1. Romeo and Juliet quote analysis & final discussion questions

2. Do Now (in your notebook)
Do Now- Before we started reading, we discussed how Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy. How will the community benefit from the deaths of Romeo and Juliet? Pick a character who loses their life in the play (Mercutio, Tybalt, Paris, Romeo, Juliet, or Lady Montague) and discuss how you think their memory will live on after their death.

3. Group 1: discuss your responses with the class
Could one person other than Romeo or Juliet have saved their lives if he or she would have acted differently over the course of the play?

4. “Out of her favor where I am in love.”
Group 1 (continued) Quote analysis Speaker- context-summary- significance
“Out of her favor where I am in love.”

5. Group 1 (continued) speaker- context-summary-significance
“But come, young waverer, go with me.
In one respect I’ll thy assistant be;
For this alliance may so happy prove
To turn your households’ rancor to pure love.”

6. Group 2 – Discuss your responses with the class
Do others have control over our lives?

7. Group 2: speaker- context-summary-significance
Help me into some house, Benvolio
Or I shall faint. A plague a’both your houses!
They have made worms meat of me.”

8. Group 2 Speaker- Context- Summary- Significance
“There is no world without Verona walls, But purgatory, torture, hell itself. Hence banished is banished from the world,
And world’s exile is death.”

9. Group 3 Discuss your responses with the class
What types of issues are presented in the play that any teenager can relate to today?

10. Group 3 speaker-context-summary-significance
“How, will she none? Doth she not give us thanks?
Is she not proud? Doth she not count her blessed,
Unworthy as she is, that we have wrought
So worthy a gentleman to be her bride?”

11. Group 3 Speaker-context-summary-significance
“Take thou this vial, being then in bed,
And this distillèd liquor drink thou off,
When presently through all thy veins shall run
A cold and drowsy humor, for no pulse
Shall keep his native progress, but surcease.
No warmth, no breath shall testify thou livest.”

12. Group 4 discuss responses with the class
What makes the tragedy of two “star-crossed lovers” universal? (*remember - universal means people all over the world can relate to the idea)

13. Group 4 speaker-context-summary-significance
“O my love, my wife! Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty. Thou art not conquered. Beauty’s ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death’s pale flag is not advancèd there”

14. Group 4 Speaker- context-summary-significance
“Here’s to my love! (drinks the poison) O true apothecary,
Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.”

15. Group 5 discuss responses with the class
How did you feel about the ending of the play? Who do you feel is most at fault for what happened?

16. Group 5 speaker- context-summary-significance
“Romeo, there dead, was husband to that Juliet,
And she, there dead, that Romeo’s faithful wife.
I married them, and their stol'n marriage day
Was Tybalt’s doomsday, whose untimely death
Banished the new-made bridegroom from the city—
For whom, and not for Tybalt, Juliet pined.
You, to remove that siege of grief from her,
Betrothed and would have married her perforce
To County Paris. ..”

17. Group 5 Speaker-Context-Summary-Significance
“A glooming peace with it this morning brings. The sun for sorrow will not show his head. Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things; some shall be pardoned, and some punished; For never was there a story of more woe, Than this of Juliet and her Romeo”