Role



|Role |Audience |Format |Topic |Expectations |Points | |

|1. |Traveling minstrel |Anyone who will listen |Ballad |Sad story of Caesar |4 stanzas |40 |

|2. |Psychologist |Talk show audience |Script for a television talk show |Brutus and Caesar: friends or foes? |2 typed pages |40 |

|3. |Caesar |Octavius |Top ten list |What you need to know about being a leader. |Top ten with explanations of items on the |20 |

| | | | | |list. | |

|4. |Roman teenager |Friend |Text message script |Main plot of play |Enough to reasonably complete assignment |20 |

|5. |Rap Artist |Citizens of Rome |Rap lyrics |Any important scene from play. |Enough to reasonably complete assignment |40 |

|6. |Brutus and Portia |Each other |Letters |Events of the play. |Series of 4 letters total; 2 from each. |40 |

| |OR | | | |Each letter – 1 typed page minimum. | |

| |Caesar and Calphurnia | | | | | |

|7. |Television news anchor or |City of Rome |Newscast script |: |Each script – 1 typed page minimum |40 |

| |newspaper reporter | |or news story |Caesar’s assassination | | |

| | | | |Battle of Philippi | | |

|8. |Historian |Textbook company |Time line, including pictures |Important events of the play |Enough to reasonably complete assignment |40 |

|9. |Poet |General public |poems |Any of the characters |Two poems—each |40 |

| | | | | |15 – 20 lines | |

|10. |Actor |Class |Performance |Monologue or soliloquy |Perform for class |40 |

|11. |Poet |General public |Acrostic poems |Write one for any three characters from the play. |3 poems using characters’ first and last |40 |

| | | | | |names | |

|12. |Editor |Publisher |Play |Add a new character to the play. Re-write a scene |Enough to reasonably complete assignment |40 |

| | | | |which includes the new character. | | |

|13. |Graphic designer/music |General public |CD cover depicting one of the themes |Themes of the play. |CD cover + list of six songs/explanations |40 |

| |producer | |of play. Also a list of songs that | | | |

| | | |represent the themes of play with | | | |

| | | |brief explanation as to why you chose| | | |

| | | |each song. | | | |

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|14. |Newspaper writer |General public |Obituary |Write obituaries for Caesar, Brutus, Cassius and Portia|Each obituary – 1 typed page |40 |

|15. |Graphic Designer |People Magazine of Rome |Wordles to be used in magazine |One of two main characters and Shakespeare |3 printed and mounted on colored paper for|20 |

| | | | | |display. | |

|16. |Artist |Art book editor |Drawings |Characters or scenes |Negotiable |40 |

“Julius Caesar” Final Project Choices

(Need 40 points total)

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