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Students will conduct an interview in the StoryCorps style. They must provide a list of 10 questions, an audio version of the interview, and a transcript of the audio.

For use in rewriting boasts created before reading Beowulf. Students use gained knowledge in Anglo-Saxon Poetry to elevate their boasts in ways that would make Beowulf proud.

Create and present your own satire. You may choose to draw a cartoon, act out a skit, create an entirely new song or rewrite lyrics to an existing song, or write a short story. You must write a summary of your satire in which you explain the situation you are satirizing (who/what you are picking on), what political or social aspect or issue is the focus of the satire (what you want to change), and how you are satirizing it (explain the joke).

Using satirical conventions learned though the study of Swift and Pope, students will create a satirical commentary on a subject of their choosing.

Students will work in groups to adapt the original text of Macbeth to modern language and will act out their adaptations for the class. Students will also draw the central action of the scene on a piece of poster paper.