Make Your Own Niemeyer Chart for the Play: Romeo and Juliet

The following chart symbolically captures American life in the first decade of the twenty-first century.
This chart contains the three essential elements of analyzing and interpreting:
1. It helps the reader gain a better understanding of something
2. It takes a subject apart and closely examines how it trends
3. It considers the societal context involved
If you were to follow Niemeyers lead and create a similar chart on Romeo and Juliet, what would you
put in the boxes for the different categories?

Here is a sample of the chart you will be given:

Act I Act II Act III Act IV Act V

Fear
Humor
Dumb
Decision
Oops!
Most
Important
Quote or
Phrase

Part 1: Rubric:
Work as a group to create a Romeo and Juliet Group Poster (50 points):
Niemeyer Chart. 1. Finished product that is neat and colorful
Make sure the finished product is neat and
__________/10
colorful
Make sure the finished product shows effort 2. Effort and creativity is shown on the
and creativity finished product ____________/ 10
Make sure the finished product aligns with
3. Whole Group Participation _____/5
the text
4. Accuracy of the content/ connection
Make sure the pictures clearly depict the
text and show a connection being made between picture/quote and the text is
clear ____________/25
Part 2:
Justify one of the squares of your groups Justification Paragraph (50 points):
finished product in 200 words using the 3 Color Topic sentence _______/10
Response Writing Strategy. Major Detail _______/10
Explanation _____15
Proper Word Usage ______/5
Complete sentences _______/5
Capitalization/Punctuation ________/5