2. Romeo & Juliet in a Few (English) Words!
By Belle Badell
Summer 2013

3. English 1 Though ESOL
Most students were level 1 ESOL – very limited English proficiency.
About 20% arrived in the country after winter break.
Small groups of 4 – Higher proficiency level student volunteer to help. Only those willing students helped with language, assignments, reading/translating.

4. Building Background I knew very little or nothing about: Renaissance
Shakespeare
And in addition to that… It was my first year teaching ESOL at the high school level!

5. Curriculum Specialist MDCPS Bilingual department: Mrs. Maria Cueto
Asked for help!!!
Curriculum Specialist MDCPS Bilingual department: Mrs. Maria Cueto

6. Reach Out! Curriculum Specialist in your Bilingual/ESOL department
History teachers
English teachers
Colleagues in your department

7. Building Background Renaissance Shakespearean Theater Shakespeare
Shakespearean Drama

8. Renaissance PowerPoint
Give students printed material (Ex: The Spread of the Renaissance word document)
Show/discuss PowerPoint – students take notes
Two sources of information – CCSS!

9. Shakespeare Shakespeare’s life Shakespeare as a writer
Universal themes
Reached all sorts of audiences
Shakespeare’s influence in the English language
Characteristics of the Shakespearean drama

10. Key Ideas Is love stronger than hate? Debate activity in textbook
Love quote activity

11. Love is a smoke and is made with the fume of sighs
Shakespeare’s love quote
Love is a smoke and is made with the fume of sighs
Shakespeare love quote 11:
Romeo & Juliet – Act 1, Scene 1
From:

12. Characteristics of the Shakespearean drama
Key Ideas
Characteristics of the Shakespearean drama

13. Introducing Romeo & Juliet

14. Romeo & Juliet - Characters

17. Prologue - [Enter Chorus.]
Two household, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes,
A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life,
Whose misadventure piteous overthrows
Doth with their death bury their parents’ strife.
The fearful passage of their death-marked love,
And continuance of their parent’s rage,
Which, but their children’s end, naught could remove,
Is now the two hours’ traffic of our stage,
The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.
[Exit]
Listen – Use online audio summary

18. [Enter Chorus.] Lines 1-4 1 Two households, both alike in dignity,
2 In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
3 From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
4 Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
3-4 ancient… unclean: A new outbreak of fighting (mutiny) between families has caused the citizens of Verona to have one another’s blood on their hands.

19. Teaching the play Combination of summaries and graphic novels
Small group discussions
Students created concept maps
Discussed with entire class
Read and discuss selected parts of the play (Use online audio)

21. Follow up Projects Create a different version:
Modernize the play
Different plot or ending
Design Romeo & Juliet’s Wedding
Create a movie poster
Create a FaceBook page
Act out a part or rewrite and act
Here is an example…

22. Performance Based Rubric Sample
Presentation rubric link

23. Performance Based Rubric Sample Creating a Poster
Creating a poster rubric link

24. Follow Up

25. Have fun!!!

27. Romeo & Juliet Links (new finds!)
Canadian Shakespeare... Interactive folio:
(Plot synopses are great.)
Prologue with music background & Act 1 audio:
Letters of heartbreak to Juliet in Verona:
Soundtrack-Music activity:
Pick up lines activity:
Anticipation guide-Romeo & Juliet:

28. Resources http://www1.ccs.k12.in.us/teachers/esalona1/Elizabethan
Animated Tales of Shakespeare
“Shakespeare in Love”
“Romeo & Juliet” Zeffirelli’s version (1968)
Discovery Education