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Cristina Paluch
Period 4

English, 9th grade

48 minutes

Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Movie Adaptation

Overview/Rationale
Students have finished reading As You Like It and are working on creating a performance
of their chosen scene from the play. Students have been given time to think about how
they will perform their scenes. Today they will think about how they would create a
movie version of the play and they will be asked to support their choices. Students will
then view three clips from movies and will be asked to compare what they see with what
they saw in the play. They will also talk about how different elements of the movies help
emphasize different parts of the play.
Enduring Understandings
Students will understand how various elements in film and drama can be used to
emphasize certain aspects of the storyline.
Goals/Objectives
Students will be able to compare the play performance they have seen to the movie clips
viewed in class today.
Students will be able to provide reasons for their choices as movie director.
Students will be able to identify elements such as costume, setting, camera angles, etc. to
describe the movie clips.
Students will be able to discuss how different movie elements emphasize different
aspects of the play.
Standards
CC.1.3.910.E Analyze how an authors choices concerning how to structure a text, order
events within it, and manipulate time create an effect. L.F.1.1.3 L.F.2.3.2 L.F.2.3.3
L.F.2.5.3
CC.1.2.910.C Apply appropriate strategies to analyze, interpret, and evaluate how an
author unfolds an analysis or series of ideas or events, including the order in which the
points are made, how they are introduced and developed, and the connections that are
drawn between them. L.N.1.1.3 L.N.1.3.3 L.N.2.3.3 L.N.2.3.5 L.N.2.4.1 L.N.2.4.3
Materials
As You Like It books, movie creation sheets, movie clip viewing sheets, DVD or YouTube
links to movie clips, group presentation sheets and notes
Procedures
Opener: Students will come in and be given the movie creation sheets as their do
now. They will be asked to think about how they would adapt this play into a movie and
why they would make the choices they make. They will be given time to reflect on this
individually and write down their answers in preparation for a class discussion.

Body of the Lesson: Students will be given time to share out their own choices as
if they were a movie director. They will explain why they made the choices they made
and what they wanted to emphasize in their adaptation of the play. Students will then be
given a movie viewing chart and will be asked to think about the play they saw last week
and write down what they remember about three different scenes. They will then view
movie clips of those scenes and will fill in their chart. Students will be asked to notice
costumes, setting, actors, etc. and will be asked to reflect on how these scenes are
portrayed based on these elements. Students will then engage in a class discussion about
the way in which the scenes were presented and how that will inform their own choices
about their presentations.
Closure: Students will be given the last few minutes of class to hear about the
scenes they selected for their presentations and make any adjustments in planning with
their group members. How does todays lesson make you think differently about the
scene you will be performing and how you will present it?
Accommodations
Students will be given time to reflect on their own before they will be asked to discuss as
a whole class. Students will also be encouraged to ask their classmates questions about
the different adaptations of the play.
Assessment/Evaluation
Students will be assessed on their abilities to create their own movie choices and give
reasons for their choices. Students will also be assessed on their observations about the
play and the movie clips and their ability to discuss the importance of the choices being
made for each scene.
Personal Reflection/ Notes
Todays ninth grade lesson was focused on looking at movie adaptations of the play (As
You Like It) and comparing them to the theatrical performance we saw at the Lantern
Theater last week. Students are preparing to act out their own scenes next week and have
to make choices such as costumes, props, delivery of lines, etc. Today we started the class
with a do now that asked students to imagine they were making the play into a movie and
had to make choices about setting, costumes, actors, etc. The students seemed to enjoy
this and they shared out their choices while also explaining why they would make those
choices. I then gave them time to think about the play we saw the week before and told
them to reflect on three different scenes (Act 2 Scene 7, Act 3 Scene 2, and the Epilogue).
They wrote down what they noticed about the way in which those scenes were presented.

Due to the fact that we saw the play over a week ago, students said had a little trouble
remembering exactly what those scenes were like, but once we started discussing, I
noticed that they remembered more than they thought they would. We then watched a clip
from the 2006 movie version of Act 2 Scene 7 and students jotted down notes as they
watched. We then discussed the use of camera angles and the choices in setting and
costumes. Students made many interesting comments about how these elements
emphasize different parts of the play and how it was different from the theatrical
performance we had previously seen. We then watched the clip from the 1978 movie
version of Act 3 Scene 2 and students did the same thing. I think one of the things that
helped was having a chart for students to fill out while they were watching the clips. This
was an organized way for them to write down what they noticed and what they thought
the significance was. The only problem was that we didnt have enough time to watch the
final clip, but the discussion that resulted from the first two clips was fruitful.