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Film Screening: The Avenger
Kind of Activity:
Technology
Objective:
Students will draw lessons by comparing and contrasting the text with an adaptation in a different medium.
Common Core Standards:
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.1 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.2 ; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.11-12.6
Structure:
For this exercise, students should watch the first 50 or so minutes of The Avenger, a 1962 adaptation of The Aeneid (watchable here on Dailymotion: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4f0e75)
Before beginning, the teacher should discuss the genesis of the film during the Motion Picture Production Code period of Hollywood (that is, when there was strict censorship of what could...
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