Aardvark 3

Julius Caesar: "The Day After" - Newspaper Activity

The Assignment: to create a newspaper for March 16, 44 B.C. ... the day after the assassination of Julius Caesar.

The Goal: for you to combine your knowledge of the plot, character motivations, and themes of Julius Caesar with your creativity in order to design a potential newspaper for March 16th, 44 B.C.

Mandatory Elements:

	two factual news stories (taken from the play) detailing events leading up to the assassination. No opinions!
	two editorials from any two characters from the play. Loaded with opinion! It is here where you can filter in your knowledge of character motivations and themes. (Ex. "It was obvious Brutus was climbing ambition's ladder because he felt that Caesar...")
	pictures (clip art or drawings)
	format should be clean and neat

Things students have included in the past to "add spice" to the newspaper:

	food segments
	weather
	sports
	housing
	personal ads
	horoscopes

Click on the many websites I have place on my Julius Caesar webpage and start compiling facts in order to add actual historical elements into your newspaper.

http://www.geocities.com/eghsbrock/jc.htm

Be creative with your knowledge of the time period here.

Research elements of the play's time period and add those things into the paper.

These separate an average paper from an exemplary one.

Scoring Rubric

Substance:

The play itself

Do your articles display a great knowledge of characters, character relationships, motivations, themes, connections, etc?

------------------------- OUT OF 50 PTS

Substance:

Ancient Roman History

Have you filtered into your newspaper elements from the actual time period of Julius Caesar?

------------------------- OUT OF 20 PTS

Aesthetics:

The look

	Is there plenty of print?
	Is the print clear?
	Are the pictures effective?
	Does it look like an actual newspaper?

------------------------- OUT OF 30 PTS

TOTAL_________ OUT OF 100 PTS

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