1. Brainstorm with your group: What is one question you have about the plot/characters of Romeo and Juliet? When you agree on one, come up and write it.

2. Cause and Effect Game:
Work with your table group to match every “cause” card with its “effect” card
The winning group (s) will get a prize on Monday to go with their quiz

3. Cause: The Montagues and Capulets have an ancient feud

4. Effect: The Prince decrees that the next Montague or Caplet to fight will face death

5. Cause: Rosaline does not love Romeo, causing him to be lovesick and depressed

6. Effect: Benvolio promises he will find Romeo a new girl

7. Cause: Capulet’s servant does not know how to read

8. Effect: Romeo and Benvolio find out about Capulet’s party

9. Cause: Paris asks Capulet for permission to marry Juliet

10. Effect: Capulet invites Paris to his party to woo Juliet

11. Cause: The Nurse has raised Juliet since she was a baby

12. Effect: Juliet trusts and depends on the Nurse for most of the play

13. Cause: Capulet stops Tybalt from killing Romeo for crashing the Capulet party

14. Effect: Tybalt swears to kill Romeo and writes a letter challenging him

15. Cause: Romeo and Juliet flirt at the Capulet party

16. Effect: Romeo and Juliet fall in love

17. Cause: Romeo’s friends make fun of him after Capulet’s party

18. Effect: Romeo goes into the Capulet’s garden/orchard by himself

19. Cause: Juliet goes onto her balcony to talk to herself about how she has fallen in love with Romeo and wishes their families were not enemies

20. Effect: Romeo proclaims his love for Juliet and asks her to marry him

21. Cause: Romeo asks Friar Laurence to marry him and Juliet

22. Effect: Friar Laurence marries Romeo and Juliet in secret

23. Cause: Romeo stays out all night talking to Juliet

24. Effect: Romeo never receives Tybalt’s challenge

25. Cause: Romeo rejects Tybalt’s challenge in the streets of Verona, and proclaims his love for Capulets

26. Effect: Mercutio challenges Tybalt in place of Romeo and is slain

27. Cause: Benvolio tells Romeo of Mercutio’s death

28. Effect: Romeo slays Tybalt

29. Cause: The Prince sees that Tybalt and Mercutio are dead and demands explanation

30. Effect: Benvolio recounts the fight between Tybalt, Mercutio, and Romeo

31. Cause: The Capulets call for justice due to Tybalt’s death

32. Effect: The prince banishes Romeo

33. Cause: Romeo hears of his banishment

34. Effect: Friar Laurence arranges to send Romeo to Mantua

35. Cause: Juliet hears of Romeo’s banishment and threatens to kill herself

36. Effect: The Nurse arranges for Romeo and Juliet to have their wedding night

37. Cause: Juliet seems really sad (apparently about Tybalt’s death)

38. Effect: Capulet rushes a wedding between Paris and Juliet

39. Cause: Juliet’s parents threaten to throw her out if she doesn’t marry Paris

40. Effect: Juliet begins to lie to her parents about how happy she is to marry Paris

41. Cause: Juliet asks Friar Laurence for help avoiding her wedding to Paris

42. Effect: Friar Laurence makes Juliet a potion that will make her look like she is dead

43. Cause: Juliet takes the potion Friar Laurence gives her

44. Effect: Juliet’s parents hold a funeral for her and put her in the Capulet tomb

45. Cause: Balthasar sees Juliet’s funeral

46. Effect: Balthasar tells Romeo that Juliet is dead

47. Cause: Romeo learns of Juliet’s death

48. Effect: Romeo buys poison from an apothecary and rides to Verona to die beside Juliet

49. Cause: Friar Laurence sends Friar John to tell Romeo about Juliet’s faked death, but is locked out of Mantua

50. Effect: Friar John fails to deliver the letter and returns it to Friar Laurence.

51. Cause: Friar Laurence learns his letter was not delivered

52. Effect: Friar Laurence hurries to the Capulet cell, where he discovers Romeo and leaves Juliet upon hearing a noise

53. Cause: Paris goes to Juliet’s grave to give her flowers and sees Romeo

54. Effect: Romeo kills Paris to avoid being turned in to the prince

55. Cause: Romeo sees Juliet’s dead body and takes the poison

56. Effect: Juliet wakes to see Romeo is dead and stabs herself with a dagger

57. Cause: Paris’s servant sees Paris die in his duel with Romeo

58. Effect: Paris’s servant runs to get the prince, watchmen, and other authorities

59. Cause: The prince sees Paris, Romeo, and Juliet dead

60. Effect: The prince summons the Montagues and Capulets to the Capulet tomb

61. Cause: The Montagues and Capulets see their children dead and hear Friar Laurence’s explanation

62. Effect: The two dueling families make peace and promise to create statues to honor their dead children.

63. The Question game! Rules:
Use the character cards of one person at your table group
Shuffle them and divvy them out
You will, if invited up to the front, be asked to answer the question posed to you based on the character you are
If someone guesses your character correctly based on your answer, you get a piece of candy