Rhinoceros Lesson Plan

Movie Viewing

Kind of Activity:

Technology

Objective:

Students will be able to consider the process of adaptation

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.7

Structure:

Watch the 1974 film adaptation of Rhinoceros, directed by Tom O'Horgan and starring Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder.

After viewing the film, students should be paired to discuss the following questions:

• How is the film version of Rhinoceros similar to the play?
• How is the film version of Rhinoceros different from the play?
• Why do you think O'Horgan and the screenwriter, Julian Barry, chose to make the changes they made? Would you have made different choices? If so, describe them and explain why.
• Were...