Thursday, April 11th

Lesson Objectives - Students will present their teleplay samples with camera directions and dialogue.  They will then see this put into practice with the actual episode of "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street."
Homework - Paragraph Response: "Why are books often better than their movie adaptation?  Explain with examples."
Common Core Standards -

• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7.1 Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7.2 Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.
• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.7.3 Analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact (e.g., how setting shapes the characters or plot).