1. Common Core Standards:
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Thursday, April 4th, 2019
Aim: How can we review the events of Act 1 and 2 to better understand the themes, plot, and characters in Romeo and Juliet?
Objective: Students will prove their knowledge over the events of the first two acts of Romeo and Juliet.
Do Now: Answer one of the following questions.
1.) Paris wants to marry Juliet, and Juliet’s parents want her to marry him too. How might this affect the play moving forward? OR
2.) How are the nurse and the friar comparable (similar) and contrasting (different)?

2. Common Core Standards:
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Thursday, April 4th, 2019
Aim: How can we review the events of Act 1 and 2 to better understand the themes, plot, and characters in Romeo and Juliet
Objective: Students will be able to analyze the text to further develop their comprehension of the themes, plot, and characters in Romeo and Juliet.
Agenda
1.) Do Now: Answer one or both questions, turn and talk with your tablemates. Captains will prepare to share with the class.
2.) Mini-Lesson: Recall important events that will affect the action of today’s reading. That have occured in both Acts 1 and 2 in order to review for Monday’s exam on the text.
3.) Exam Prep: Review for the exam on Acts I and II
4.) Reflection: Romeo and Juliet have now been married in secret, and the deed is done. Only their most trusted people know about it. Do you think Romeo and Juliet were acting rationally when they decided to get married? What other sensible arrangements could have been made instead?

3. The Nurse Returns
We know the nurse has gone to learn the details of the plan from Romeo. Juliet is waiting for her return. How does she feel?
Juliet is complaining about how the nurse is taking her sweet time to return. Juliet ends up blaming the nurse’s old age as the reason why she has taken a long time. How rude
The nurse decides to act a little coy (reluctant to give details) about the conversation with Romeo when she gets back despite Juliet being visibly concerned about the details. What does she say when she ultimately does?
Clearly the nurse would rather Juliet marry Paris instead of Romeo based on what she says about him but regardless she tells Juliet of the plan providing her with the information she needs. Juliet is informed that she must go see Friar Lawrence and that she has to set out the rope Romeo requested. It is happening!

4. The Big Day
Juliet has set off to meet with Friar Lawrence and Romeo, who are with us once at the beginning of the scene waiting for her arrival.
Romeo and the friar are talking and Romeo cannot stop gushing over his soon-to-be wife. Saying that a love-devouring death can do what it wants so long as it arrives after his marriage. Foreshadowing anyone?
Juliet enters the scene, greetings are exchanged and everyone who is present knows why they are there. Everyone exits and the two lovers are married (off-stage). Shakespeare chooses to have the wedding done off-stage, meaning the audience doesn’t actually see the ceremony take place. Why do you think that is?

5. On Monday, April 8 - Test on Act 1 and Act 2
On Monday we will be having a test covering the first two acts of Romeo and Juliet. It will consist of about 20 multiple choice questions. Questions will cover information we’ve talked about during our readings and our classwork questions. We will also be answering a couple of Kahoot questions, some of which might even appear on the test so pay attention!
Reflection: Romeo and Juliet have now been married in secret, and the deed is done. Only their most trusted people know about it. Do you think Romeo and Juliet were acting rationally when they decided to get married? What other sensible arrangements could have been made instead?