This paper contains both a lesson plan for the writing of a movie review by students, including film analysis and other related lesson plans, and my response to the original assignment that I created for an Intermediate Writers' Workshop 11th grade English students at Hopkins High School. The original assignment, a peer review worksheet, assignment assessment, and two student reviews are attached. Purpose: To provide students with a critical context for the analysis of film. They will learn how to think about film using familiar literary concepts as well as the vocabulary of the medium. They will extend their...
was filled with stereotypes and unrealistic events. If you could look past all that, the movie might be enjoyable. I thought if they had added some new ideas into the movie to make it exciting, it would have been a much better film. After watching countless Bond movies, it's just not fun anymore. If the writers made the people in the movie a little more real to life, and the action scenes a little less predictable, this could have been a much better movie. I do recommend it to action fans, but not anyone who wants a movie with depth.