As a way of shaking things up and allowing for my visual learners to ‘show’ what they know instead of ‘writing’ what they know, I have students to create a poster instead of writing an essay.
Here are some of the requirements for our Romeo and Juliet study
Their graphic essay (poster) needed to contain
- 2 quotes from Romeo and Juliet – rewrite and then paraphrase the two quotes
- 10 examples of literary devices – label the device and give me examples from the play
- 3 symbols – these symbols should be representative of the themes from the play (love, hate, revenge, family, etc.)
- Character sketch – identify 2 characters and what they say/do, what others feel about them, how they look and feel and how you feel about them
- Storyline – identify 10 events from the story
