Hamlet+Creative+Project

= This page is invalid!! = = AP English Literature = // Hamlet // Choose one of the following categories and be creative! Points: 100 Due: The week before Winter Break

** //1. // **** //Performance Option (Group Option) // **With a small group, act out a scene from the play. Lines can be directly out of the play or modernized/adapted to fit. Think about costuming, props, action. The performance can be as traditional or experimental as you wish, as serious or as light as desired. You may do a whole scene, a condensed act, or a blended attempt at more. Every member of the group must have a specific role. Each student should submit a paragraph explaining their role—whether it is a speaking character, camera man, or production worker—and how they helped the group.

** //2. Write a story: // **Turn Shakespeare’s verse drama into a prose short story. You may wish to modernize the characters, setting, action, and most certainly the dialogue. Don’t try to re-write the entire play; rather, select a key scene or moment and transform it into a narrative. Students are most successful when they experiment with point of view. For example, you could recreate a scene from the point of view of the Ophelia or from Gertrude. Should be four pages minimum typed.

** //3. Place characters in a contemporized world: // **Write a 1000-word screenplay, incorporating the plot and characters of //Hamle//t into any contemporary TV series or movie. It must contain most of the original characters (you may add some) and have stage notes. Suggested titles: //Law and Order, Seinfeld, CSI, VHI: Behind the Music, Dark Knight, Judge Judy,// MTV //Cribs.// Choose any scene (or part of a scene) and rewrite it in modern language. Make the dialogue consistent with the characters. You may include lines of the original play in the modern world.

** //4. // **** // Create a work of art:* For artists only. // ** Create an original drawing, illustrating a character, scene, speech, etc. Make a concrete object/three dimensional sculpture using creative material.

5. ** // Undefined Individual Option // ** <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">A song, a rap, a monologue, something else unexpected. A graphic novel. Video game. Design a Playbill for your own casting of // Hamlet. //Children’s Book. Etc. You must discuss your ideas with me first.