FITZSPRING 2012 COMIC STRIP RUBRIC BASIC REQUIREMENTS For

FITZ—SPRING 2012

COMIC STRIP RUBRIC BASIC REQUIREMENTS: For two-person groups— 10 frames For three-person groups— 15 frames Frames must accurately retell the story. No Stick Figures No computer-generated photos (i. e cut and paste) Both partners will receive a partner evaluation sheet that will ask how much work each partner did on the project. DUE DATE: MARCH 21, 2012—WEDNESDAY

Per class discussion--deductions*Has all basic requirements present • Appears in chronological order—(-10 points per frame) • Presents story in a unique and creative fashion—students prepare a product that demonstrates a thorough understanding of the characters and storyline, while also adding a creative flair to the comic strip—(no color -10) • Maximum of 2 grammatical and spelling errors—(-2 points each) • Correct citation—MLA format—(Act, sc. , lines)—(-2 points each) • For 10 th grade— 5 relevant quotes, properly cited (on front or back of frame) • For 9 th grade— 10 relevant quotes (2 -person groups), 15 relevant quotes (3 person groups) • Comic strip is neat and simple to follow. Students make additional effort to make comic strip accessible to reader. –(*teacher’s discretion) • Caption is easy to read and EXTREMELY neat. (-2 to -10 points)

QUOTE #1 –Who said it? To whom? In what context? “Let me have men about me that are fat, sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o’nights. ” QUOTE #2 – “What can be avoided whose end is purposed by the mighty gods? ” QUOTE #3—”Cowards die many times before their death; the valiant never taste of death but once. ” QUOTE #4—”Here I will stand till Caesar pass along, and as a suitor will I give him this. ”

. QUOTE #5—”I must go in. Ay me, how weak a thing the heart of a woman is!” QUOTE #6—”Oh Caesar, read mine first, for mine’s a suit that touches Caesar nearer. Read it great Caesar. ” QUOTE #7—”Speak, hands, for me!” QUOTE #8—”O Antony, beg not your death of us. Though now we must appear bloody and cruel, as by our hands and this our present act you see we do, yet see you but our hands and this the bleeding business they have done. ”

QUOTE #9—”How ill this taper burns! Ha! Who comes here? I think it is the weakness of mine eyes that shapes this monstrous apparition. It comes upon me. Art thou any thing? Art thou some god, some angel or some devil? ” . QUOTE #10—”Villains! You did not so when your vile daggers hacked one another in the sides of Caesar: you showed your teeth like apes, and fawned like hounds, and bowed like bondmen, kissing Caesar’s feet” QUOTE #11 -”Come Antony, away! Defiance traitors, hurl we in your teeth. If you dare fight today, come to the field; If not, when you have stomachs. ” QUOTE #12—”Et tu Brute? ”

DEAD OR ALIVE? Identify if the following characters are dead or alive. If they are dead, explain the cause of death and who was involved (murder or suicide). If they are alive, then simply write “ALIVE”. 13. BRUTUS 14. CAESAR 15. PORTIA 16. CALPHURNIA 17. CASSIUS 18. PINDARUS 19. TITINIUS 20. MARK ANTONY

ROMEO AND JULIET QUOTE #1 “What drawn and talk of peace? I hate the word as I hate hell, all Montagues and thee. Have at thee coward!” QUOTE #2 “By giving liberty unto thine eyes. Examine other beauties. ” QUOTE #3 “Now I’ll tell you without asking. My master is the great rich Capulet; and if you be not of the house of Montagues, I pray come and crush a cup of wine. ” QUOTE #4 “ A man, young lady! Lady, such a man as all the world—why he’s a man of wax. ”

. QUOTE #5—”You are a lover. Borrow Cupid’s wings and soar with his light feathers; and so bound I cannot bound a pitch above dull woe. Under love’s heavy burden I do sink. ” QUOTE #6—”He shall be endured. ” QUOTE #7—”Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much, which mannerly devotion shows in this; for saints have hands that pilgrims’ hands do touch and palm to palm is holy palmers kiss. ” QUOTE #8—”My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me that I must love a loathed enemy. ”

. QUOTE #9—”She speaks. O, speak again, bright angel, for thou art as glorious to this night, being o’er my head as is a winged messenger of heaven unto the white upturned wondring eyes of mortals that fall back to gaze on him when he bestrides the lazy puffing clouds and sails upon the bosom of the air. ” QUOTE #10—”Thou art uproused with some distemperature or if not so, then here I hit it right—Our Romeo hath not been in bed tonight. ” QUOTE #11—”I saw no man use you at his pleasure. If I had, my weapon should quickly have been out, I warrant you. I dare draw as soon as another man, if I see occasion in a good quarrel, and the law on my side. ” QUOTE #12—”No, no. But all this I did know before. What says he of our marriage? What of that? ”

. QUOTE #13—”I pray thee, good Mercutio, let’s retire. The day is hot, the Capulets abroad, and, if we meet, we shall not ‘scape a brawl, for now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring. ” QUOTE #14—”Romeo, the love I bear thee can afford no better term than this: thou art a villain. ” QUOTE #15—”I am hurt. A plague a both your houses!” QUOTE #16—! ”Tybalt, my cousin! O my brother’s child! O Prince! O cousin! O husband! O, the blood is spilled of my dear kinsman! Prince, as thou art true, for blood of ours shed blood of Montague. O cousin, cousin!” QUOTE #17—”Will you speak well of him that killed your cousin? ” QUOTE #18—”O find him! Give this ring to my true knight and bid him come to take his last farewell. ”

. QUOTE #19—”Well, get you gone. A Thursday be it then. Go you to Juliet ere you go to bed; prepare her wife, against this wedding day. Farewell, my lord. Light to my chamber, ho! Afore me, it is so very late that we may call it early by and by. Good night. ” QUOTE #20—”Hang thee young baggage! Disobedient wretch! I tell thee what—get thee to church a Thursday or never after look me in the face. Speak not, reply not, do not answer me!” QUOTE #21—”Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again. I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins. ” QUOTE #22—”Is it even so? Then I defy you, stars! Thou knowest my lodging. Get me ink and paper and hire post horses. I will hence tonight. ”

. QUOTE #23—”Come hither, man. I see thou art poor. Hold, there is forty ducats. Let me have a dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear as will disperse itself through all the veins that the life-weary taker may fall dead. ” QUOTE #24—”O, I am slain! If thou be merciful, open thy tomb, lay me with Juliet. ” QUOTE #25—”A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for sorrow will not show his head. Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things: some shall be pardoned, and some punished; for never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo. ”

JULIUS CAESAR ESSAY TOPICS Prompt 1: NARRATIVE: One of the central themes in Julius Caesar is betrayal. In a 2 -3 page paper, (approximately 500 words), identify and discuss a time in your life where betrayal was present and had damaging circumstances. Discuss what happened, how and why and what the long-term consequences were. Prompt 2: ANALYSIS: Compare and contrast the portrayal of Julius Caesar in Uli Edel’s Julius Caesar—His Time Has Come with William Shakespeare’s play, Julius Caesar. Be sure to address differences between the two but also be sure to address a similarity or two to validate the content in each being somewhat indisputable and true. Length: 2 -3 pages Prompt 3: ANALYSIS: Identify and discuss a central theme in William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. Students must have at least two pieces of textual evidence, properly cited, to accompany their ideas. Fitz loves Justice!!!!!! A LOT

ROMEO AND JULIET ESSAY TOPICS Choose one of the following in which to write a 2 -3 page essay. NO PERSONAL PRONOUNS ALLOWED! TOPIC #1: In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, there is no TRUE protagonist in the play. In a 2 -3 page essay (500 words), identify a discuss who the protagonist of the play is and why. Students must give at least two pieces of textual evidence to support his/her ideas. TOPIC #2: In William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, multiple characters make impulsive and rash decisions that lead to tragic consequences. In a 2 -3 page paper, identify and analyze the actions (and consequences) of one character who is most irrational, and who ultimately is responsible for the sequence of events that leads to the death of Romeo and Juliet,