The Elizabethan Era Research Project

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You will need: Partner of your choosing Chromebook

DO NOT SIGN ON TO YOUR CHROMEBOOK. LEAVE THE SHIELD DOWN.

Agenda and Objective

AGENDA

Research Project Parameters

Partner Work

OBJECTIVE

Students will gather relevant information from multiple sources in order to make text-to-history connections and demonstrate an understanding of Elizabethan-era England.

Let’s do some research…

Background

William Henry Shakespeare was born in 1564 and lived until 1616; a life that essentially ran parallel to the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. The Elizabethan Era was one of great evolution in the British Empire, and these changes had major social, political and economic ramifications. A familiarity with the life and times of “The Bard” is vital to understanding the playwright’s wide array of works.

Assignment

You and a partner of your choosing will research an area of life in Elizabethan England and present your findings in a dynamic 5-to-7-minute presentation. You should focus on the most interesting facts from your research and come with prepared notes that will educate and entertain your audience.

Requirements – Visual

You must include a visual aid in the form of either a Powerpoint or Prezi Must be ten-twelve slides or “clicks” if using a Prezi Should include interesting pictures, graphs, or a

visual for each slide

You should have no more than 50 total words on the visual aid (bulk of the info should come from you, not the slides)

Requirements – Written

All words on the slides are spelled correctly

Grammar (where applicable) on each slide is correct

You must have a properly formatted works cited page It needs to be given to me on the day of your

presentation

Requirements: Oral Each person may use one notecard with a few key

phrases written on it – no more than 15 words per card

Each person MUST speak for an equitable amount of time

Presentation needs to be between SIX and SEVEN minutes in length (inability to hit the time window will result in the loss of 20 points, or 10 percent of possible points)

Your presentation is not riddled with pauses and verbal noise (“uh,” “um,”)

Partners – Period 3

Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4 Group 5

Group 6 Group 7 Group 8 Group 9 Group 10

Partners – Period 8

Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4 Group 5

Group 6 Group 7 Group 8 Group 9 Group 10

What are we researching?

1. Fashionand hairstyles of Men and Women

2. Food and drink

3. Politics and Queen Elizabeth I

4. Education and Health (Black Plague)

5. Occupations, Social Classes and distribution of wealth

6. Scientific beliefs/discoveries and Religion

7. Marriage/Wedding customs

8. Weapons, Crime and punishment

9. Recreation, extracurricular activities and sports

10. Globe Theater/Theaters in London/Acting Conventions

Picking The Topics

Each group will pick a number from the basket. You will get to choose your topics based on the number you picked from the bucket.

Once you have your topic, you will have today, tomorrow and Thursday in class to research. Presentations will start TUESDAY.

Suitable Sources

NOT WIKIPEDIA.

http://www.folger.edu

http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk

http://www.pbs.org/shakespeare/locations/location153.html

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/liza/hd_liza.htm

Anything with a .org or a .edu is acceptable. All sources MUST be cited on a separate Works Cited Page.