Just a little thing

Tonight I went to the ballet of Romeo and Juliet at the Covey Center.  I had never been to a ballet before, but since I was familiar with the story of Romeo and Juliet I was able to follow along.  This could be a fun exercise to do with students, to compare and contrast the same story being told through different media.  

There's the ballet 

The stage play

The 1968 film

And the 1996 film

All of these different productions tell the same story, but they tell it in a different way.  The films have more visual elements to them, and there are differences between the both of them.  The ballet has a more poetic beauty to it and the stage play was how Shakespeare originally wrote the story.  This activity could help students think of other familiar stories to them that are told and retold through different types of media.