1. Wednesday – February 4, 2015
Entry Task
Silent reading/daily edits
Participation today is based on the entry task
Agenda
Daily edits
Review characters & CD gathering packet
Act 1.1 – listen to audio
Adding CDs to packet
Homework:
NONE

2. You will need… Daily edits Pen/pencil Blue character chart
Green CD packet
No Fear Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet

3. Learning Targets I will identify and fix grammatical errors.
I am familiar with important characters in Romeo and Juliet
I know some tips on how to read a Shakespearean tragedy.
I will record CDs that support my ideas

4. Success Criteria Students will have…
…completed Wednesday’s daily edits
…listened to Act 1, Scene 1 Romeo and Juliet
…recorded 2 CDs that demonstrate the factors which resulted in R and J’s deaths

6. Internal factors External factors
Essay Prompt:
Internal factors External factors
(body para. #1) (body para. #2)
Are Romeo and Juliet to blame for their deaths? If so how much of it can be blamed on their personality flaws or their individual choices? How do other factors such as family expectations, society pressure, fate/destiny, secrets contribute to their deaths?

7. Characteristics of a Shakespearean Tragedy
Characters
Dramatic Conventions
Tragic Hero
the protagonist, or central character
usually fails or dies because of a personality flaw or a cruel twist of fate
Soliloquy
a speech given by a character alone
exposes a character’s thoughts and feelings to the audience
Antagonist
the adversary or hostile force opposing the protagonist
can be a character, a group of characters, or a non-human entity
Aside
a character’s remark that others on stage do not hear
reveals the character’s private thoughts
Foil
a character whose personality and attitude contrast sharply with those of another character
Dramatic Irony
when the audience knows more than the characters
helps build suspense
Comic Relief
a humorous scene or speech intended to relieve tension
p.177

8. Reading Shakespearean Tragedy
Act III
Act IV
Act II
Act V
Act I
Resolution

9. Tips for Reading Shakespearean Tragedy
Keep track of the relationships between characters. Are they...
Friends?
Relatives?
Enemies?
Also, consider a character’s dramatic function ...
Tragic hero
Antagonist
Foil
Comic relief
which will help you interpret his/her words or actions.

10. Tips for Reading Shakespearean Tragedy
Note important character traits revealed through dialogue, soliloquies, and asides, as well as through the action.
Do the characters show any flaws or weaknesses?

11. Tips for Reading Shakespearean Tragedy
Look for cause-and-effect relationships between events, especially those events that lead to the tragic outcome.

12. Act 1 Wordy Summary Sampson and Gregory, servants to the Capulets and Abraham and Balthasar, servants to the Montague family, start a street fight, which is joined by Benvolio (Montague) and Tybalt (Capulet). Escalus, the Prince of Verona who angrily learns of this fight, declares a death penalty for further feuding between the two families. Romeo we learn is lovesick; Rosaline, the object of his affections will not return his love. His friend Benvolio tells Romeo to look at other girls...

13. Act 1 bullet-point summary
1.1 Brawl
1.2 Paris & Capulet talk; Romeo and Benvolio learn about the party
1.3 Lady Capulet, Nurse & Juliet talk about Paris
1.4 Queen Mab gives men wicked dreams
1.5 The Capulets throw a party and Romeo and his friends crash it. R & J meet for the 1st time

14. Example Factor: Fate Act CD + Notes1
( ) Tybalt insults the Montagues and Benvolio tries to maintain the peace. Tybalt successfully gets Benvolio to have a sword fight showing that not matter what the two families will be in conflict.

15. Romeo Act I.i.169-175 Romeo’s Description of Love
What do these contradictory terms reveal about his feelings about love?
“heavy lightness”
“brawling love”
“loving hate”
“misshapen chaos of well seeming forms”
“serious vanity”
“feather of lead”
“bright smoke”
“cold fire”
“sick health”
“still-waking sleep”
Collections TE p.189

16. Factor: Personality Flaw
CD + Notes 1
Romeo’s hyperbole about love shows that he is a slave to it and shows he cannot think straight
How will this lead to his death?
Rome’s love for his enemy’s daughter puts his life in danger because he will do anything to keep love alive.