As I've written a number of times in the past few weeks, our class has been doing an author study on Chris Van Allsburg. Today, we watched the movie version of his book Zathura. The students really enjoyed it! As we were watching it, the students were keeping track in their journals of similarities and differences between the book and the movie version - here are some of the things they noticed:
Similarities:
Danny and Walter were fighting with each other at the beginning, but then were nice to each other by the end. - Cam W.
Walter got ejected through a hole in the roof. - Dylan
There was a robot in the book and the movie. - Hailey M.
Meteor showers coming though the ceiling and wall happened in the movie and the book. - Alexandra
Differences:
In the book there was no pet hamster, but in the movie there was. - Joey
In the book, Danny and Walter didn't have a sister, but they did in the movie. - Kaynen
They didn't say in the movie that they tied Walter up to a couch when he was floating. - Jenna
There were goats with four eyes in the movie, but not in the book. - Lexi
2 comments:
This sounds like an interesting movie! I didn't know that Chris Van Allsburg wrote the book Zathura. Maybe I can borrow it sometime?
Ms Welbergen
Van Allsburg did indeed write 'Zathura' - it is the sequel to 'Jumanji'! Yes, you can borrow it :)
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