Lesson Activity Print
Movie Adaptations of Books
This activity will help you meet these educational goals:
You will analyze multiple interpretations of drama (such as a recorded or live production of a play) and evaluate how each version Interprets the source
text.
Directions
Read the instructions for this self-checked activity. Type in your response to each question, and check your answers. At the end of the activity, write a
brief evaluation of your work.
Activity
Many famous works of fiction have been made into successful films and television series. Making movies from popular books puts pressure on
moviemakers to match up to the standards set by the book's author. Read task A and task B. Then pick one task and write a response. In the
answer box for the task you did not complete, write "See other task."
Task A
Have you ever watched a movie adapted from a book that you read and enjoyed? Which version did you like better--the book or the movie? List
some of the major differences that you noticed between the book and the movie. What might be the reasons for these differences? Write your
response in two or three short paragraphs.
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assignment

analyzing characters

respond to the following questions in one paragraph for each. use specific examples from the text to support your responses.

1. there is a set of twins on the island named sam and eric. however, when describing them, golding regularly refers to them as samneric. how does this way of describing the twins relate to their behavior and the way that readers understand their characters? what examples of their behavior readers see that samneric is really the appropriate way to refer to them?

2. as the boys set out to search for the beast, ralph allows jack to lead the way, and he sinks to the back of the pack, " to have escaped responsibility for a time." what does this moment lead you to infer about ralph and about his feelings about being the group’s leader? what does this moment foreshadow?

3. while part of the party searching for the beast, simon realizes that the notion of the beast that the other boys have does not make sense. a beast sitting atop a mountain with claws, a beast who did not leave tracks, could have easily caught the twins. simon has a different picture of the beast: "there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick." how does this picture relate to the beast that samneric saw? how does it relate to what simon said earlier about the beast being "only us"?

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