Hamlet Literary Groups
Role: Newspaper
Objective:
To identify significant events in the Act and relate those events to character motivation, time period, and/or
corresponding events
Evaluation and analysis of key ideas and characterizations from the Act.
Responsibilities:
Your team will be responsible for creating the front page of a newspaper. Materials will be provided in class, though you are welcome to
bring additional markers/supplies from home.
Required items:
Group - Full poster board containing:
 Minimum of one news story per team member
 Minimum of three graphics/illustrations to go with articles
 Minimum two ads for era-appropriate items (with graphics) – APPROPRIATE!!
 Newspaper title (relevant to Hamlet and/or Shakespeare)
Group Instructions:
 Articles:
o Decide which stories are newsworthy
o Decide who will write each story (ONE article per team member)
 “Extras”
o Decide who will be responsible for pictures, ads, layout, and title. You may use illustrations or computer-generated
graphics. DO NOT USE pictures of the actors from the Hamlet video, or ANY pictures from ANY Hamlet version. They
must be era-related, but not ‘plagiarism’
o EACH person is responsible for at least one “extra”
 ALL ARTICLES MUST BE TYPED INTO ONE GOOGLE DOC AND SUBMITTED TO TII – YOU MUST SHARE
YOUR GOOGLE DOCS WITH ME AS YOU ARE WORKING ON THEM. I CAN SEE BY COLOR WHO IS
CONTRIBUTING AND WHO IS NOT. IF YOU DO NOT INCLUDE ME IN THE SHARING OF YOUR TEAM WORK
ON GOOGLE DOCS/GOOGLE DRIVE, ALL TEAM MEMBERS WILL RECEIVE A GRADE OF ZERO FOR ALL
ASPECTS OF THEIR PRESENTATION.
Individual Instructions:
 You are a journalist. Your job is to inform the people of your town about the events that have occurred in your Act.
o Be specific about people involved, actions, reactions, emotions, decisions, etc. Include necessary background information,
even if it is from a previous act.
o Organization and sentence structure are important. Be sure to revise and proofread carefully. This will be displayed in a
public place!
o For your “extra,” you can include a visual to go with your article or write a clever advertisement for a product the people of
the town might want to buy. The item should be era-appropriate, school appropriate, and possibly related to the characters
or the events in the Act. It can be your own invention.
SAMPLE ORGANIZATION SHEET:
Article 1- Topic _____________________/Author____________________ Photo? Yes/No
Article 2- Topic ____________________/Author ____________________ Photo? Yes/No
Etc.
EXTRAS
Ads:
________________/Created by___________________
________________/Created by___________________
Layout:
All articles, pictures, and ads will be electronically submitted to ____________________by _________ (date) to be
formatted, printed, and mounted on poster board.