Adapting Literature

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 07.01.07

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. Objectives
  4. Strategies
  5. Film and Visual Representation
  6. Classroom Activities
  7. Notes
  8. Resources
  9. Appendices

Blade Runner Redux: Teaching a Sci-Fi Meta-Art Classic

Clary W. Carleton

Published September 2007

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Objectives

Students will be able to

  • Apply critical reading strategies at various stages of the reading process
  • Make inferences, connections, and predictions related to a text
  • use an online writing environment to engage in discourse with peers
  • identify and apply vocabulary related to novel and the SF genre
  • understand the elements of literature (characterization, theme, allusion)
  • understand the novel's structure and the doppelgänger effect
  • understand the elements of film (mise-en scène, camera angle/movement, light, color, sound, editing, special effects)
  • identify characteristics of film noir
  • understand the film's relationship to the myth of Frankenstein and the Fall of Man
  • identify, analyze, and articulate the intellectual and creative choices involved with film adaptation
  • gain experience with oral language through classroom discussion
  • use interpretive skills to explain significance of quotations and film stills
  • write a critical essay, commentary, or adaptation related to the book and/or film

Comments:

Jennifer Mcdonald

January 1, 2018 at 11:09 am

Helpful overview

I've been planning updates to our dystopic literature unit and found this unit very helpful. I had never head of DADES, and was looking for some fresh titles and connections to film. I had also been looking for a way to use Bladerunner, and am thrilled to see it broken down so well for me that I could likely utilize this in the upcoming semester and feel prepared (as there is never time to plan in my world). I'd love a thorough training/workshop on using dystopic literature in class, if one is ever offered. It is paramount that we bring the themes of such works to the future generations.

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