Voorhees Middle School

We will complete the Literary Analysis unit. For the unit, we will watch High Noon, a classic Western starring Gary Cooper, and  we will read "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell. From those two sources, students will write a compare and  contrast essay of the two stories.

• • Read the short story "The Most Dangerous Game".
  • Get the The Most Dangerous Game Study Guide.
  • Play The Most Dangerous Game Kahoot.
    • • Read the High Noon Screenplay.
  • Use the Literary Analysis Packet to keep track of the stories and complete your prewriting for the essays.
• We will study the lives of enslaved people of presidents from the book In the Shadowof Liberty by Kenneth C. Davis.
• We will study how an original story is turned into a film.
  • • • We will look at how 12 Years a Slave was turned into a film by reading a chapter from Solomon Northrup's book and then watching that scene from the film.
        • Read the excerpt from the book, 12 Years a Slave.
        • Watch the scene at the New York Times website.
        • Or watch the scene on Youtube here.

• We will study how an original story is turned into a film. 

  • • • See how to write a script and create a storyboard with Storyboarding Essentials.
      • View the Five Scripting Rules Youtube video.
      • View the History of Storyboarding With Tips.
      • View the Basics of How to Create a Storyboard.
      • View the Pixar Guide to Storyboarding.
        • Watch a scene from Monsters Inc. comparing the storyboard to the filmed scene.
        • Watch a scene from Toy Story comparing the storyboard to the filmed scene.
      • Try creating your own storyboard for this scene from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon or this scene from an unmade Spiderman movie. This video gives great advice for different ways of making storyboards, even if you're not much of an artist. Watch from 2:00 minutes to 8:00 minutes.
      • Read about the background for Raiders of the Lost Ark:
        • The Ark of the Covenant: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/ark.html.
        • See the lost city of Tanis.
        • A 1930s movie serial that inspired George Lucas and Steven Speilberg, Tim Tyler's Luck.
        • Read the Raiders of the Lost Ark shooting script.
        • View rare behind-the-scene photos from the making of the movie.
        • View the Art of the Scene for the boulder sequence.
        • View a shot breakdown of the Truck Sequence.
        • Watch The Simpsons parody the opening scene.
        • Get the Film Guide to keep track of points on the movie.