The Merchant of Venice Lesson

Group Lesson Plan

Grade(s)

Subject(s)

English

Length of
Lesson

One hour with presentation

Lesson
This lesson will help students to expand their social information and make
Overview/Ratio connection between real life and what they gain from the story and focusing on
moral aims that we have in this wonderful story. This assignment will also involve
nale
students to work together and be able to use their video production/movie maker
skills to assemble a presentation to share with the class.

Curriculum
Framework/Sta
ndard

Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the
course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined
by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.
(English Language Standards page. 40)

Learning
Objectives

With the completion of the assigned reading, students will be able to

create, edit, research, work together and present a portion of the story.
Work together to promote leadership, negotiation and conflict resolution
skills.
Be able to understand the movie maker software

Technology
Uses

Materials

Procedure

Computer
1. Movie Maker for video
making and video editing
2. Internet (Research)

Computers
Merchant of Venice play

1. Assign group of 3-4 students.

2. Students will use Movie Maker software to communicate a central theme of
the novel. They will use graphics, captions and sound and the movie must
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be at least one minute.

One student will find the graphics
One student is responsible for putting the movie together
One student will be responsible for writing the captions
One student will be responsible for editing the movie and finding a
sound file.
3. Place a presentation sign-up sheet that gives time slots to when the
students will present and have them, as a group, decide when they would
like to show their final product.
Assessment

The rubric below will be used to grade the students participation and group work
as a whole. It will also include their comprehension of the play and their use of
movie maker/video production skills.

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Rubric

Graphics

How long the

video

Captions

Sound

Good

Fair

Bad

They had all

the 5-7
pictures in the
video.
(5 points)
The video was
at least one
minute long.
(5 points)
At least 5
pictures with a
caption.

They only had

3-4 pictures in
the video.
(3 points)

They only had

1-2 pictures in
the video.
(1 point)

The video was

only 40
seconds long.
(3 points)
There was only
3 pictures with
a caption.
(3 points)

The video was

only 10-20
seconds.
(1point)
There was only
1 picture with
a caption.
(1 point)

The sound was

being cut
throughout the
video.
(3 points)

There wasnt
any sound at
all in the
video.

(5 points)
The sound was
clear in the
video.
(5 points)

(0 points)
Total points:

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