Have students rehearse this sentence stem once with a partner: “The director emphasizes ___, which changes ___ because ___.”
Prompt students to move from naming a film choice to explaining its effect on the viewer.
If students say the movie is just different, press for specificity: Which exact camera, dialogue, or pacing choice are you referring to?
You said “The clip felt scarier”—we can explain that by saying “The adaptation intensifies the tone through lighting, camera angle, and pacing.”
You said “Percy sounded less funny”—that idea connects to omitted narration because the film removes part of the character voice readers hear in the novel.
The director emphasizes ___, whereas the novel emphasizes ___.
A key difference in medium is ___, which affects ___.
This critique matters because viewers/readers experience Percy as ___.
Encourage students to draw on their experience reading images, films, games, or visual storytelling outside class as a valid analytical resource.
Affirm that there can be more than one reasonable critique of the same clip if each claim is grounded in evidence. Provide sentence frames for multilingual learners based on their proficiency levels as appropriate, and gradually reduce these supports as students become independent. Emerging: In the film, ___. In the book, ___. Expanding: The director emphasizes ___, whereas the novel emphasizes ___. Bridging: The director emphasizes ___, which changes ___ because ___, while the novel relies on ___.
