtu.be/xcSwBHs1uD4

After movie, students will complete Compare/Contrast Guide Appendix A. The student
will write what we have talked about and read during this lesson and something that the
student has noticed.

Lesson Two: Discuss if anything came to mind that someone might want to mention from
previous lesson. Remind students of the comparison and contrast of the scene.

Introduce Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and the 1931 movie.


We will read parts of the book when Frankenstein’s monster taught himself to read and
learn new languages. Show the movie version where he is a mute.
https://youtu.be/nur4g4r1LN4

Discuss the differences. Ask students have they noticed the differences in how characters
are displayed in books and movies.
https://youtu.be/TKSlH-1XZho This video describes the differences between the
characters in the book and the movies of Harry Potter.

Have student complete Thinking Critically about the Movie Adaptation of a Character
about Frankenstein.

Lesson Three:
Read an excerpt from Hamlet where Hamlet kills Claudius, Act 5 scene 2 and watch the
fight between Scar and Simba in The Lion King. https://youtu.be/c8nHCZqgFA8 . Read
scene when Hamlet sees father’s ghost, Act 1 scene 5 and watch when Simba sees
Mufasa’s ghost: https://youtu.be/PZfeR-QE5io Complete Book/Movie Venn Diagram

Discussion of movies that students may have seen but not read the book. This discussion
is more candid. Students will not be reading or watching. It is for them to realize there
are differences and similarities between books and movies. I will encourage students to
read the book even if they do not do it first.

Lesson Four: Rewrite a scene from a movie that we have talked about or another
book/movie that the student has read or seen using Storyboard That. Students are to limit
it to three panels. Put name their name on the last panel. The panels are to have
conversation.
Appendix A
“Movie vs. Book”
Compare and Contrast Guide

Book Title: Movie Title:

Setting: Setting:

Character Analysis: Character Analysis:

How are the characters similar?

How are the characters different?

Which of the two did you connect with and


why?

Appendix B
Books and Movies Name ________________________

Thinking Critically About the Movie Adaptation of a Character

Book/Movie ________________________________

1. Considering the excerpt that we have read from the book and watched from the

movie, explain how the character has changed:

2. What effect do you think this had on the story telling?

3. Did this decision increase your understanding and enjoyment of the story?

http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/cover-cover-comparing-
books-1098.html?tab=4

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