1. Romeo and Juliet Balcony Scene Close Read  Close Read: Concentrating on certain portions of a text/analyzing author’s craft/purpose  You and your group members will be given line numbers and a question about those particular lines  You will be given a few minutes to discuss your answers and write them down  Everyone must participate—group roles  Use textual evidence to support your thoughts  You may be called upon to share your answers with the class

2. Group Member Roles  Facilitator—keep group members on task, ask questions to keep the discussion going  Reader—read the lines aloud  Recorder—write down answers to questions on a sheet of notebook paper  Speaker—share your group’s discussion with the class  ***Switch roles with each question!!!

3. Read lines 1-32  To whom is Romeo talking? How do you know?

4.  What phrase(s) or word(s) in lines 12-14 can help you make meaning of the word discourses? What can you infer about Juliet’s actions from the way Romeo describes her?

5. Read lines 33-49 aloud in your group  To whom is Juliet speaking?  How do you know?  Hint: How do Romeo’s lines in this passage help support your answer?

6. Lines 33-49  What does the audience know that Juliet does not know?

7. Read lines 33-36  What does Juliet want Romeo to do? Why? Consider what we know about Romeo and Juliet’s families.

8. Read lines 43-44  In these lines, what relationship is Juliet establishing between an object and the name of that object?

9. Lines 33-49  How might Juliet’s soliloquy have been different if she had known Romeo was listening? Hint: Count the number of lines Juliet has in this scene. How does this compare to her earlier speeches?

10. Lines 49-51  What course of action has Romeo just taken? How does this affect the scene?

11. Group Quick Write  Why do you think Shakespeare crafted the scene so that the audience is aware of Romeo’s presence before Juliet is aware? Answer with a well- developed paragraph and use textual evidence cited in proper MLA format to support your answer.  “(Romeo and Juliet Act. Scene. Line/s).