Michigan Arts Education Instructional and Assessment Program
Michigan Assessment Consortium
THEATRE Assessment
Performance Task T.T405
Romeo and Juliet Costume Design
High School
Level 2
Teacher Booklet
Teacher Directions
Student Directions
Assessment Questions
Teacher Scoring Rubrics
Student Worksheets
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
“No Fear Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet” © 2005, www.sparknotes.com.
Gandhara Buddha, 1st-2nd century C.E., Tokyo National Museum, by Wikimedia user World
Imaging, 2004. Released into the public domain.
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Michigan Student Learning Standards Assessed
Performance
Standard(s)
TH.HS.P.3–Apply technical knowledge and skills, based
on dramatic text and research, to create functional
scenery, properties, lighting, sound, costumes, and
makeup.
Content Standard
ART.T.III.HS.1–Use the basic physical and chemical
properties of the technical aspects of theatre (such as
light, color, electricity, paint, and makeup).
VPAA Guidelines
C.1.1–Engage in full iterative cycles of the
artistic/creative process by problem seeking, exploring,
and making analytical, application, aesthetic, and design
choices before completion.
C.1.2–Develop an idea, questions, or problem that is
guided by the personal, historical, contemporary,
cultural, environmental, and/or economic contexts of the
visual, performing, or applied arts discipline.
C.1.3–Understand, recognize, and use elements,
organizational principles, patterns, relationships,
techniques, skills, and applications of the visual,
performing, or applied arts discipline.
C.1.4–Use the best available and appropriate
instruments, resources, tools, and technologies to
facilitate critical decision making, problem solving,
editing, and the creation of solutions.
C.1.5–Reflect on and articulate the steps and various
relationships of the artistic/creative process.
P.1.2–Demonstrate skillful use of appropriate
vocabularies, tools, instruments, and technologies of the
visual, performing, or applied arts discipline.
P.1.4–Perform, present, exhibit, publish, or demonstrate
the results oF the artistic/creative process for an
audience.
R.1.1–Observe, describe, reflect, analyze, and interpret
works of the visual, performing, or applied arts.
Intended Students
Second-year (Level 2) theatre students
OVERVIEW AND OUTLINE OF THE PERFORMANCE TASK
After reading and analyzing the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, students
will take the role of costume designers and research their assigned time period. Students
will make an organized collage of images and information of the time period. Each student
will fill in Costume Design Worksheets and design five costumes. They will design one
costume for each of the characters they choose from the options that are provided on the
worksheet. Students will present their collages and justify their designs to the class as they
are filmed.
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Students will have one class period to respond to several assessment questions. Then they
will have three class periods to read and analyze the play, and then to analyze the
characters using the Costume Design Worksheet. Students will have one class period to
research their time period and create their time period collage, two class periods to create
their original costume designs, and then have two class periods to plan and present their
costume designs to the class.
This assessment has five parts to it:
o Part 1–Assessment Questions (Day 1)
o Part 2–Costume Design Worksheet (Days 2–4)
o Part 3–Time Period Collage (Day 5)
o Part 4–Costume Design (Days 6–7)
o Part 5–Presentations (Days 8–9)
SUGGESTED TOTAL TIME
This assessment should take nine 50-minute class periods to complete, depending on how
many class periods it requires for each class member to make his or her presentation.
LIST OF MATERIALS REQUIRED
The following materials are required for this assessment:
o Student Booklets
o Pens or pencils
o Script of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
o Erasers
o Highlighters
o Markers
o Poster board
o Glue sticks
o Colored pencils and/or watercolors
o Paper, including high quality paper such as card stock
o Computer and printer
o Camcorder/tripod
o Table
ASSESSMENT SETUP
Students will work independently on computers as they read and research the fashion of
the time period. They will work independently at desks or tables as they complete
character analyses and designs. Then each student will present his or her designs to the
class. Presentations will be filmed using a medium-wide angle shot.
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