Julius Caesar Culminating Project Due: Monday 12/14
Video explaining project: video
Imagine that Mark Antony and Brutus are campaigning today for President. In your group pick one candidate to support, the person who you believe would govern our country best. For your final culminating project you will create a commercial in which you and your group members will support either Brutus or Mark Antony.
Objective: To create a political ad that supports your candidate for emperor/president (Mark Antony or Brutus) and appeals to your audience’s emotions, logic, and credibility.
Criteria:
• Group must be between 3 and 4 people. No more, no less.
• You must acknowledge the counter argument, why would someone support the other candidate and why is that perspective incorrect?
• You must have a minimum of two quotes from The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. Use them in whatever way you think will help best convince the audience to vote for your candidate.
• Commercial must be a minimum of 3 minutes. Yes, we know this is longer than a typical commercial, but we want to see you demonstrate your knowledge of the material.
• All group members must have a minimum of one line in the video.
Additional Components:
• Typed script to be turned in.
• Each group member is to individually type an abstract.
Due Dates:
• 12/4 Script Due
• 12/14 All Presentations must be emailed to me by midnight on this date
• 12/14 Hand in individual paragraph in class on Monday.
Grading: Your project will be worth a total of 100 summative points. These points will be divided into the following categories:
Presentation: 50 points – Can we hear the speakers in the video? Are students taking it seriously? Are you reading from a script or are the lines memorized? Are all students in the film? Did you follow all of the above criteria?
Script: 25 points – Does the script have grammatical errors? Does it appeal to ethos, pathos, and logos? Are the 2 quotes used?
Abstract: 25 points – Do you adequately respond to questions? Is your response typed? Do you have 350 words?
***If you are struggling with editing/getting time to film, I am in the library Tuesday-Thursday after school***
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ABSTRACT DUE DECEMBER 14, 2015
Responses must be typed (12 Times New Roman, double-spaced, MLA header, & word count at the top).
Use the following as a checklist for your 350-word abstract:
Motivation:
Why do we care about the project and how we created the video? This section should include the importance of your work, the difficulty of the area, and the impact it had on you/your understanding.
Assignment statement:
What are you trying to prove? Why is your presentation relevant? What do you want the audience/reader to understand about your particular presentation?
Approach:
How did you go about planning, creating, and executing your project? What did you use to make the product? What was the extent of your work (did you meet more than once)?
Role as a Member:
How did you contribute to the group assignment? Did you assume a leadership role or not? How would you like to improve your role in groups in the future?
Results/Conclusion:
What has become clear to you as a result of your project? Has your understanding of rhetoric and advertisements changed? Explain why or why not. What can you do to improve your understanding of rhetoric?