Back to the Bard
Project Work Week
Your task:
1. Analyze your speech for claims, evidence, rhetoric, and meaning.
2. Create an engaging way to present your findings to the class.
Here’s a run-down of this week’s schedule:
(M-W  Begin in classroom; finish in library.)
MONDAY:
 Annotate & Translate
Continue annotations from Friday.

Chart
Claims chart + Evidence-based claim chart
**Everybody turns in everything.
TUESDAY:
 Chart
Finish from yesterday
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Respond
Evidence of discussion
Prompt forthcoming
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Brainstorm presentation
WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY:
 Brainstorm.
 Produce.
FRIDAY:
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Vocab quiz
Edit/finishing touches
Schedule
*** YOU WILL EARN PARTICIPATION POINTS EACH DAY. This is a help
your or hurt you scenario. Here’s hoping for the former!
Back to the Bard Presentations
Your task: Present your analysis to the class, and invent a way to reproduce
your speech’s argument.
There are two parts to the project – 1) the presentation of your analysis,
and 2) Individual Response.
The first half will be easy. You will have done all of the work in class, and the rest
is just a matter of plug and play in your desired presentation platform. The second
half, the IR half, is the more challenging but creative portion.
I’m looking for evidence of deep and thorough work.
GUIDELINES
You must account for and provide the following:
Enough copies of your speech for your classmates (1st: 14; 5th: 20; 6th: 15)
INFORMATION
In the form of PowerPoint or Prezi…
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6.
What play your speech is from
The speaker’s claim
Three direct quotes that support the speaker’s claim
One original claim about the speech
Three direct quotes that support your original claim
Why it matters response
INDIVIDUAL RESPONSE
IR is exactly how it sounds – your unique, individual (or group) response to your
speech. The only catch is that you must re-create the speaker’s claim and evidence.
Some ideas:
Song/Rap
Poem
Children’s book
Skit
Memorization and performance
Photo essay
Video montage
Music response (songs that represent or crystallize the argument)
A letter
A diary entry
A modern retelling (recast, reset, etc.)
Scrapbook
Storyboard
Collage
RUBRIC:
I’m most concerned with the QUALITY of your work. Your work should show evidence of:
o TIME AND EFFORT.
o DEPTH AND CARE.
o THOUGHTFULNESS AND CREATIVITY.
In other words, your project should be something you’ve spent time thinking about, figuring out,
and putting together.
Not Attempted (0)
PowerPoint or Prezi
includes speaker’s
claim and three
supporting quotes.
Claim is accurate and
quotes are
convincing.
PowerPoint or Prezi
includes an original
claim and three
supporting quotes.
Claim is original and
intelligent and quotes
are convincing.
PowerPoint or Prezi
addresses Why It
Matters.
Response shows
evidence of
thoughtfulness and
consideration.
IR recreates speech’s
claim and evidence.
Shows evidence of
deep understanding of
claim and evidence.
IR shows evidence of
depth and care. It is
not superficial or
thrown together at the
last minute.
TOTAL:
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Attempted (1-3)
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