Romeo & Juliet Character Chart

Grading Rubric

DUE DATE:  December 15 & 16

Dates
Dec 9-10  Learn easy tables in class, start Character Chart (DT and extra lab time, if needed)
Dec 13-16  Work on table
Jan 3-7  Finish Character Chart in DT class: Turn-in at end of period (with notes)

OVERVIEW

Your assignment is to sort out all of the members of the play in terms of last names (Montague, Capulet, and others), and place in a Word chart (see below for example).

PARTS OF THE PROJECT

  1. Follow along with your Digitools teacher to get table started.

  2. Fill in character and family name, along with some other things about each character.

  3. Turn in your printed project when instructed to print.

FINISHING

  1. Adjust column width (1.5", 1.5", 3.6")

  2. Sort table by family name, and then character name

  3. Adjust table properties: Repeat column header, and DO NOT break across rows (if the chart goes to page 2).

  4. Put on Name and page in footer on page two

  5. DO NOT BOLD character names

GRADING

Papers will be graded by your English, World Studies, and Digitools teachers.

Assignment Value
DT:  25 Project (test) points
SS: To be determined
Eng: To be determined.

Example

Your Name Here
December 1, 2003
3E1
Romeo & Juliet Character Chart

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Romeo and Juliet:  The Families

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Character

Family

Character Traits
Lord Montague Montague Father of Romeo: Stern
"Quote from play goes here."  p. 603

Abram

  

 

Apothecary

 Other

 Druggist: Trait here
"Quote here..."

Balthasar

  

 

Benvolio

  

 

Count Paris

  

 

Instructions for MAKING CHART

1.      Open a new word document

2.      Set page margins to 1” top, bottom, left & right

3.      Make sure font is Times New Roman, 12 point

4.      Format heading information for document (name, date, period & assignment)

5.      Triple space (return three times)

6.      Create title “Romeo and Juliet:  The Families” centered & bold

7.      Triple space (return three times)

8.      Go to “Table-Insert-Table” and create a new table with 3 columns, 26 rows, 2” columns.

9.      Select your table, right click on it, select table properties and choose center align.

10.  Label each of the three columns as follows:  1) Character, 2) Family, and 3) Character Traits and Other Information.  Use mixed case, bold text and center in column.

11.  The rest of the columns in your table will be left justified.  Highlight the rows with your cursor and choose left justify from your tool bar.

12.  Enter each character name, corresponding family, and traits/details.

13.  After all characters are entered select those cells and sort in ascending order.

14.  Format the top three cells so they have a double line around each cell.  Select those three cells, go to Format-Paragraph, choose the appropriate line and select double line.