Showing a film with a text shouldn't feel like filler.

Here's what usually happens: You show a film with a text. Students notice things that changed. You have a conversation about "the book vs. the movie." And then... nothing. It doesn't go anywhere. The comparison stays surface-level because students don't have a framework for thinking about why adaptations change what they change.

This freebie gives you five questions that reframe adaptation as argument. Every adaptation keeps something, changes something, and does so for a reason. The changes aren't failures...they're choices. And choices reveal meaning.

Once students learn to ask these questions, they can apply them to anything: West Side Story, Clueless, The Lion King, 10 Things I Hate About You, or whatever you're pairing in your classroom.

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What's inside:

• The 5 Questions framework (works for any adaptation)

• A Taylor Swift / Romeo & Juliet example you can use as a mini-lesson

• A reproducible student handout

• Discussion questions for any text pairing

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