1. In your group, assign a different research topic from the following list to each member; have each member select a topic from a different section). Visit the Folger Shakespeare Library website (www.folger.edu) to conduct research on your assigned topic by exploring the “Discover Shakespeare” link. On the top half of the page, summarize the key details from your research. On the bottom half of the page, write a one-paragraph response that - based on your research topic - answers the assigned prompt. Include all website addresses used.

   1. Shakespeare’s Life: Stratford Beginnings, Success in London, Final Years, An Expansive Age, Shakespeare’s Story, Questioning Shakespeare’s Authorship

      1. Prompt: How has your understanding of Shakespeare changed since before your research?

   2. Shakespeare’s Work: The Plays, The Poems, Publication, First Folio

      1. Prompt: What is your overall impression of Shakespeare as a creator?

   3. Shakespeare’s Theater: London Playhouses, Inside the Theaters, Staging and Performance, Business Arrangements

      1. Prompt: How might the effect of seeing a Shakespearean play be different if it were seen in a movie theater, rather than in one of the theater’s described in your research?

Goal is to demonstrate an ability to summarize and identify key information on a research topic.

Exemplary Work will accurately quote key details from the text by embedding direct quotations into the summary