Romeo and Juliet

Schedule for working with Romeo and Juliet:

Week 1-2:

• Introduction to Shakespeare, to the language, to the story

• Getting organized: make a digital journal, check out Romeo and Juliet

• On our feet with the Prologue, meeting the characters

• Act 1

  • listening, reading, getting on our feet with the text

  • annotating Prince Escalus's speech

  • completing Romeo and Juliet: The Love Connection handout

  • Reading, listening, getting on our feet with Act 1

  • Responding to Mercutio's "Queen Mab" speech ("I Dreamt a Dream Tonight) including drawing Queen Mab and her carriage and adding it to our digital journal.

  • "On our feet with scene 5": group versions and discussion

  • Palmers' Kiss sonnet exploration

Week 3-4:

• Act 2

  • listening, reading, getting on our feet with the text

  • Juliet's "night poem"

• Act 3

  • listening, reading, getting on our feet with the text

  • creating tableaux

  • Questions to help us remember Act 3

Week 5-6

• Act 4

  • listening, reading, getting on our feet with the text

  • understanding subtext

  • on our feet with Juliet's fears from scene 1.

  • writing MEAT-y paragraphs on subtext in Act 4

• Act 5

  • listening, reading, getting on our feet with the text

  • a closer look at FATE

  • how the deaths go down in Act 5

• Culminating Assessments

  • Review of our digital journals

  • Watching a full-length adaptation of the play

  • Claiming our lines in the context of the whole story of R&J

  • Whoosh! collaborative re-telling of the story (in PAC lobby)

  • Final Test over the play