EXTRA CREDIT – TEST GRADE
Who is the most responsible for the end of the Roman Republic?
Part 1: RESEARCH – you need 4 index cards.
Step 1: Make your index card with your Most Wanted: character/person, including your 3 reasons for blaming this character/person.
Step 2: Complete your 3 index Research Cards – 1 for each of the 3 sources you are going to use to gather your evidence/support for these reasons. For this project you will use
1. The text of the play
2. Excerpts from Plutarch’s Lives
3. An internet source or another source of your choice
Step 3: Begin with the play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. Write next to “Source” the information you will need for your Works Cited sheet (the title, publishing information, pages of the play). Scan the scenes in the play for sections that support your claim as being a reason.
When you find one or more, write them as quotes followed by the line(s) written as 1.2.10-16, for example, for the Act.Scene.Line(s).
Step 4: Then go to Plutarch’s Lives. Using your second index Research Card, repeat the procedure in Step 3.
Step 5: Then find another source on your own. Using your third index Research Card, repeat the procedure in Step 3.
· You will need a total of 4 index cards. The first one will look like the one above. You must come up with your 3 reasons for thinking this person is the most responsible. One of the 3 reasons will be supported from the play; one of the 3 reasons will be supported from Plutarch’s Lives; and one of the 3 reasons will be supported from an internet or other source that you find on your own.
· The second, third, and fourth cards will look like the one below. This is where the research information goes for your 1st reason. All the support quotes and information you find from this source for THAT reason will go on this card.
Example of card if Caesar is the most responsible and the source
is the play in our class textbook.
Example of card if Caesar is the most responsible and the source
is one of the volumes of Plutarch’s Lives owned by Mrs. Austin
Because this is a special edition of an ancient work, the citation is complicated. First, write the title of the original work (Plutarch: The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, The Dryden Translation); the publisher and city (Chicago: William Benton; Encyclopedia Brittanica, Inc.); year (1952); the volume, name, and editor of this book (Vol. 14 of Great Books of the Western World. Ed. Robert Maynard Hutchins. 54 vols.).
Example of card if Caesar is the most responsible and the source
is found on the internet.
PART 2: PERSUASION Essay form
You will need your 4 index cards out while you are writing the essay. Transfer all of your information from your index cards to the appropriate boxes of the Persuasion Essay form - see the Persuasion Map template or go to interactive website and fill it out then print from there
http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/persuasion_map/
PART 3: MOST WANTED POSTER – no smaller than 22” x 28”
Create your Most Wanted poster. Make sure you include at least:
· Name of the character/person
· Crime: Causing the End of the Roman Republic
· The 3 reasons you claim as the basis for him/her being the Most Wanted
· Image of the Most Wanted person/character
· Graphics that will appeal to the reader – make the reader want to help nab this character/person
· Your name and period on the front or back
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PART 4: Works Cited List
Attach to the Persuasive Essay form, your Works Cited List (you will get this from your index cards)
Turn in to Mrs. Austin by the deadline:
· RUBRIC with your name on it (see link on website or see Mrs. Austin).
· 4 completed index cards
· Persuasive Essay form with Works Cited attached
· Most Wanted Poster
Persuasive Essay Planning Sheet
Goal or Thesis
A goal or thesis is a statement that describes one side of an arguable viewpoint.
• What is the thesis or point you are trying to argue?
Main Reasons
You will need some good reasons to support your goal or thesis.
Briefly state three main reasons that would convince someone that your thesis is valid.
• Reason 1
• Reason 2
• Reason 3
Facts or Examples
What are some facts or examples you could state to support this reason and validate this argument?
• Fact or Example 1
• Fact or Example 2
• Fact or Example 3
Conclusion
A piece of persuasive writing usually ends by summarizing the most important details of the argument and stating once again what the reader is to believe or do.
http://www.readwritethink.org/lesson_images/lesson875/PersuasionMapPlanning.pdf.