Appendix
Standards -- Oklahoma Academic Standards for English Language Arts -- 11th grade. These standards can be easily cross-referenced to other standards.
11.1.W.2 Students will work effectively and respectfully within diverse groups, demonstrate willingness to make necessary compromises to accomplish a goal, share responsibility for collaborative work, and value individual contributions made by each group member.
The culminating activity requires students to work in diverse groups, collaborating, and combining adaptation ideas to create their movie clip or trailer and to develop a modern-day soundtrack.
11.3.R.1 Students will evaluate the extent to which historical, cultural, and/or global perspectives affect authors’ stylistic and organizational choices in grade‐level literary and informational genres.
To understand the two novels and their characters, students must do some research and reading about the historical and cultural context to truly grasp the societal pressures in the 1950s and ‘60s. This will also aid in their adaptation because they will have to compare and contrast modern day context with the past in order to create their translation.
11.3.R.4 Students will evaluate literary devices to support interpretations of texts, including comparisons across text: imagery, tone, symbolism, irony.
Using their filmmaker notes, students will begin to closely read, annotate, and analyze these literary devices to first understand the major themes of these bildungsromans, but this will ultimately help them figure out ways to create their contemporary interpretation.
11.3.W.5 Students will use words, phrases, clauses, and varied syntax to connect all parts of the argument and create cohesion and include a conclusion that follows logically from the information presented and supports the argument.
When students write their persuasive letter to the authors’ families asking for the movie rights of the novels, students will be required to create a logical and convincing argument, along with examples and a solid proposal, to sway their audience.
11.7.R.2 Students will analyze the impact of selected media and formats on meaning.
By watching film clips and trailers and learning the language of film, students will learn to analyze and recognize film techniques and their effects on viewers.
11.7.W.2 Students will construct engaging visual and/or multimedia presentations using a variety of media forms to enhance understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence for diverse audiences.
For the final project, students will create their modern adaptation of either The Catcher in the Rye or The Bell Jar and film a movie scene or trailer using their smartphones, film editing apps, music, and text graphics. Targeting a modern teen audience, students will then present their scene or trailer to the class.
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