Becoming the Bard

In this task, students will locate, interpret, and translate into modern English a scene from Othello that focuses on Iago’s power to convince. Students will need to first understand and then interpret the play and its rhetorical devices (logos, pathos, and ethos). They must be able to locate the presence of rhetorical devices in a scene. For the first part of the assignment, they will translate the scene into modern day English in the format of a play or a song. For the second part, students will produce and record their translation. Lastly, the students will perform their adaptation for the class.