MODULE 5: SELF AND

PEER ASSESSMENT OF A
LITERARY TEXT’S
CREATIVE ADAPTATION
OBJECTIVES:
• To understand the concept of literary text
adaptation.
• To appreciate the importance of peer and self-
assessment in improving one’s learning.
• To perform assessment of the adaptation literary
forms using self and peer assessment based on
rationalized criteria.
This lesson focuses on performing a self and peer
assessment of a creative adaptation of a literary text.
Literature expresses human thoughts, feelings, sensations,
and imaginations. It recreates situations, relates
experiences and records events and history. As you go
through this lesson, you will be given the time to express
your own perceptions, feelings, creativity, and judgment by
making an adaptation of a literary text using multimedia
and ICT skills. You will also learn how to evaluate and
assess these literary adaptations.
THE IMPORTANCE OF PEER AND
SELF-ASSESSMENT
• It encourages you to take responsibility for your
learning by encouraging engagement with assessment
criteria and reflection of your own performance and
that of your peers. Through this, you can learn from
your previous mistakes, identify your strengths and
weaknesses and learn to target your learning
accordingly.
THE IMPORTANCE OF PEER AND
SELF-ASSESSMENT
• It makes you more active in your learning which in
this way, it can help to change the perception that
learning is a passive process whereby students simply
listen and absorb information for the sake of
compliance. In this way, students are more likely to
engage with their learning as participants instead of
just spectators.
THE IMPORTANCE OF PEER AND
SELF-ASSESSMENT
• it enables you to better understand
assessment expectations and work towards
improving your own performance. Getting
yourself more actively involved in your
assessment can make assessment itself a
means by which you can develop.
THE IMPORTANCE OF PEER AND
SELF-ASSESSMENT
Thus, Peer and Self-assessment are important to learn
for a student like you, and in order to achieve this, it is
essential that your assessment criteria are clear and
fully described through the help of your teacher. Taking
this step further and allowing you to contribute to the
assessment criteria can serve to transfer ownership,
fostering deeper engagement with the assessment and
learning.
WHAT IS LITERARY TEXT
ADAPTATION?
Literary adaptation 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. It involves adapting the same literary work in
the same genre or medium just for different purposes,
e.g. to work with a smaller cast, in a smaller venue (or
on the road), or for a different demographic group
(such as adapting a story for children).
WHAT IS LITERARY TEXT
ADAPTATION?
Personally, a good example of this is the “Hana Yori Dango” 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. The
school is *ruled* by F4 (aka Flower Four), a group of hot guys from
the country's richest families! The group's leader Domyouji Tsukasa
bullies her and later develops feelings for her, but Tsukushi falls for
his BFF Hanazawa Rui instead. The rest of the F4 members are
named Nishikado Sojirou and Mimasaka Akira. As the years have
gone by, several adaptations were made for this manga.
LITERARY ADAPTATION OF HANA
YORI DANGO
YEAR TITLE ORIGIN

1996 Hana Yori Dango Japan

2001 Meteor Garden Taiwan

2005 Hana Yori Dango Japan

2009 Boys Over Flowers Korea

2018 Meteor Garden China

2021 F4 Thailand Thailand

WHAT DO WE WANT IN THE
LITERARY ADAPTATION?
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? Which matters more: the quality of the film
itself, or how “accurate” it is to the book it’s based on?
Literary text and literary adaptation are different art forms
such as in the case for instance between novels and films.
Instead, she noticed four different types or “levels” of
adaptation. Each has varying degrees of adherence to their
source material.
TYPES/LEVELS OF ADAPTATION

The “Museum” adaptation

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.
TYPES/LEVELS OF ADAPTATION
The Artful adaptation
It is concerned with finding balance between being true to its
own as a work of art. Accordingly, it is like a conversation
between the book and audience. Rather than preserving every
detail like a museum, an Artful Adaptation finds the essential
elements of the book and interprets them in ways that
meaningful for the audience.
TYPES/LEVELS OF ADAPTATION

The Loose Adaptation

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.
TYPES/LEVELS OF ADAPTATION

The Transformative Adaptation

This type of adaptation seeks to highlight the

timelessness and universality of their source
works’ messages and themes.
Activity Time!
• Using any type of literary text, make a
literary adaptation of the flash fiction
entitled “Jake” written by Jim Bartlett.
• Do this activity with your chosen partner.
Assess your own works and works of
your partner using the desired rubrics or
criteria to be given by the teacher.
• Five partners will be randomly called and
they will present their works in front of
the class.
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Points to consider
The output is able to preserve the details of the
literary text.

The output is able to balance the author's message

and the student's interpretation.

The output is able to keep the flash fiction’s idea.

The output is able to highlight the universality and

timelessness of the story’s theme.

The output is able to utilize ICT and multimedia.

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PEER REPLY:
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