The Hobbit Project Options & Rubrics

This product offers four culminating project options once students finish reading The Hobbit. In addition, comprehensive rubrics for each project are offered. Project options are listed below:

1. Ten Journal Entries
Objective: Demonstrate an understanding of characterization and character transformation over the course of a text.

Pretend you are Bilbo Baggins. Write a minimum of 10 journal entries detailing your journey. These entries should not be plot summary! Rather, they should provide insight into Bilbo’s thoughts… ***complete details included in purchased version***

2. Comic Strip/Graphic Novel
Objective: Demonstrate an ability to discern key events leading to a transformation of character.

Adapt a chapter of your choice into a comic strip or graphic novel. Be advised: You are expected to select a chapter in which a key character undergoes a significant transformation, and you are to artistically reflect that transformation. You must extract key quotations… ***complete details included in purchased version***

3. Character Interview
Objective: Demonstrate an understanding of characterization and character transformation over the course of a text.

This option would work best with one partner. Choose wisely, for both individuals will receive the same grade--no exceptions. Your commitment to this project choice reflects your acceptance of that condition. Develop a list of 25 open-ended (not “yes/no”) questions that a reporter… ***complete details included in purchased version***

4. Travel Brochure
Objective: Demonstrate a firm grasp of setting and its influence on character and plot development.

Pretend you are a travel agent whose job is to arrange visits to settings referenced in The Hobbit. Choose four of the following settings: Bag End, Rivendell, Ravendell, Mirkwood, Lonely Mountain, and Lake Town. Create one pamphlet for your four settings. The pamphlet should include… ***complete details included in purchased version***

Objectives of projects include (but are not limited to) the following:
1. Demonstrate an understanding of characterization
2. Demonstrate an understanding of dynamic character
3. Demonstrate an ability to discern key evidence in support of ideas
4. Demonstrate an understanding of setting and its influence on plot development
5. Demonstrate an ability to work efficiently in both independent and group contexts