The due dates for these projects are also noted on the Course Calendar. These form the ground level of your research in the course, and you may build them for your class presentations or your final papers. I can hand out copies of these to those who need them, but otherwise please print them out here as 
.pdf files.
Note that you may do the last project below or a Presentation. You may do the presentation alone or with one other person. The days on which you may do presentations appear on the Calendar. If you do a presentation, however, you will have to plan ahead so it can be scheduled: you will hand in this form by January 31st to tell me whether you are going to choose this. This fairly early date is necessary to give everyone who wants to present time to do so.
Project No. 1: Learning how to use the Oxford English Dictionary. Due January 29th. Here is the grading rubric.
Project No. 2: You have a choice here of a project on Old English or a project on Middle English. Due by 
March 4th. These are from the relevant chapters from the Workbook; both work on details of grammar. Here is the OE grading rubric; here is the ME grading rubric.
Project No. 3: Renaissance Vocabulary. Due April 1st. Here is the grading rubric. I will hand out a finished example of the kind of analysis I'm looking for (which won't be posted as a .pdf).
For help on this: here are two on-line concordances to the King James Version. They are slightly different--providing different amounts of context, though both have the original, not an updated, vocabulary:
The ARTFUL Project will let you search the Bible in several different languages (helpful if you want to make a linguistic comparison). The Humanities Text Initiative has many searchable texts; you can search the KJV on this page.
The Works of the Bard. This seems to be the one site which allows you to search all of the plays at once. The Works at MIT. Easy to use; search one play at at time. The ELF. You can search one play at a time here. The Great Books Index. Very clearly laid out, to search one play at a time. The e-Server Collection from Carnegie-Mellon. This is great because it has lots of other plays too. The Perseus Project's Renaissance collection also has lots of other Renaissance texts along with Shakespeare's works. Project 4: World English Due by Thursday, May 1st. Here is the grading rubric. You may choose to give a presentation instead of write this project.
Format: Projects 3 and 4 should be a minimum of 3 pages, formatted in MLA Style, typed in a professional font (11 or 12 point, Times New Roman), and have 1" margins all the way around. MLA Style, which applies to both layout and documentation, is described in any writing handbook (such as those which I assume you purchased for a composition course). READ THIS on how to Quote! Not following this style will adversely affect your grade. In an upper level English course, I assume knowledge of this coming into the course. Writing projects which are too short will also hurt your grade; the assignment is to manage analyses which contain this much information.