Why Study Shakespeare? A Closer Look at Shakespeare, His Language, The Times He Lived In and Romeo and Juliet

Units of Study Why Study Shakespeare? Elizabethan Times Shakespeare's Plays Shakespeare's Language Themes of Romeo & Juliet

Welcome to Mrs. Blocher's Ninth Grade English Web Quest. You will be spending the next few weeks learning about Shakespeare. You will also find out why ninth grade English students, such as yourself, need to be familiar with him. You start below by finding out what is expected of you for the next few weeks. Keep in mind that time is precious. As Shakespeare once wrote: "I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. "   The Task Instructions Resources Assessment Evaluation

The Task: Your task for the next few weeks is to go through each unit of study and complete the assignments that are listed in each unit. Remember that you have four units to accomplish in the time that you have. You will be in the computer lab three days a week. You will have the whole class period to work, but that only gives you twelve days to accomplish all your tasks. (That means you need to finish one unit a week.) Some personal time at home, at lunch, or after school may be needed to finish all your tasks by the due date. BACK

Instructions: You may start at any unit. You do not have to go in the order in which they are listed. Once you start a unit, please finish it before moving on to the next unit. All assignments must be turned in to Mrs. Blocher as you finish them. Don't save them up and turn them in at the end of the unit. You should turn in a unit's worth of assignments in one week. You will be responsible for filling out an activity record each day. This record will allow me to see what you have accomplished in your time at the computer lab. This will be turned in daily, and I will return it to you everyday we are in the lab. Please go the ACTIVITY RECORD right now and print it out for your first week. You will need to come back to this page and print out a new ACTIVITY RECORD for each week. BACK

Resources: Most of your resources that you will need will come from Internet sites. These will be links in the various units. All you will need to do is 'click' on them and get the information you will need to complete the assignment. Some of your other resources may come from the library, your text book, your teachers, your peers, or any other places you think will be appropriate. Remember, that any information you get from any of your sources needs to be translated into your own words when answering questions, writing paragraphs, or any other work product that you produce. Please go to the following site about PLAGIARISM and read through what it has to say. Once you have read over the material on plagiarism, then take the quiz at the link below labeled 'Quiz." PLAGIARISM   QUIZ: http://www.quizlab.com/ BACK

Assessment: Your grades will be based upon your completion of the assignments in each of the units. You will also be graded on your completion of the weekly activity records. The last assessment you will have is a unit test on Romeo and Juliet. This test will be based on the play and what you have learned while doing this webquest. BACK

Evaluation: Once you have finished all of the units and the assignments that go with those units, please come back to this page, print out the EVALUATION SHEET for this webquest. Once you have it printed, fill it out and turn it in to Mrs. Blocher. BACK

Shakespeare's Web Quest | Elizabethan Times | Shakespeare's Plays | Shakespeare's Language | Themes of Romeo & Juliet

Laura Blocher
Date Last Modified: 4/20/2003