Students will be doing a summary of the play Romeo and Juliet based on their own
understanding (HA 150 words LA 150) and they would also be writing a short essay
about one thing that interested them (i.e. clothes, food, weapons) during the 1500s (HA
150 words LA 150).
What they would need to bring from home:
1) Black Card Board
2) Decorative pens and anything they would need to decorate their project board
5
Comprehension
Shows a high level of critical
thinking and understanding
of the play.
Shows basic understandingbut little
critical thinking.
Skillfully uses multiple specific
details to show insight into the
play’s plot,characters, and/or
main themes.
Responds to the text in a generic or
superficial way.
Demonstrates a high degree of
personal engagement with the
text.
Interprets the text with a high
degree of creativity (including
humor), without sacrificing
accuracy or clarity.
Creativity
3
Contains several
inaccuracies.
TOTAL
/15
Appears to have required a
superior amount of effort.
Demonstrates serious misconceptions about
thetext
Uses vague references relevant to the text’s
plot,characters, and/or main themes
Demonstrates minimal personal engagement
withthe text
Uses few specific details relevant to
the text’s plot,characters, and/or
main themes.
Interprets the text with some
creativity, with several inaccuracies
and/ora frequent lack of clarity.
Uses some tenses correctly in sentences
Perfect use of tenses in their
sentences
Neatness/Effort
1
Appears to have required some
effort.
Interprets the text with
little or no creativity
No proper use on any tense in their
sentences
Appears to have required
minimal effort.