Self and Peer Assessment of Creative Adaptation of a Literary Text

Question 1

What is the Importance of
Peer and Self-assessment?

Answer 1

1. It encourages you to take responsibility for your
   learning.
2. It makes you more active in your learning.
3. It enables you to better understand assessment
   expectations.

Question 2

It is a process of adapting a literary source (e.g. a novel, short story, and poem) to another genre or medium such as a film, stage play, or video game.

Answer 2

Literary adaptation

Question 3

A manga series written by Yoko Kamio. It was set in Tokyo, Japan, and told the story of a middle-class
teenage girl named Makino Tsukushi who starts attending a prestigious high school called Eitoku Academy.

Answer 3

Hana Yori Dango

Question 4

What do we want in a
literary adaptation?

Answer 4

According to Watts (2020), in the article entitled “What do we want in a literary adaptation?”, there is complexity and difficulty
to commit as regards to determining: What makes a good
adaptation?

Question 5

This type is concerned with preserving every possible detail of the book exactly how it exists in the book, just transferred to the film as a medium.

Answer 5

The “Museum” Adaptation

Question 6

It is concerned with finding the balance between being true to its own as a work of art. Accordingly, it is like a conversation between the book and the audience.

Answer 6

The Artful Adaptation

Question 7

This type is concerned about keeping a few elements or some semblance of the premise of the book it’s based on, but then more or less does its own thing with them. Often, this type of adaptation is discussed in negative terms, as if its lack of exact similarity to its source material is somehow a failure.

Answer 7

The Loose Adaptation

Question 8

This type of adaptation seeks to highlight the timelessness and universality of their source works’ messages and themes.

Answer 8

The Transformative Adaptation