1. Common Core Standards:
RL , RL , L
Thursday, May 9th, 2019
Aim: How can we analyze characters’ deceptive qualities in Act 4?
Objective: Students will identify and analyze the deceptive behavior of characters within Act 4.
Do Now: Answer one of the following questions.
1.) If you were Juliet about to take the potion the night before your wedding, how would you be feeling? What thoughts are you having? OR
2.) Imagine you’re the nurse and you find Juliet after she drinks the potion. How do you react?

2. Common Core Standards:
RL , RL , L
Thursday, May 9th, 2019
Aim: How can we analyze characters’ deceptive qualities in Act 4?
Objective: Students will identify and analyze the deceptive behavior of characters within Act 4.
Agenda
1.) Do Now: Answer the Do now. Turn and talk with your tablemates.
2.) Reading and Listening: We will be listening to an audiobook version of Romeo and Juliet. It will occasionally be paused and questions will be asked in order to gauge understanding of the text. Pay attention to how the actors read the play. What emotions can you hear in their voices, and what parts do they emphasize?
3.): Work Period/Reflection:

3. “Leave me to myself tonight”
The Nurse and Juliet have finished picking out clothes for Juliet’s wedding. Once they have finished Juliet informs the nurse that she must be alone tonight. Lady Capulet enters the scene as well and is told the same thing. Juliet asks her mother to allow the nurse to sleep with her tonight. Why is Juliet making this request?
Juliet needs the privacy because she is going to drink the potion that the friar gave her after which it will seem as if she has died.
When Juliet is alone she delivers a soliloquy that gives us insight into how Juliet feels as she prepares herself to drink the potion that will decide the fate of her life. How is she feeling right now?
The first six lines reveal to us that she is conflicted and she is nervous. For a second she considers calling her mother and nurse back to comfort her, but she decides against it. She is clearly scared about not knowing what will happen after she takes the vial.
Look at the picture, what shows you how she is feeling?

4. “What if this mixture does not work at all?”
Juliet wondering what might happen if the potion might not work questions whether she should just kill herself to guarantee that she avoid marrying Paris. She also reveals to us other doubts she has about the potion. What are they?
She considers the possibility that maybe the friar might have given her poison to kill her since it would look bad on him if what he did comes to light, but ultimately says that he is a “holy man”.
She now reveals why she was scared about taking it. She starts to consider all of the things that could go wrong if she takes the potion. She considers the possibility that she might wake up before Romeo gets there and suffocates from a lack of air in the tomb, that she might go insane because of all the darkness and death around her, to wake up and see Tybalt’s rotting body, and any other terrible scenarios she can think of.
Before Juliet takes the vial she sees something? What is it? What does it mean?

5. “Go wake Juliet”
We can see the preparation that is going on early the next morning, the Capulet household is still making last minute preparations for the wedding and Capulet sends for the nurse to go wake Juliet for he thinks Paris is arriving soon. What is going to happen next?.
Right, we’re probably going to hear a bit of screaming and yelling because we know how the nurse is going to find Juliet.
The nurse knocks on Juliet’s door and enters her room because she isn’t getting a response. She thinks that Juliet is asleep. What does she say? “Sleep for a week, for the next night, I warrant, The County Paris hath set up his rest That you shall rest but little.”
The nurse opens up the bed curtains that were hiding Juliet and is surprised to see that Juliet is dressed in all of her clothes. But then she realizes what is going on and starts to panic! What does she think?

6. Juliet is dead
Juliet is dead! That is what Lady Capulet and the nurse must be thinking because of the potion. We know that isn’t the case though. This is an example of what again?
Capulet enters the scene and says Paris is here to see her! Oh no, that’s not gonna happen. Lord Capulet sees her and notices that she is cold, her joints are stiff, and that she is dead. Do you think the potion worked or is she actually dead?
Friar Lawrence enters with Paris and he asks if Juliet is ready to marry. He is informed of what has happened and everyone is mourning the “death” of Juliet. The Friar says that she is in heaven now and that they must accept the fact that she is gone. This conversation mirrors the one he had with Romeo and about loving moderately. Here he is almost telling the Capulets to mourn moderately. They agree to use the wedding preparations for the funeral.
Everyone but the musicians exit the scene. Peter requests that they play a happy song to lighten the mood, but the musicians don’t play for free. The scene ends when they all exit.

7. Reflection Identify two examples of dramatic irony in Act IV.
If Juliet had never met Romeo, might she have fallen in love with Paris? Why or why not?
What fears does Juliet have before going through with taking the vial Friar Lawrence gave her?
What does the fact that Juliet took the potion despite her hesitations and fears reveal about her and her emotions?
Answer these questions, you can work together with people at your table.