Grade 08 ELA - Standard: CC.1.3.8.G
Grade 08 ELA - Standard: CC.1.3.8.G
Continuum of Activities
The list below represents a continuum of activities: resources categorized by Standard/Eligible Content that teachers may use to move students toward proficiency. Using LEA curriculum and available materials and resources, teachers can customize the activity statements/questions for classroom use.
This continuum of activities offers:
- Instructional activities designed to be integrated into planned lessons
- Questions/activities that grow in complexity
- Opportunities for differentiation for each student’s level of performance
Grade Levels
8th Grade
Course, Subject
English Language Arts
Activities
- Identify similarities and differences between a written story or drama and its filmed or live production version.
- Identify key decisions made by the directors and actors of a filmed or live production of a story or drama.
- Create a Venn diagram to compare the similarities and differences between a filmed or live production of a story or drama and the text or script used as source material.
- Describe the impact of key decisions made by the directors and actors of a filmed or live production of a story or drama.
- Explain the relationship between a filmed or live production of a story or drama, and cite the text or script used as source material.
- Evaluate whether the decisions of the directors and actors of a filmed or live production of a story or drama remain faithful to or depart from the text or script.
Answer Key/Rubric
- Student identifies similarities and differences between a written story or drama and its filmed or live production version. The identification displays an understanding that a written story can be presented in a different medium resulting in a separate unique text. Student accurately identifies similarities and difference between the written story’s plot, characters, conflict, theme, and setting, and the extent to which they are presented in the filmed or live production of the story.
- Student identifies key decisions made by the directors and actors of a filmed or live production of a story or drama. Acceptable responses may include, but are not limited to, an identification of lighting, colors, camera angles, flashbacks, removed or added scenes, acting, montages, music, set/wardrobe design as key decisions made by the directors, and actors of a filmed or live production of a story or drama.
- Student compares the similarities and differences between a filmed or live production of a story or drama, and cites the text or script used as source material. Using evidence from the text or script used as source material, the student compares the reflection or departure of the filmed or live production of a story from its written form. Student accurately compares the similarities and differences between the source material’s plot, characters, conflict, theme, and setting and the extent to which they are presented in the filmed or live production of the story.
- Student describes the impact of key decisions made by the directors and actors of a filmed or live production of a story or drama. An accurate response describes the impact of key decisions (lighting, colors, camera angles, flashbacks, removed or added scenes, acting, montages, music, set/wardrobe design) on the meaning of a story or drama.
- Student explains the relationship between a filmed or live production of a story or drama, and cites the text or script used as source material. The student accurately explains the reflection or departure of story elements, including plot, characters, conflict, theme, and setting from a filmed or live production of the story. The explanation, rooted in textual evidence, correctly describes the alignment of the story elements presented in a filmed or live production of a story or a drama.
- Student evaluates whether the decisions of the directors and actors of a filmed or live production of a story or drama remain faithful to or depart from the text or script.
