Any movie will do. Make sure your students understand that a review must contain facts and information as well as opinion. Begin the next week with a visit to a Web site that feature reviews and writing about films by young people. New reviews are featured there each week. If your class is net-wise and ambitious, perhaps they can turn their reviews into a Web site of their own, or into a newsletter they can distribute weekly to other classes at your school.
Different audiences expect to get their written information in different formats and styles.
Newspaper reporters and screenwriters both deal with drama and dramatic events. But they write about them very differently. Screenwriters, on the other hand, like to dribble their information out for dramatic reasons. The punch in their writing often comes at the end of their story, where the conflict is resolved. Find examples of dramatic stories from The Sacramento Bee .