VidLit

Year after year , The Watsons Go to Birmingham has been one of my students' favorite books. They always want to know if there is a movie for a book that we are reading. There is no movie for The Watsons. I have told them that they would need to create a movie for the book.


Objectives:
Students will determine their favorite passage from the book and create a video segment for the passage.

Vocabulary: character, setting, scene, dialogue, script
Procedure:
Look at portion of a movie to see how different characters are portrayed.
Discuss character traits, inferred and stated.

Create a charcter sketch for one of the main characters in the book.
Use your character sketch to create :
a scene in which this charcter portrays or exemplifies the traits that you have assigned to him/her including dialogue, appearance,and other information that can be inferred about the character.
Create a poster advertising/announcing the book.
Prepare an introduction which will describe for the viewer what he/she will see.
Students will use a rubric to evaluate and rate the videos.