Date: Name:
Greek and Roman Gods (or at least mythological characters) Project
You will create a trading card (like a baseball card) of the Greek and Roman god/goddess or mythological character that you are assigned. You use a laptop to locate and record information about this assignment. If you use the laptop for purposes other than those described here, the laptop will be taken away and you will do this project using information from a book.
You will work with a partner on this project.
Description: o Printed material will be glued to construction paper.
Front Side o Greek AND Roman names of god, goddess or mythological character. o Image(s) of your assigned god, goddess or mythological character. o Decorated border
Back Side o Details about birth, parents, etc. o If god or goddess, what they are god of, what their powers are, etc. o If mythological character, then character traits. o Information about what happened in stories involving this god, goddess or mythological character in bullet form (NOT paragraph form) IN YOUR OWN WORDS
Directions (Check the boxes to the left as you complete the steps to the project.)
Go to “bartelskinsey.wikispaces.com”. Click on “Greek and Roman Gods (& Mythological Characters)”. Read the Scoring Guide for the project on the back of this paper so you know how you will be graded on this. Type information for the Back Side of your trading card in a Work or Comic Life document. Find and save images of the god, goddess or mythological character you have been assigned on the web. Use at least one of the images to make the Front Side of your trading card. Save this work in a file (Word or Comic Life) on the DESKTOP of your computer. The file name should be “YOUR NAME.greek”. Notify the teacher that you have done this. When the teacher informs you that he has downloaded your work, you can work on Study Island or Cool Math. The teacher will print out your material by Friday. On Friday, glue your material to construction paper. On Friday, you will present your trading card to the class. Scoring Guide
Criteria Advanced (4) Proficient (3) Basic (2) Below Basic (1) Content -Impressive -Lots of -Minimum -Not much amount of information amount of information information about topic information -Little relevant -All information -Information -Most information relevant relevant for topic information -Unclear what is -Clear what is -Clear what is relevant for topic main point and main point and main point and -Mostly clear what is detail what is detail what is detail what is main point and detail Visuals -All required -All required -Most required -Some required elements elements elements elements -Make trading -Make trading -Make trading -Does not make card very card interesting card somewhat trading card interesting to to look at interesting to interesting to look at look at look at Own Words -All explanations -All explanations -Most -A few in student’s own in student’s own explanations in explanations in words words student’s own student’s own -All quotes words words marked with quotation marks Interesting -Information very -Information -Information -Information not interesting for all interesting somewhat very interesting audiences interesting Presentatio -Always facing -Mostly facing -Sometimes -Rarely facing n audience audience facing audience audience -Not reading -Mostly not -Sometimes -Mostly reading -Loud, normal reading reading -Difficult to hear pace, clear -Mostly easy to -Somewhat easy hear to hear