CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.7
The Standard
Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two different artistic mediums, including what is emphasized or absent in each treatment (e.g., Auden's "Musée des Beaux Arts" and Breughel's Landscape with the Fall of Icarus).
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 compare how two art forms present the same subject or scene. They identify what each version highlights, changes, or leaves out and explain the effect.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student identifies the shared subject or scene and cites precise details from both works. They explain how each creator’s choices shape tone, theme, or audience response.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may list similarities and differences without explaining their effect. They may also treat any missing detail as a mistake or confuse medium-specific choices with changes in plot.
How to Assess It
- Show a short film scene and its source passage. Ask students to name one emphasized or omitted detail and explain how it shapes tone or meaning.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a poem, a painting, and sticky notes; they label matching details, added details, and omissions in each work.
After viewing a film scene and reading its source passage, ask, “What does each version make us notice first, and how?”
Run a three-column evidence race: teams place detail cards under emphasized, omitted, or changed, then defend one placement with evidence.
Compare a news photograph with a poem about the same event, then write how framing and word choice shape the audience’s response.
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