CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7.7
The Standard
Compare and contrast a written story, drama, or poem to its audio, filmed, staged, or multimedia version, analyzing the effects of techniques unique to each medium (e.g., lighting, sound, color, or camera focus and angles in a film).
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts · Reading Standards for Literature
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students examine the same scene in print and in audio, film, or performance. They identify choices available in each form. They explain how those choices shape mood, character, pacing, or meaning.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students use specific evidence from both versions. They connect choices such as narration, sound, lighting, acting, or camera focus to changes in mood, pacing, character, or meaning.
Common Misconceptions
- Students often list differences without explaining their effects. They may judge one version as better based on preference, or confuse changed plot details with techniques such as lighting, sound, and camera angle.
How to Assess It
- Provide a short passage and show its one-minute filmed version. Ask: "Identify one technique used in each version and explain how each shapes the mood."
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give groups a printed scene and still frames; have them arrange frames, add lighting and sound notes, then explain one mood choice.
After reading and viewing one scene, ask: Which medium makes the character's fear clearer, and what specific technique creates that effect?
Play a matching game where students pair technique cards, such as close-up or music, with effect cards and defend each match.
Compare a novel excerpt with its movie trailer, then identify how the trailer uses images and sound to attract a target audience.
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