Scoring
10=A
9=B
8=C
7=C-
6=D
5 or less=F
5 point projects
Create a poster-size collage or timeline based on the play. Clearly label characters, events, etc.
Create a game based on the play. The entire class must be able toplay. It may be based on an existing game.
Turn one of the following 3 point assignments into 5 points byreading (or singing) to the class: modernized speech, poem, song, ornewscast.
3 point projects
Write a poem in a minimum of 16 lines based on the play. Noacrostic or haiku.
Create a song of no fewer than 16 lines based on a familiar tuneand the play. Indicate the tune it is to be sung to.
Modernize one of the following speeches: Antony Act III, sc ii;Brutus Act II, sc. i, Cassius Act I, sc. ii. Examples: 60'slanguage, business terms, rap, etc.
Write a news report as if you were on the scene, reporting live. Choose one of the major events in the play.
See below for a list of quotes. Identify the act, scene, speakerand occasion on which 12 of them were spoken.
1 point projects
Make a list of 20 outdated words. List the word, a definition anda modern day synonym.
Write a one page report on William Shakespeare using more sourcesthan just class notes.
Write a character sketch for any or all of the following : Caesar, Brutus, Portia, Anthony, Cassius. Include 15 characteristicsfor each; 1 point for each character. Must be in completesentences.
Quotes for Project
…but, for my own part, it was Greek to me.
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods.
Cry "Havoc ," and let slip the dogs of war.
The evil that men do lives after them;The good is oft interréd with their bones.
Beware the ides of March.
This was the most unkindest cut of all.
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
But I am constant as the northern star.
Yond ________________ has a lean and hungry look,He thinks too much; such men are dangerous.