Elizabethan Life Research Project Queen Elizabeth: 1558-1603; Shakespeare: 1564-1616
Directions: With your partner(s), create a 5-10 minute presentation of approximately 8-10 slides covering the topic you have chosen.
Each slide must have: ● A visual example of something you have researched (picture, drawing, chart, etc.) ● As well as brief textual support for the slide ● The text may not be longer than a sentence or two on any slide ● The text must be paraphrased, IN YOUR OWN WORDS! NO CUT AND PASTE! ● You must use two direct quotes in the PowerPoint presentation; these may not be more than a sentence or two. ● You must have at least one non-internet source (book, encyclopedia, magazine or Journal article) ● Your final slide must be a “Works Cited” page on which you provide your sources. You must have at least 3 sources (MLA formatting).
Your presentation before the class: ● Your actual oral presentation will be approximately 5-10 minutes in length in which you will elaborate on the information displayed in your slides. ● You may not read from the slides. ● Oral presentation should be mostly MEMORIZED, but may be aided by the use of note cards (BUT no straight reading).
Notes on TEAMWORK: ● Each member of the team must contribute fairly to the project. ● If one person contributes more to the slide-making due to superior expertise, the other member should contribute more to the oral performance.
Topics:
● Architecture (Tudor style homes, “priest holes,” castles and palaces) ● Elizabethan food & diet (Poor, Commoners/Working Class, Higher Classes/Nobility) ● Elizabethan entertainment (Theatre, Public Executions, Witch Burnings, Bear Baiting, etc.) ● Elizabethan crime & punishment (Tower of London, Courts, Torture, etc.) ● Disease & Medicine (Barber-Surgeons, plague, bleeding, four humours, apothecaries etc.) ● Elizabethan Fashion & Clothing (Working classes & Nobility/Higher classes) ● The Life of Queen Elizabeth I (Historical Highlights, Female Monarch, England vs. Spain, Tudor Dynasty, etc) ● Espionage (Spying) during Queen Elizabeth I’s reign ● Social Class system of Elizabethan England ● Elizabethan Sports ● Great Chain of Being (belief in hierarchy from dirt to God) ● Elizabethan Religious Life (Catholic, Protestant, Church of England) ● Elizabethan Superstitions ● Elizabethan Marriage Customs Elizabethan Era Research Presentation Checklist
Partners:______Topic:______
RESEARCH AND SLIDES (includes the following):
❏ A visual example of something you have researched (picture, drawing, chart, etc.) as well as brief textual support for the slide. ❏ The text is no longer than a sentence or two on any slide. ❏ The text is paraphrased, IN YOUR OWN WORDS! NO CUT AND PASTE! (Unless it is a direct quotes!) ❏ You used two direct quotes in the PowerPoint presentation; these are not more than a sentence or two. ❏ Your final slide is a “Works Cited” page (bibliography) on which you provide your sources in MLA format. ❏ You have at least 3 sources (MLA formatting). ❏ You have at least one non-internet source (book, encyclopedia, magazine or Journal article)
ORAL PRESENTATION ❏ Your actual oral presentation is from 5-10 minutes in length in which you elaborate on the information displayed in your slides. ❏ You did not read from the slides. ❏ Oral presentation is mostly MEMORIZED, but aided by the use of note cards. ❏ You give an introduction to your topic (what is it, why did you choose it, how does it relate to the Elizabethan Era?) ❏ Pace is not too fast or too slow ❏ Volume is loud enough for everyone to hear ❏ You are both standing to face the audience, not leaning or sitting, not reading off the board, making eye contact with the audience. ❏ You are engaged in the presentation with all members of the group actively participating in the presentation of your information.