Practice Lesson Desired Results

Part of my work for this website is classwork for a college course. Under is a practice lesson plan taught to a certain standard for the state of Florida. While this standard is core to the lesson plan, these initial elements also involve other standards around writing, critical thinking, and interpretation.

Standard: LAFS.8.RL.3.7

Understandings

Students will understand...

- the limitations of a text vs. a film, staged production, audio drama, graphic novel, ect.

- how choices made in an adaptation to a medium affects how the story is told.

- how to critically analyze a work through the media its depicted with as compared to adaptations through a different medium

Essential Questions

- How do the differences in presentation in each type of media affect how the story is told?

- What makes this adaptation in x medium different from this one in y medium?

- How could you improve or use x elements of this medium to adapt a story?

- What could be lost or gained in changing the medium through which a story is told?

ABCD Objectives

Outcomes; students will be able to...

- describe, in technical narrative terms, how differences between a text and its adaptation affect the work's themes, plot, and messages using an organizational chart (Venn diagram, T-chart, concept map, ect.).

- explain and defend successful or unsuccessful decisions made between adaptations of different types (film, visual novel, audio drama, ect.) using an organizational chart (Venn diagram, T-chart, concept map, ect.).

- write a persuasive 3-5 paragraph essay comparing a new, chosen text and its adaptation (either available through a library, streaming, or free source) with less than 10 technical or grammatical errors

- create partial adaptations of a text and explain choices made in its creation using provided image or video editing software.