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Adaptations I
Kind of Activity:
Long-term Project
Objective:
To understand Cyrano's place in popular culture and its relationship to other texts
Common Core Standards:
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.1; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.7; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.9
Structure:
Cyrano has endured as an independent work, but by far its greatest impact has been as a source for adaptation. In this five-part, long-term project, students will choose an adaptation of Cyrano and study it in-depth, focusing on the intertextual links between their chosen adaptation, the original, and other adaptations. Seen in this way, Cyrano is a living text!
Each student, independently, will choose one...
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