by William Shakespeare Before, During, and After Reading Skills Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare Before, During, and After Reading Skills Act IV

Literary Response Romeo and Juliet Act IV   Read the play carefully and note the choices and decisions the characters make and how those choices and decisions impact the characters, events, and conflicts. Which character do you think is in the most danger at the end of this Act? Explain the situation, why it is dangerous, and how you would have handled the events and conflicts differently. Explain your thoughts and ideas and use evidence from the text to support your response.

Which character made the most serious mistakes in Act IV? Literary Response Romeo and Juliet Act IV   Read the play carefully and note the way the characters interact with each other and the reasons behind their actions. Which character made the most serious mistakes in Act IV? Explain what they did, what happened to them, and how the mistakes impacted other characters in the play. Explain your thoughts and ideas and use evidence from the text to support your response.

Preview and Predictions Before Reading Skills Preview and Predictions Examine the text features located throughout Act IV. Make a list of the things you “know” or “think you know” based only on the text features. Make a list of at least 3 things you want to know, but you need to read in order to find out. What major events do you predict will happen in Act III? What information supports your predictions?

Structure and Purpose of a Drama During Reading Skills Structure and Purpose of a Drama The purpose of a drama is to entertain the audience and to present information/details about the characters. The audience will learn about the characters in several ways. Pay attention to the characters and try to keep them organized as you read. You will be asked to create a character chart to identify the characters and their character traits.

How do we learn about a character during a play? What the characters say What the characters do What other characters say about them How other characters treat them

Act IV Scene 1 909-914 Active Reading Read the entire scene carefully. Pay attention to all sidebar information especially the questions. Answer the Literary and Reading Focus questions found on the bottoms of the page. Complete the annotation guide as you read each page. Visualize how Shakespeare has the story unfold.

Act IV Scene 1 909 Sidebar Questions 15. According to Paris, why is Capulet pushing his daughter to marry so quickly? ??? Lord Capulet thinks that marriage will help Juliet get over her grief for Tybalt.

Act IV Scene 1 910 Connections Juliet tries to ward off Paris while “keeping up appearances” in this part of the scene. How is her behavior similar to or different from how girls in high school behave today? ???

Act IV Scene 1 911 Sidebar Questions What is Juliet holding in her hand? What is she threatening to do? ??? 62. The friar has to put up with a good deal of brandishing of knives and daggers from Romeo and Juliet. Now that the nurse is no longer Juliet’s ally, the friar has to be the confidant of both Juliet and Romeo. He must listen with patience to their threats of suicide if they can’t be together. What line in Juliet’s speech indicates that she has paused and that the friar for a time is silent?

Juliet is distressed and desperate. Act IV Scene 1 911 Sidebar Questions Staging the Play What would Juliet’s mood be as she delivers this speech? What is she willing to do rather than marry Paris? ??? Juliet is distressed and desperate. Rather Paris she would engage in a number of dangerous and potentially fatal activities. LIST THEM!!!

Juliet is to drink the potion Act IV Scene 1 913 Sidebar Questions 89. Juliet must pay strict attention to the friar’s plan, as must the audience. On what day does the friar tell Juliet to take the potion? ??? Juliet is to drink the potion on Wednesday night.

Act IV Scene 1 913 Sidebar Questions B. Reading Focus – Analyzing Cause and Effect *Where have we seen the friar taking care of his herbs and heard him talk of magical potions before? *What will happen to Juliet when she takes the drug? *What complications do you think might occur as a result?

Act IV Scene 1 How is Romeo to be told of this plan? 914 Sidebar Questions How is Romeo to be told of this plan? When is he to watch Juliet wake and take her to Mantua? ??? The friar will send Romeo letters detailing his and Juliet’s intentions. The two men shall watch Juliet wake from her coma, and that very night the two lovers will flee to Mantua

This doubt would make the audience and Juliet anxious. Act IV Scene 1 914 Sidebar Questions 126. Staging the Play In some productions the friar holds Juliet back for just a moment and silently blesses her. Why would this action make us more anxious about what might happen to her? ??? If the friar blesses Juliet, it shows that he has misgivings about the plan’s success and feels the need to bless her in an attempt to ward off bad luck. This doubt would make the audience and Juliet anxious.

The friar has played a significant role in the events of this play. Act IV Scene 1 914 Characterization The friar has played a significant role in the events of this play. What has he done and said? Do you view his actions as positive or negative? What would be your advice to Juliet? Romeo? Friar Laurence?

Plot – Following a Sequence of Events Act IV Scene 1 *THE PLAN* Plot – Following a Sequence of Events Make a numbered list of the exact directions/steps Juliet is to follow based on Friar Laurence’s plan. Make a numbered list of the exact directions/steps Romeo is to follow based on Friar Laurence’s plan. Make a numbered list of the exact directions/steps Friar Laurence is to follow based on his plan. Identify what could go wrong with any and all of the steps you have listed for each of the characters. Which character do you think has the most significant role to play in the Friar’s plan?

Act IV Scene 4 919-921 Sidebar Questions 1. How does this peaceful domestic scene contrast with what has just happened? ??? The Capulets and their servants are making jokes and busily preparing for the wedding; meanwhile, Juliet lies in her room in a deathlike state, having risked her life to avoid what her family celebrates.

Act IV Scene 4 12. What is Lady Capulet’s tone here? ??? 919-921 Sidebar Questions 12. What is Lady Capulet’s tone here? ??? Lady Capulet is teasingly affectionate here, poking fun of her husband’s past womanizing.

Act IV Scene 4 919-921 Sidebar Questions 23. The music is the bridal music, for the wedding. What irony would the audience sense on hearing this music and knowing what has happened to Juliet? ??? The audience knows that Juliet will not be Paris’s bride and that the wedding music will give way to a funeral dirge.

Reading Focus Question Act IV Scene 4 919-921 Reading Focus Question A. Analyzing Cause and Effect – Why do you think Capulet is so happy to see his daughter marry Paris? What effect will the marriage have on his family and the feud between the Capulets and Montagues? ??? Lord Capulet is happy to have Juliet marry Paris because it increases the family’s social standing in Verona. In addition, the marriage may help the Capulets gain an ally in the feud.

Act IV Scene 5 Pages 922-927 Read the scene and all information and questions carefully. * Summarize the major events on each page. * Identify 2-4 significant lines on each page using the line numbers only. State the importance and/or meaning of the lines. * Select the mood, tone, or character trait that is revealed through the lines.

Most Significant Lines Select a total of four lines from Act IV that you thought were important, interesting, funny, or odd. Copy the lines, page(s), and character(s) involved. Translate any words or phrases that need to be clarified. Explain the meaning of the lines and what was happening in the play as the lines were being spoken.

The Language of Shakespeare How is the language of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet different from the language we use? Identify the differences. Translate Shakespeare’s words into modern language. Explain the meaning of important lines from Romeo and Juliet.

Storyboard A storyboard is a series of small illustrations to tell a story. You will be creating a 9-box storyboard to summarize the most important events from Act IV. Be sure to select the 9 scenes carefully and make your illustrations accurate and clear (use labels if necessary). On the back of the storyboard write a 9 sentence summary of Act IV.

Illustrate how you would create the scene on a stage. Staging the Scene An important part of reading drama is the ability to visualize the scenes. As you read the scenes in Romeo and Juliet, try to imagine how the scene could be created on a stage to convey the setting to the audience. Select a scene from Act IV that you could “stage” for a production of Romeo and Juliet. Illustrate how you would create the scene on a stage. Be creative!!!

You may use ONE 3x5 index card during the quiz. Quiz Tomorrow on Act IV!!! You may use ONE 3x5 index card during the quiz. No other materials will be available to you during the quiz. Everything on the card must be handwritten – no typed information.

Predictions and Purpose Setting Which predictions were accurate? Which ones need to be changed/revised? Which questions did we find the answers to while reading? Which questions do we still not know the answer to yet? Do we need to any any new questions to look for as we read?