Wuthering Heights Lesson Plan

Adaptation: Comparing and Contrasting

Kind of Activity:

Group Work

Objective:

Students will be able to analyze, evaluate, and articulate the choices that go into adapting stories to another genre

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.3; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.7; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.9; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.2; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.4; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.5

Structure:

Form students into small groups (about 4 students per group) who watched the same movie adaptation the previous night. Groups have 45 minutes to come up with a presentation that explains the most signifcant ways in which their movie was different from a) the novel Wuthering...