Judy Ryan
Introduction
Standards 
Objectives
Activities
Assessment 
Results
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Introduction
Subject  Creative Writing
Topic: Script  (scene) Adaptation
Grade Level: 12
Student Lesson name and URL: http://ctap295.ctaponline.org/~jryan/student

This lesson is designed to supplement the understanding of  how Shakespearean plots can be applied to modern day situations and characters. 
 
 

Standards Addressed 
 [California State Standards and SJUSD standards addressed]
12th Grade

English/creative writing

3.0  Literary Response and Analysis
    3.2 Analyze the way in which the theme or meaning of a selection represents a view or comment on life, using textual evidence to support the claim.
  1.0  Writing Applications
   2.2 (b) imagery, language and appropriate themes
   2.3 (b) draw comparisons between specific incidents and broader themes that illustrate the writer's important beliefs or generalizations about life.
 

San Juan Unified School District Standards addressed:

Standard 3: theme represents a comment on life
Standard 5: analyze imagery, language and universal themes

Instructional Objectives
1.  Identify and list with examples, the important 
themes in a selected Shakespearean play.
2.  Describe the characters, setting, theme and conflict
in a particular piece of literature.
3.  Translate ideas found in the Shakespearan play into
a script that is modern day.
4.  Draw comparisons between a modernized film version of Taming of the Shrew with the original script.
5.  Compose a script of a particular Shakespearean
scene.
6.  Demonstrate understanding of important themes ideas, character and conflict found in a Shakespearean
scene by enacting an original modern day script of the
same scene
 
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Student Activities

Introductory Activity

Begin by reviewing what we've learned while reading and 
discussing Hamlet.  Group work on themes and characters and
their modern day application.

Group leader reports back how various aspects of Hamlet seem
much like our modern world.

Introduce another play, The Taming of the Shrew, by handing out a
a description of the basic plot of the play.  Explain that they will be
shown a modern day film, Ten Things I Hate About You and be asked to
draw comparisons between its content and The Taming of the Shrew.
 

Enabling Activities

Give each student a form that is divided into sections for characters
locations, goals, motivations, conflicts, resolutins.  Each student will
write down similarities they recognize between Shrew and this film.

View film:  Ten Things I Hate About You.

Bring ideas to group, share and compile one good comprehensive list
of the similarities they saw between the film and the play.Evaluations should be made about which medium did a better job in depicting
character, setting, conflicts, etc.

Next, explain they will be reading and discussing a variety of scenes
from different Shakespearean plays with the goal of chosing one to rewrite in modern terms in a modern day setting, etc.
 

Culminating Activity

A three-four page typed script that will be performed for the class.  They must include character masks they have made or dress according to the part.
 

Assessment

Teacher and student evaluation: presentation rubric used
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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