Code | Description |
LAFS.8.RL.3.7: | Analyze the extent to which a filmed or live production of a story or drama stays faithful to or departs from the text or script, evaluating the choices made by the director or actors. |
LAFS.8.RL.3.9: | Analyze how a modern work of fiction draws on themes, patterns of events, or character types from myths, traditional stories, or religious works such as the Bible, including describing how the material is rendered new. |
Access Point Number | Access Point Title |
LAFS.8.RL.3.AP.7a: | Compare and contrast content presented in text, media and live performance. |
LAFS.8.RL.3.AP.9a: | Compare modern works of literature to the texts from which they draw ideas. |
Name | Description |
The Magic of Allusion and Themes: | Learn how to identify and explain allusions within a text. In this interactive tutorial, you'll examine how texts create meaning by referencing well-known individuals, characters, and myths. |
Name | Description |
Pygmalion: A Mythological Inspiration: | In this unit, students will discover the relevance of Greek mythology as they unravel the story of Pygmalion, the lonely sculptor who carved out of ivory his true love, just like Professor Higgins "carved" out of the slums of London his ideal mate in the stage play Pygmalion. Students will conduct three close readings of Thomas Bulfinch's Pygmalion to answer text-dependent questions, work with vocabulary from the text, and construct a plot diagram of the myth. Students will also work as a class to read an abridged excerpt from Act II of George Bernard Shaw's award winning play, Pygmalion. The plot of the play is augmented with songs from the filmed musical My Fair Lady. Students will compare and contrast key characters and their traits from both texts. In the end of unit assessment, students will create their own narrative version of the Pygmalion myth. |
From Text to Film: Exploring Classic Literature Adaptations: | Students learn about movie adaptations of books through a series of activities exploring the relationship between literature and film. |
Title | Description |
The Magic of Allusion and Themes: | Learn how to identify and explain allusions within a text. In this interactive tutorial, you'll examine how texts create meaning by referencing well-known individuals, characters, and myths. |