As we are approaching the end of “Romeo and Juliet Around the World” (#globalrj project), we need to start talking about the Final Tasks. Here you have some information about them, taken from the Project Blog.

  1. Final Individual Class Task: Conflict

    From an individual perspective,

    • What causes conflicts between you and your family ? And between peers? How are these conflicts best resolved?
    • How can this help us  understand conflict in Romeo and Juliet?
    • Why do  conflicts in Romeo and Juliet begin? Were some conflicts  inevitable?  Are these kind of conflicts usual today?

    From a global perspective,

    • Are there conflicts in the world?
    • Are people tolerant enough to allow people to live with differences?

The eternal conflict: rock, paper, scissors!

2. Final Collaborative Task:

Every class participating in the project will:

  1. Choose a character and present a complete profile, it could be any  format.  Storyboard is a great tool and you can include as many features as you want! Once every class makes the contribution  character descriptions will be collated in a poster, showing collaborative outcome.
  2. One student will play the role of the assigned character and record her/him dressed up as the character and with some props showing something from the culture of that class  (Argentinian Juliet could be drinking some mate) this character will introduce  his or her point of view of the story.

Point of View in Literature: Narration & Character

As you know, we have already finished our FINAL INDIVIDUAL CLASS TASK, by discussing these topics deeply the past few weeks. We even had a connection wit another class about this, you can read about it here. We’ll share some of the written productions in both our class blog and the project blog soon.

Now, we need to continue working on the FINAL COLLABORATIVE TASK, and for that you must:

  1. Use your posters with the characters’ profiles as drafts for the digital version, using Storyboard. We’ll finish this part next week, in the Computing Lab.
  2. Think about your character’s point of view to make a Monologue in which your character explains the plot in his/her own vision, and he/she talks about how he/she felt, and why he/she acted in one way or other. You’ll work in groups to make a draft, redraft and correct it for the final version.
  3. Make a plan for the Video that your character will record:

-What props will you need? Who is in charge of bringing them to school?

-What kind of clothes will the character wear? Who is in charge of bringing them to school?

-Imagine the place: what kind of scene will you set up? Will it be in the characters’ house? Outside? What do you need for this and who will bring the elements?

4. Next week, we’ll record the videos and share them with the rest of the classes!

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Planning our character’s point of view monologue. Credits: Study.com