Reading Standards for Literature: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

7. Compare and contrast a written story, drama, or poem to its audio, filmed, staged, or multimedia

version, analyzing the effects of techniques unique to each medium (e.g., lighting, sound, color, or camera focus and angles in a film).

Country Cousin -- story to cartoon
perspective/angles -- huge cheese --
sound -- Music?   speech?
color?
contrast the cousins
  city -- "wasteful"  vs. licks his fingers
  way they wipe their faces

Why the champagne?

Purpose and audience --Humor?  Just for children?
out in traffic -- becomes less "realistic" -- horns    angles -- close up

8. (Not applicable to literature)

9. Compare and contrast a fictional portrayal of a time, place, or character and a historical account

of the same period as a means of understanding how authors of fiction use or alter history.

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