Comparasion Wks
Indiana Common Core Standards:
• Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two different artistic mediums, including what is emphasized or absent in each treatment.
• Analyze various accounts of a subject told in different mediums, determining which details are emphasized in each account.
• Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
• Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.
Part One Directions: Use the following criteria to compare the film Simon Birch to the short story The Scarlet Ibis.
Simon Birch Scarlet Ibis Similarities/Differences
Characters
• Main characters
• Protagonist/Antagonist
• Round/Flat
• Static/Dynamic
• Evidence—use a quote from the text AND a line from the story to back up your answer Simon and joe
Doodle and his big brother They erre both narrated by the second character
Plot
• Setting impact on plot (if any)
• Events
• Evidence
Motivations
• Characters
• Same/different?
• Evidence
Tries to say that he is gods instrument
Point of view
• First or third person?
• Limited or omniscient?
• Evidence First person
First person They were both in first person and the narrator wasn’t the
• Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two different artistic mediums, including what is emphasized or absent in each treatment.
• Analyze various accounts of a subject told in different mediums, determining which details are emphasized in each account.
• Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
• Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.
Part One Directions: Use the following criteria to compare the film Simon Birch to the short story The Scarlet Ibis.
Simon Birch Scarlet Ibis Similarities/Differences
Characters
• Main characters
• Protagonist/Antagonist
• Round/Flat
• Static/Dynamic
• Evidence—use a quote from the text AND a line from the story to back up your answer Simon and joe
Doodle and his big brother They erre both narrated by the second character
Plot
• Setting impact on plot (if any)
• Events
• Evidence
Motivations
• Characters
• Same/different?
• Evidence
Tries to say that he is gods instrument
Point of view
• First or third person?
• Limited or omniscient?
• Evidence First person
First person They were both in first person and the narrator wasn’t the