South Dakota ELA 11-12.RL.7

ELAGrades 11–12Reading Literature

The Standard

Analyze multiple interpretations of a story, drama, or poem in different artistic mediums, evaluating how each version interprets the source text.

South Dakota English Language Arts Standards (2025)

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students compare a story, play, or poem with two versions made in different media. They identify choices in sound, images, or performance and explain how those choices shape the meaning of the original work.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student can point to a line in the original work and a specific detail in each version. They can explain why the versions suggest different views of a character, mood, or theme.
Common Misconceptions: Students may call one version better because it is closer to the original work. They may describe what happens in each version without explaining how an artist's choices change its meaning.
How to Assess It: Give students a short poem, an audio reading, and an illustration. Ask them to name one choice in each version and explain which choice most changes how they read a line of the poem.

Lesson moves

Give pairs a printed poem, an audio reading, and an illustration; have them mark one line and label how each artist presents it.
After viewing two versions of a scene, ask: Which one makes the character seem less trustworthy, and what detail creates that impression?
Play choice sort: groups match cards labeled pause, color, and framing to examples from an audio reading and an illustration.
Show a novel passage, its book cover, and its film poster; have students explain which character trait each design tries to sell.

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