Good Day to thee thou clouted tickle-brained baggage! It’s Tuesday. We are almost ready for the play… woohoo!

Today’s Classroom Learning Objectives Students will be able to write 5 lines in response to a prompt. Students will be able to write 5 lines in response to a prompt. Students will write two new words in their study guide composing an original sentence for each word and will identify meaning, antonyms, and synonyms for each word. Students will write two new words in their study guide composing an original sentence for each word and will identify meaning, antonyms, and synonyms for each word. Students will identify the terms soliloquy, aside, and stage terminology as it relates to Romeo and Juliet. Students will identify the terms soliloquy, aside, and stage terminology as it relates to Romeo and Juliet.

Do Now Watch the video clip from the play Macbeth. Would you have like to see a play such as this in the Elizabethan period, why or why not?

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Today’s Classroom Learning Objectives Students will be able to write 5 lines in response to a prompt. Students will be able to write 5 lines in response to a prompt. Students will write two new words in their study guide composing an original sentence for each word and will identify meaning, antonyms, and synonyms for each word. Students will write two new words in their study guide composing an original sentence for each word and will identify meaning, antonyms, and synonyms for each word. Students will identify the terms soliloquy, aside, and stage terminology as it relates to Romeo and Juliet. Students will identify the terms soliloquy, aside, and stage terminology as it relates to Romeo and Juliet.

Console – (v.) to comfort; (n.) keyboard of an organ, a control panel for an electrical device Synonyms – (v.) soothe, solace, alleviate Antonyms – (v.) distress, torment, vex

Dilate – (v.) to make or become larger or wider; to expand upon Synonyms – enlarge, expand, swell, prolong Antonyms – contract, compress, constrict

Do Now Watch the video clip from the play Macbeth. Would you have like to see a play such as this in the Elizabethan period, why or why not?

Literary Terms- On the Stage Act- 1. Subdivision of a play 2. Chapters in a book Scene- 1. Subdivision of the act 2. Similar to textbook sections 2. Similar to textbook sections Props- stage furnishings that add reality to the play

Literary Terms- On the Stage Dialogue- conversation between two or more characters Soliloquy- A dramatic speech given by a character revealing his or her thoughts without addressing a specific listener. Aside- a part of an actor's lines supposedly not heard by others on the stage and intended only for the audience

Literary Terms- On the Stage Stage Right- Right Side of the Stage from actor’s point of view Stage Left- left side of the stage from the actor’s point of view Upstage - 1. Back part of the stage 2. area of the stage farthest from the footlights 2. area of the stage farthest from the footlights

Literary Terms – On the Stage Downstage - 1. nearest the audience 2. area of the stage away from the footlights 2. area of the stage away from the footlights Audience - people watching the play

Literary Terms- On the Stage

Today’s Classroom Learning Objectives Students will be able to write 5 lines in response to a prompt. Students will be able to write 5 lines in response to a prompt. Students will write two new words in their study guide composing an original sentence for each word and will identify meaning, antonyms, and synonyms for each word. Students will write two new words in their study guide composing an original sentence for each word and will identify meaning, antonyms, and synonyms for each word. Students will identify the terms soliloquy, aside, and stage terminology as it relates to Romeo and Juliet. Students will identify the terms soliloquy, aside, and stage terminology as it relates to Romeo and Juliet.

Shakespeare’s Plays Tragedies- 1. roots in greek tragedy involving a hero, 2. often with a fatal flaw (pride, obsession), 3. leads to the hero’s death Comedies - On the note sheet Histories – Sometimes considered Tudor propaganda

Freytag’s Pyramid Plot Elements Plot Elements - this is something we have talked about constantly Without a plot there is no…. Without a plot there is no…. - ??????

Plot Progression

Exposition – Romeo and Juliet Setting- Includes time & place Situation- Explanation of the play or piece of literature Characters: Capulets & Montagues, servants, Townspeople within the city of fair Verona (Italy)

Plot Progression Rising Action Series of events leading to a high point of action Inciting Incident Initiates action of the play Climax Highest point of the action in the play Falling Action Series of events following the climax Resolution Final revelation or outcome of a tragedy Final revelation or outcome of a tragedyDénouement any remaining secrets, questions or mysteries after the resolution

Today’s Classroom Learning Objectives Students will be able to write 5 lines in response to a prompt. Students will be able to write 5 lines in response to a prompt. Students will write two new words in their study guide composing an original sentence for each word and will identify meaning, antonyms, and synonyms for each word. Students will write two new words in their study guide composing an original sentence for each word and will identify meaning, antonyms, and synonyms for each word. Students will identify the terms soliloquy, aside, and stage terminology as it relates to Romeo and Juliet. Students will identify the terms soliloquy, aside, and stage terminology as it relates to Romeo and Juliet.