I'll be using Hook as my example presentation. Here's the video that got me started.
The transcript for the video reads as follows:
Director Steven Spielberg is joined by Dustin Hoffman, Robin Williams, Julia Roberts, and Bob Hoskins to create the epic fantasy adventure inspired by author JM Barrie's classic 1904 stage play, Peter Pan. Hook is the all-new story of Peter as a grown man with no memory of who he once was. Peter Banning is a man who's forgotten how to enjoy his life, a man who has no imagination and the twist of this story is he once was imagination personified. He once was the Pan when he was 12 years old. He grew up, lost his imagination, and he became a sort of face in the crowd, and his kids are kidnapped by Captain Hook and taken to NeverLand to seek his revenge.
What’s the point? Peter Pan, the boy who couldn’t grow up, just like the rest of us, isn’t immune to waking up one day, looking in the mirror and realizing, “I’ve become everything I ever hated in life.” Start with the Mom joke I’ve seen all over the internet and go from there. Use the release date of the film, who wrote the play and when, then tell your own version of how Pan turned into Banning.
A wise woman once said, “Sometimes when I open my mouth, my mother comes out.” Most adults have felt this at one time or another. “What happened to me? I used to be so young and carefree. Now I’m just one big ball of stress and anxiety.” It would probably make us feel better to know that our heroes do the same thing. In 1991, Steven Spielberg released a film entitled Hook, where we see that Peter Pan himself has left Neverland, become mortal, then grown up to be a workaholic lawyer with no time for his wife and children, but all the time in the world for his job, which in this case, means clearing a forest to the ground for a multi-million dollar real estate deal. The movie takes J.M. Barrie’s stage play from 1904, and brings it into the current day. Even though you’ll see Peter with the biggest, clunkiest cell phone in current movie history, Hook has a lot to say about how we grow older, and colder, and gives us some simple lessons about how to become more of the child we wish we still were.
What does this paragraph make me want to learn about the original play? How did J.M. Barrie look at the idea of staying eternally young? How does Hook look at that same question? That’s how I’ll compare the play with my movie, and that’s the paragraph I’ll seek out for tomorrow’s assignment.
As you put your paragraphs together, to make sure it's a true paraphrase, here's how to do it.
Director Steven Spielberg is joined by Dustin Hoffman, Robin Williams, Julia Roberts, and Bob Hoskins to create the epic fantasy adventure inspired by author JM Barrie's classic 1904 stage play, Peter Pan. Hook is the all-new story of Peter as a grown man with no memory of who he once was. Peter Banning is a man who's forgotten how to enjoy his life, a man who has no imagination and the twist of this story is he once was imagination personified. He once was the Pan when he was 12 years old. He grew up, lost his imagination, and he became a sort of face in the crowd, and his kids are kidnapped by Captain Hook and taken to NeverLand to seek his revenge.
What’s the point? Peter Pan, the boy who couldn’t grow up, just like the rest of us, isn’t immune to waking up one day, looking in the mirror and realizing, “I’ve become everything I ever hated in life.” Start with the Mom joke I’ve seen all over the internet and go from there. Use the release date of the film, who wrote the play and when, then tell your own version of how Pan turned into Banning.
A wise woman once said, “Sometimes when I open my mouth, my mother comes out.” Most adults have felt this at one time or another. “What happened to me? I used to be so young and carefree. Now I’m just one big ball of stress and anxiety.” It would probably make us feel better to know that our heroes do the same thing. In 1991, Steven Spielberg released a film entitled Hook, where we see that Peter Pan himself has left Neverland, become mortal, then grown up to be a workaholic lawyer with no time for his wife and children, but all the time in the world for his job, which in this case, means clearing a forest to the ground for a multi-million dollar real estate deal. The movie takes J.M. Barrie’s stage play from 1904, and brings it into the current day. Even though you’ll see Peter with the biggest, clunkiest cell phone in current movie history, Hook has a lot to say about how we grow older, and colder, and gives us some simple lessons about how to become more of the child we wish we still were.
What does this paragraph make me want to learn about the original play? How did J.M. Barrie look at the idea of staying eternally young? How does Hook look at that same question? That’s how I’ll compare the play with my movie, and that’s the paragraph I’ll seek out for tomorrow’s assignment.
As you put your paragraphs together, to make sure it's a true paraphrase, here's how to do it.
- Copy and paste your paragraph into a word document, with the web address of where you got it on the line above the paragraph itself.
- Write your own summary of what it means AFTER the paragraph, like I did above in the section that starts with "What's the point."
- Press return a bajillion times until the original paragraph isn't on your screen anymore, then write from your summary.
- Repeat the process. Our finished paper will be a standard five-paragraph essay: three bodies, plus an intro and conclusion.
