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Adapting “Crazy Sunday” to Film
Kind of Activity:
Artistic Response
Objective:
Objective: Students will make part of “Crazy Sunday” into a movie to explore the relationship between setting, structure, and perspective.
Common Core Standards:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.3
Structure:
Part 1: Planning
Students should be broken up into groups of four. One of the students will be a videographer and the rest will be actors.
Altogether, students should find a scene in the text that they wish to adapt into a film: ideally, the scene should have at least three speaking parts. If it has only two, the third actor can either alternate with one of the others or can serve as a...
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