Georgia 10.T.PM.1.a
The Standard
Explain how a modern author adapts an archetypal story, myth, event, or figure to new purposes and circumstances. (I)
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards · Texts (T) · Periods & Movements
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students trace how a modern work reuses an older story pattern, character, event, or myth. They explain what changed and how those changes serve a new purpose or context.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students can connect specific characters, conflicts, symbols, or plot patterns across both works. They explain how at least one change reflects a new context and supports the author's message.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may treat any shared theme as proof of adaptation. They may list similarities and differences without explaining how the changes fit a new audience, setting, or purpose.
How to Assess It
- Give students a myth summary and a modern excerpt. Ask them to name one adapted element and explain how the change serves the modern work's purpose.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give groups plot, character, and setting cards from a myth and its adaptation, then have them match and label each change.
Ask students to write: Which change most reshapes the original story's meaning, and what new purpose does it serve?
Play adaptation detective with short paired excerpts, awarding points for identifying source elements, changes, and likely reasons for each change.
Compare a myth with a current film, advertisement, or song, then explain why the creator reused that figure for a modern audience.
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