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Compare/Contrast? Cause/Effect? Problem/Solution?
USING VISUALS AND TEXT STRUCTURE TO CREATE A POSTER
HIGHLIGHTING A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
The Lightning Thief and “Percy Jackson and the Olympians”
For this group project, you will work with a partner or a group of no more than
four classmates to create a poster evaluating a literary element difference between
the book, The Lightning Thief, and the movie, “Percy Jackson and the Olympians.”
(LITERARY ELEMENTS are setting, plot, theme, characters, and resolution.)
Your poster must contain:
 A VISUAL illustrating the difference(s) in the literary element central to
your analysis
 A clear, clever title that draws your audience to your idea.
 A SUMMARY STATEMENT that explains your analysis in a brief, clear
way. In other words, when someone looks at your poster, s/he should
be able to understand the idea by just looking at the title, visual, and
summary statement.
 A short, clear compare/contrast paragraph explaining your idea about
the differences you display in the poster. The paragraph should
include a conclusion about the impact of this difference on the
audience. Use the “Comparison and Contrast Text Structure Frame to
help you write this paragraph.
 A short, clear cause/effect OR problem/solution paragraph explaining
the possible reasons for the moviemaker’s decision to change the
book. The conclusion can include your opinion on whether the change
is an effective one. Use the “Cause and Effect” OR “Problem and
Solution” Text Structure Frame to help you write this paragraph.
On the back of this handout
is a LIST OF POSSIBLE IDEAS for your group/partnership
to consider. Have fun!!
POSSIBLE TOPICS TO EXPLORE
1. Differences in characters:
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
Age of main characters Annabeth and Percy (13 vs. 17)
Physical characteristics – for example, Annabeth as a curly blonde or a straight-haired brunette;
Clarisse is absent from the movie
Annabeth the book character or Annabeth with Clarisse-like details?
Sally’s treatment in the movie
Grover as shy and clumsy or outgoing, funny, and interested in girls!
2. Character relationships –
a. Percy’s relationship with his biological father, and how that relationship develops
b. Percy and Luke and their final “battle”
c. The relationship between the god/desses and their children
3. Differences with mythological characters:
a. Persephone – With her mother because it is not winter or held hostage by Hades?
b. Ares – should he be a major (book) or minor (movie) character?
c. The mythological characters are different in each and Dionysus isn’t seen at camp at all in the
movie.
d. Differences in the physical appearances of the god/desses.
e. Hades portrayal: cold and unfriendly or somewhat humorous?
4. Setting differences:
a. Camp Half-blood cabins – should they have specific features catering to the patron god/dess or be
tents scattered through the woods?
b. Denver or the Parthenon in Nashville, Tennessee
c. Differences in Cabin Three
d. The entrance to the Underworld
e. Differences in the Underworld
5. Differences in “props” –
a. Should Percy’s “secret weapon” have a name (book – Riptide) and look like a cap pen or be a
nameless click pen?
b. Use of technology – for example, Medusa – a glass ball or an iPod Touch?
c. Luke’s flying shoes
d. The Master Bolt treatment
e. Gods’ thrones
6. Differences in plot details
a. The Capture the Flag game
b. Sally vs. Grover being left behind in the Underworld
c. Why Percy goes to Hades
7. Book details absent in the movie (NOTE: USE CARE IF SELECTING ONE OF THESE, AS YOU WILL
HAVE TO FIND A “DIFFERENCE” IN THE MOVIE THAT EXPLAINS WHY THIS PARTICULAR DETAIL IS
ABSENT)
a. The Oracles
g. Nancy Bobofit
b. Thalia’s Tree
h. The Zoo truck
c. The Big House
i. Hades’ Helm of Darkness
d. The Pact of the Big Three
j. Annabeth’s necklace
e. Lotus Hotel and Casino
k. The Mist
f. Sally and Percy’s summer trip
l. Percy and Annabeth’s Thrill Ride O’
Love in Waterland
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