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Understanding By Design
(Developed by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe, 2002)
Introduce Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and the 1996 movie Romeo and Juliet.
Read Act 5 Scene 3 Romeo and Juliet’s death scene.
Watch this scene from the movie. https://youtu.be/xcSwBHs1uD4
After movie, students will complete Compare/Contrast Guide Appendix A. The student
will write what we have talked about and read during this lesson and something that the
student has noticed.
Lesson Two: Discuss if anything came to mind that someone might want to mention from
previous lesson. Remind students of the comparison and contrast of the scene.
Discuss the differences. Ask students have they noticed the differences in how characters
are displayed in books and movies.
https://youtu.be/TKSlH-1XZho This video describes the differences between the
characters in the book and the movies of Harry Potter.
Have student complete Thinking Critically about the Movie Adaptation of a Character
about Frankenstein.
Lesson Three:
Read an excerpt from Hamlet where Hamlet kills Claudius, Act 5 scene 2 and watch the
fight between Scar and Simba in The Lion King. https://youtu.be/c8nHCZqgFA8 . Read
scene when Hamlet sees father’s ghost, Act 1 scene 5 and watch when Simba sees
Mufasa’s ghost: https://youtu.be/PZfeR-QE5io Complete Book/Movie Venn Diagram
Discussion of movies that students may have seen but not read the book. This discussion
is more candid. Students will not be reading or watching. It is for them to realize there
are differences and similarities between books and movies. I will encourage students to
read the book even if they do not do it first.
Lesson Four: Rewrite a scene from a movie that we have talked about or another
book/movie that the student has read or seen using Storyboard That. Students are to limit
it to three panels. Put name their name on the last panel. The panels are to have
conversation.
Appendix A
“Movie vs. Book”
Compare and Contrast Guide
Setting: Setting:
Appendix B
Books and Movies Name ________________________
Book/Movie ________________________________
1. Considering the excerpt that we have read from the book and watched from the
3. Did this decision increase your understanding and enjoyment of the story?
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