Introduce Romeo and Juliet Understanding the Language Insult worksheet Tomorrow meet in the Library to research William Shakespeare Tuesday, March 25
Anticipation Questionnaire for Romeo and Juliet Answer the questions in complete sentences in your journals (15 minutes). Social Offenses Rank each offense between 1, 2, 3, or 4 with 1 being the most serious and 4 being the worst. Compare your answers with 2 to 3 others and see where you are similar and different (15 minutes). In your journals answer the following questions: Monday, April 7
1.What does each of the social offenses situations have in common? Explain 2.Select one of the social offenses and discuss which character attributes are lacking in a person that would commit such an act. Attributes: respect, honesty, fairness, responsibility, loyalty, self-discipline, courtesy, trustworthiness, compassion, integrity. 3.What factors do you think contribute to a person participating in this offense? Questions
Tuesday, April 8: Prologue 1.What type of poem is this? 2.How many lines does it have? 3.How many sections does it have? Each section has a specific purpose. 4.Copy the following 10 literary terms and their definitions into your journal 5.Complete the line by line translation of the prologue.
Literary Terms 1.Punplay on words Sun/son 2.Alliterationrepetition of initial sounds Forth the fatal loins of these two foes 3.Oxymorona combination of contradictory words A fine mess 4.Allusiona reference to something literary or historical 5.Metaphorcomparison to two unlike things 6.Hyperboleexaggeration
7.Ironyto opposite of what is expected 8.Comic reliefan interlude to lessen the emotion 9.Foreshadowto give a hint of what is to come 10.Asidesomething said to the audience only
Read Act I Answer Act I Questions in your journal Wednesday, April 9
Finish Act I Begin Watching Act I Thursday, April 10
Finish Act I Friday, April 11
Begin Reading Act II Pass out Act Two Study Guide Monday, 14 April
Finish Reading Act II and working on study guide Tuesday, 15 April
Watch Act III Finish Questions Wednesday, 16 April
Find 15 words that you do not know or that are difficult. Define each Tell the part of speech Use correctly in a sentence Tomorrow: Turn in journals with Act II questions and vocabulary Tomorrow: open book quiz on play so far Thursday, 17 April
Quiz on Play, Acts 1 and 2 Turn in journals Friday, 18 April
Begin Reading Act III Monday, 21 April