E6 
Spring 2003
Ms. Wu

Final Book Project for Shakespeare's  As You Like It

Please select one project to do :

  1. Create a study guide to help younger students read and understand the play . The guide should include:

2. Create a story board that describes-

3. Make a booklet of "My Favorite Quotes and Interpretations" (Minimum 30 quotes)

4. Collect all the remarks about love in the play and provide the act, scene,  line numbers as well as the  character who makes the remark. Comment briefly on the remarks. For example,

Quotation 1:

"Love is merely a madness, and...deserves as well a dark
house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are
not so punished and cured is that the lunacy is so ordinary
that the whippers are in love too." (III, ii, 391-395)

My Interpretation:
My thoughts on the quotation are-..............

5.  Interpret  and illustrate four  most important monologues in the play about love, life and melancholy or any other topic. Copy each monologue and illustrate it with images and words.

6. Make a glossary of literary devices used  in each act  of the play  ( 30 minimum). Name the device, copy the sentence, and explain the meaning.

7. Create a newspaper called "Court Review " or "Rustic Life"( or any other name)  in which there should be headlines, stories , articles, editorial (i.e. Court Life Versus Natural Life) about what's going on in the court and the forest of Arden. Of course, any newspaper needs visual ( images, drawings, etc)

8. Create a talk show ( you are the host) in which you invite the four couples to the studio and interview them . The show needs to tell the audience how each couple fell in love and how they feel about each other, their relationship and their views on love and life in nature/court.

9..Create character collages by choosing a character in the play and then rereading all their speeches. Make a character map or cluster with the character's name in the middle and then a listing of physical and personality traits. Make a visual representation of the character by creating a collage from magazines and your own personal drawing. Choose a speech that your character says in the play that best represents your character's point of view or role in the action. Students can rewrite the speech in modern English or memorize it in Elizabethan English. Present the speech and your character collage to small groups or the whole class. It will be interesting for students to note different interpretations of the same character.

11. Since lovers often express their feelings in lyrics, this play has many examples of songs and verses written in honor of love. Look at these examples. Notice the refrains, use of repetition, and contrived rhymes. Examples are: Act II, v, 1-7; Act II, v, 34-40; Act II, vii, 174-190; Act III, ii, 88-95. Then look at counter-examples, the poetry of the melancholy Jaques and the fool Touchstone: Act II, 5, 45-51 and Act III, ii, 100-112.  The musically inclined can take  the songs and arrange them to music to present to the class. It might be fun, for example, to perform a rap on the page's song in 5.iii.15-40.

Resources:

Reading Guide from Penguin Putnam