Shakespeare:

Please choose one of the following projects:

Assignment #1: Hamlet: Grief Session


Directions: You are a psychiatrist and have begun counseling a new patient recently. In a 500 word, two page typed paper, please file a report on your findings. Please use specific examples from Acts 1-4 to support you end recommendations. You are required to look at all of his soliloquies and dialogue, which should be used as direct conversations given in his therapy sessions.

Please follow the following rubric:



1.) Start with an opening paragraph which needs to state your overall opinion of Hamlet’s mental state. 20 points



2.) In your body, please detail 4 examples which support your thesis.

40 points



3.) Please end with a final paragraph restating your diagnosis. Please end your report with your recommendations. 20 points



4.) Paper is typed, with proper grammar and punctuation 20 points           Assignment #2: So You Want to be a Movie Star?

Please take an act of Hamlet, and film a modern version.

Pick a scene in Acts 1-4 to perform in front of the class. You must do a full complete scene, which includes all of the key events. Before you begin, your group must make a master script which needs to be followed. Your script can be “modernized” to help you learn the lines.



Part of your grade will be on costumes. These do not have to be elaborate, but do need to show some effort. In other words, please do not wear what you would normally for school.



Your projects will be graded on the following:
Script 5 10 15
Effort 10 20 30
Costuming 5 10 15
Lines 5 10 15
Interpretation 10 20 25
Of the Scene



Final video should be 5-10 minutes long and submitted as a .mov, mp4, or DVD




Assignment #3: Graphic Novel




Take an act of the play, and convert it into a graphic novel.

Please visit http://www.killshakespeare.com/ for ideas and inspiration.



Your projects needs to be 20-30 animated frames

You need to completely re-tell the events of an entire act

You need a creative, colorful title.