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Y8 Shakespeare Character Homework Project |
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21st Century manuscripts
You will be creating a modernised version of a character manuscript. You will be looking at key images and symbols within character descriptions and will represent them in your own unique way.
TASK ONE Pick one of the descriptions from the choice of characters below. Click here to go to the characters... Write an explanation of why you choose this description- which words or ideas appealed most to you? Do you like or dislike the character?
TASK TWO Use an internet search engine to research your character and see if you can find any images of them to help you picture them in your mind. Write an explanation about who they are. Are they the hero or the villain of the play? What happens to them in the play? Which other characters are they connected to in the play?
TASK THREE You will be creating a piece of artwork to accompany your chosen passage. It needs to capture some of the ideas you picked out from the first two tasks. You may want to just create the character or you may want to give them the kind of setting or background that Shakespeare might have used. These pieces must be your own work (so avoid cutting out a picture of an actor who played the character) and should be as creative as possible… Perhaps try painting a picture, drawing a cartoon, sewing some material onto your artwork, making something in 3D, using cut out pictures from a magazine, or even going mad with paper mache!!!
TASK FOUR Think carefully about your character before you start this piece of creative writing. You will need to write as if you are the character you have picked. It is up to you to decide whether to research your character and answer factually or use your imagination. You will need to include some of the following in your writing:
TASK FIVE You will need to prepare to hand in all written and artistic work. Spend some time checking your written work and putting the finishing touches to your artwork. You must make sure that hand in your project by the deadline your teacher has set you.
The characters you can choose from are...
CHARCTER ONE Bottom From A Midsummer Night’s Dream
I must to the
barber's, monsieur; for
CHARACTER TWO Juliet From Romeo and Juliet It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
Two of the
fairest stars in all the heaven, O, speak again, bright angel!
CHARACTER THREE Caliban From The Tempest
here? a man or a fish? dead or alive? A fish:
CHARACTER FOUR The witches From Macbeth
What are these
CHARACTER FIVE Richard From Richard III
Cheated of
feature by dissembling nature, That dogs bark at me as I halt by them; Have no delight to pass away the time,
Unless to
spy my shadow in the sun CHARACTER SIX Portia From The Merchant of Venice
What demi-god
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