Sometimes, the movie version of a book can provide additional details about the source material, particularly when the film is thoughtfully directed and well-acted. Ninth graders watch a two-minute clip from the movie Temple Grandin and compare the scene with the cattle chute design presentation from the first chapter of Grandin's book, Animals in Translation. Class members then formulate possible research inquiries about what they have read, viewed, and want to learn.

Concepts

informational texts, central ideas, autism, textual analysis, textual evidence, text structure

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Assign the film for home viewing or show the entire film after school or during lunch if you don't have time during class
• Host a discussion for learners to come up with as many possible research inquiries as possible

Classroom Considerations

• Refer to the link to the film clip on page three
• Be sure that your class can discuss autism in a sensitive and supportive way
• The lesson is the seventh in a series of ten

Pros

• Provides a worksheet to compare the film and the book, and with a few minor changes, you could use the worksheet in another unit
• Comes with a complete module overview for context

Cons

• None

Common Core

RI.9-10.7 W.9-10.8