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Book Trailer Projects From Classroom to Community ActivityBook Trailer Projects From Classroom to Community Activity
Publisher
Virginia English Bulletin
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7th - 12th
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English Language Arts
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Activities & Projects
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Collaborative Learning
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Book Trailer Projects From Classroom to Community

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Invite your pupils to express their understanding of a novel through a collaborative video project. Groups choose a novel from those you have studied in class, select four scenes, storyboard the scenes, film the scenes, edit the film, and present the final product to the class. Materials are provided for the project.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

film, characterization, characters, literary themes, literary elements, plot, plot elements, literary analysis, storyboarding

Additional Tags

novel analysis, video project, Response to Reading, characterization, plot, theme, storyboard, film, aristotelian sequence, english language arts

Pros

  • Includes a project planning page, storyboarding pages, and a grading rubric
  • The project will engage learners in the text and require them to analyze the novel for important scenes

Cons

  • The resource calls the project a book trailer; however, the final product will be more of a summary in film form

Common Core

SL.7.5 SL.8.5 SL.9-10.5 SL.11-12.5

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