Holly+Jarjosa



Think of all the beauty still left around you. **And be happy.**

=__ **Research Article:** __=

= = =__ Book Recommendations: __=

[|Does My Head Look Big In This? by Randa Abdel-Fattah]

[|American Born Chinese by Gene Luan Yang]

[|Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi]

[|House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros]

[|A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah]

**__Articles for Teaching Presentation on Young Adult Literature:__**
Young Adult Literature in the Classroom...Or Is It? - http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/820642.pdf?acceptTC=true

= __Powerpoint Presentation on Young Adult Literature:__ =



="From Paper to Picture": = =__ Film and Literature Unit Plan __ =

= __Unit Overview__ =

[|Unit Overview for Film and Literature on Google Docs]

= __Lesson Plans__ =

[|Lesson Plans on Google Docs]

= __Assessment Plans__ =

[|Assessment Plans on Google Docs]

= __Sample Student Work - Trailer for //The Book Thief//:__ = media type="youtube" key="2gKcgWYhhHg" height="349" width="560"

= __Resources:__ =


 * __Handouts used in this unit plan:__**

- "Roles of a Film Crew" handout - "Book and Movie Comparison Guide" handout - "Text and Film Bookmark" handout - "Film Terminology" handout - "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson handout - Permission slip form - Excerpt of //Twilight// handout - Excerpt of //Holes// handout - Excerpt of //Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone// handout - Quiz sheet - Lecture on critically viewing movie


 * __Novels used in literature circles for unit plan:__**

- //The Book Thief// by Markus Zusak - //Feed// by M.T. Andersen - //Ashes, Ashes// by Jo Treggiari - //Shiver// by Maggie Stiefvater - //Does My Head Look Big in This?// by Randa Abdel-Fattah

__**Shorts stories used in this unit plan:**__

- "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson


 * __Movies clips and full length films used in this unit plan:__**

//- To Kill A Mockingbird// //- Harry Potter// //- Twilight// //- Holes//












 * SAMPLE QUIZ:**


 * __ Film Terminology Quiz: __**

1.) Describe what a soft focus is:

__2.) When the camera is BELOW the subject, it is called a__ angle. When the camera is ABOVE the subject, it is called a angle.

3.) This includes dialogue, music, sounds effects, and pitch:

__4.) This type of edit occurs when an image on screen slowly goes away and the screen becomes entirely black:__

__5.) The flashback and flash forward is a method of:__

__6.) All objects in the foreground remain in focus in this:__ _

7.) The close up shot takes up nearly percent of the screen.

8.) This is single, uninterrupted piece of film:

__9.) This technique is used to bring the background or the foreground into focus:__

10.) Think of two different terms or effects and apply them to your current literature circle book and describe how they would be used in a certain scene or chapter. = = =[|The Lottery by Shirley Jackson Link]=

=[|Google Docs Lecture on Critcally Viewing Movies]=