Romeo and Juliet projects - Integrated English
Directions:
- Students should review the following project choices.
- Each student must complete a minimum of two (2) projects from two (2) different acts. For example, a student can choose a project from Act II and Act IV. A student cannot choose two projects from the same act.
- All projects should be typed using Microsoft Word (when allowable).
- All projects are due within one week of when the class finishes reading a specific act.
- A student can start a project after a specific act test. If a student is not completing a project for a specific act, he/she will be required to work on “station” items.
- Five points will be deducted from grade for each day a project is late after each act. No projects will be accepted after the third day past the due date.
- A grading rubric will be provided.
- If there are any questions or concerns, please ask/see me.
Act I Choices
Write Romeo or Juliet's journal including the events from the entire play. This will count as two projects. Use detail and convey their inner thoughts and feelings. Each scene should be a new entry. If they are not in the scene, and they are aware of the scene include it. If they are not in the scene and unaware of the action, you don't need to include an entry.
This option can be done once for any act:
Write a sonnet summarizing any of the acts
-Use proper format and structure. Remember your octet and sestet; Iambic pentameter and rhyming couplet.
-Remember how Shakespeare writes his sonnets: problem/ solution format
Act I Choices
Artwork - Masquerade mask
Create a mask that could be used at the party in Act I.
-The mask can be hand-made or recreated using the computer software of your choice. (remember, research to see what the masques would look like. This is a major project....the mask may NOT be premade)
Writing - Advice Column
As either Romeo or Juliet, write a letter to an advice columnist requesting the help with the problem of falling in love with someone whom you are not supposed to love. First, list the reasons your love may be doomed. Next, write a letter that explains your list and asks for advice.
Act II Choices
Creative Design - Character Sketch
Construct a character sketch on a main character of your choice that illustrates the character’s personality, relationships, feelings, and motivations during this act. Your sketch will include images, quotes and words.
-The character sketch should include the following:
2 images of the character
4 images representing personality traits of the character
4 words to describe the character’s personality
3 quotes by the character
1 essay to describe the elements listed above. Use contextual evidence
All images should be put together in a collage using Microsoft Word, Publisher or a program of your choice. You should also include a paragraph explaining why you chose the specific items on your project.
Writing – Poetry (Iambic Pentameter)
Create a poem that consists of at least eight lines in iambic pentameter. Your poem may be in blank verse, consist of rhymed couplets, or follow some other rhyme scheme.
Creative Writing - Text message
Rewrite a dialogue between two characters that takes place in Act II of the text in modern-day format as if it took place via texting on a cell phone.
-Chose a section with a minimum of 25 consecutive lines. Make sure you write the Act #, Scene #, and line numbers on your paper.
You must provide a line by line comparison aside from your final project
Act III Choices
Visual - Imagery
Contrast imagery of light and brightness in Romeo’s monologue to the reference of dark imagery in Juliet’s monologue. Write an essay and use a graphic organizer on Microsoft Word.
Writing - Character Analysis
Choose one of the main characters introduced in Act I. Then write a short essay in which you analyze this character’s personality traits.
Writing - Editorial
Imagine that you are the editor of a newspaper in Verona at the time of the play. Write an editorial addressing the Prince’s response to the deaths of Tybalt and Mercutio.
1) Reread the Prince’s dialogue in the scene.
2) Decide whether Romeo’s sentence was appropriate, and explain.
3) Write the editorial, supporting your ideas with details from Acts I-III.
Act IV/ Act V Choices
Writing – Your own ending – THIS PROJECT HAS TO BE COMPLETED AFTER ACT IV
If you were to write your own ending for the play, what would it be? Write a narrative of events that would occur in your version of Act V. Make sure that your version develops naturally out of the events in Acts I through IV.
Music - Play list
Choose one of the characters from the text and create a play list of five songs that that character would have on his or her iPod or MP3 player. Invent the name for the play list. Burn a CD of the songs and create a CD label with the appropriate details or put the play list on your iPod or MP3 player. You also need to print out a list of the following:
1) artist name
2) name of song
3) name of album
4) Write at least a three paragraph analysis of each song to indicate the relevance to character (paragraph for each song)
Creative Writing - Digital Artifacts
Imagine that you find a portable disk next to the computer of one of the characters from the
play. It might be a USB keychain disk, or another device. This storage disk contains personal documents—letters, “to do” lists, data, and poems written by the character for his or her eyes’ only. Recreate the following files and hand in the device.
Include the following:
1) to do list with 10 tasks to complete
2) letter to a friend
3) poem to or about a loved one (minimum of 10 lines)
4) sales receipt for a purchased item - Include a detailed note attached to this list to describe items.
Creative Writing:
CHARACTER HOROSCOPES—
Superstition is used often throughout Romeo and Juliet. Daily horoscopes are a
modern-day form of superstition, and they usually give a somewhat vague
prediction of something that may happen to you that day. Write one “daily
horoscope” for each of the major characters in the story (Romeo, Juliet, The Capulets, Montagues, Friar L. , etc.). You may choose any scene from the act to write that
day’s horoscope about. Be sure to reference the act, scene, and, if applicable,
the line(s) the horoscope is referencing/predicting for the character. You should
have a total of at least FOUR horoscopes, one for each character. Each
horoscope should be about one paragraph in length. Note—you do not need to
make every character’s horoscope from the same day/scene. They can come from
practically anywhere in the play. Look at your daily horoscope in the newspaper or
online to help give you an idea of what to write.
