Kentucky Reading and Writing RL.11-12.7
The Standard
Analyze diverse media interpretations of a story, drama or poem, evaluating how each version interprets the source text.
Kentucky Academic Standards for Reading and Writing (2025) · Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students compare a written scene or poem with versions in different media. They explain how choices in voice, sound, or images shape its meaning, using the writing as evidence.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can point to a line, describe how a performer voices it and how an artist depicts it, then explain the different impressions. They can judge each version using evidence rather than preference.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may call a recording better because it sounds dramatic without citing a line. They may treat details added by an illustrator as facts from the poem or miss how a change in pace shifts the mood.
How to Assess It
- Play a recording of the “Deep into that darkness peering” stanza of “The Raven” and display an illustration of it. Ask: “How does each version show the speaker’s fear? Use one phrase from the poem and one detail from each version.”
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Pairs use sticky notes to link lines from a printed “The Raven” stanza to choices in an audio reading and illustration.
Ask: “Which version makes the speaker seem more afraid, the recording or illustration? Cite one line and one choice from each version.”
Teams match voice, pace, color, and framing cards to lines in the stanza, using the audio reading and illustration as clues.
Show two book covers featuring “The Raven”; ask what each illustrator emphasizes to catch a bookstore shopper’s eye, using a line from the poem.
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