Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald Lesson Plan

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...