Kentucky Reading and Writing RL.9-10.7
The Standard
Analyze the impact of the representation of a subject or a key scene in different print and non-print mediums and evaluate what is emphasized or omitted in each treatment.
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 literary scene on the page with a film, performance, or recording. They identify what each version highlights or leaves out and explain how those choices affect the audience's understanding.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student points to a line in the text and a specific sound, gesture, or camera choice in the other version. They explain how that choice changes the mood or a character's portrayal.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may list differences without explaining their effects. Some assume a film is wrong if it cuts a line, or miss that a gesture can convey something the film does not say aloud.
How to Assess It
- Show a one-minute filmed balcony scene beside the matching script excerpt. Ask students to name one detail the film highlights or omits, then explain its effect using a line and a film detail.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Pairs stage 30 seconds of the printed balcony scene, then mark one line they stressed and one they cut.
After reading the balcony scene and watching a clip, ask which film choice most changes their view of Juliet, and why.
Play Spot the Shift: teams list three details a filmed balcony scene highlights or omits, then defend one effect with evidence.
Compare a Romeo and Juliet trailer featuring the balcony scene with the printed scene; mark what the trailer omits to shape viewers' expectations.
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Related Standards
- RL.11-12.7
Analyze diverse media interpretations of a story, drama or poem, evaluating how each version interprets the source text.
- RI.9-10.7
Analyze various accounts of a subject presented in different print and non-print formats, determining which details are emphasized in each account.
- RI.7.7
Compare and contrast a print to a non-print version of a text, analyzing each media's portrayal of the subject and its impact on the audience.
- RL.7.7
Compare and contrast reading a print text and viewing its visual/oral presentation, analyzing the effects of techniques unique to each medium.
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