Georgia 7.T.PM.1.a
The Standard
Read and comprehend to analyze myths and stories (fictional or historical) that modern writers have adapted into their own works and identify key features of style and theme. (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 compare an older myth or story with a modern work based on it. They trace retained and changed elements, then explain how style choices shape the theme.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can cite details that show how a modern work uses and changes its source. The student can explain how diction, imagery, structure, or point of view develops a theme.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may assume any story with a similar character is an adaptation. They often summarize plot changes without explaining style or theme. Some name a topic, such as courage, instead of stating a message about courage.
How to Assess It
- Give students paired excerpts from the Icarus myth and a modern retelling. Ask: What changed, what stayed, and how does one style choice affect the theme?
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs plot cards from an original myth and retelling, then have them sort each detail as retained, changed, or added.
Ask students to write: Why might a modern author change the ending, narrator, or setting of an older story?
Play Adaptation Detective, where teams earn points by matching source details to changed details and explaining each author’s likely purpose.
Compare a scene from Disney’s Hercules with the Greek Heracles story, focusing on how tone and theme shift for a modern audience.
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