1. Romeo and Juliet..in txt msg.

2. LIT IN TXT 4MAT For this activity, I would like you to choose any of the stories we have worked with this term (The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, The Sniper, Flowers for Algernon) and write a dialogue / conversation between two characters...in the form of a cell phone text message or IM chat. This is a language that your age group has invented. Use it!

3. Possible ideas: Text conversation between the two snipers (YRU shooting@me?!) Grinch texts Cindy Lou Who to ask her to keep it on the down low. Charlie Gordon texts his 'friends' after Muggsy's (I H8 U!) These are just a few possibilities...show me what you can do. Here's one that I did. Yours should be a bit more detailed than this. You may work in pairs if you like.

4. Romeo and Juliet’s Balcony Scene. Romeo: R U Awake? Want 2 chat? Juliet: o Rom. Where4 art thou? Romeo: Outside yr. window. Juliet: Stalker! Kidding. Romeo: had 2 come. Feeling jiggy. Juliet: B careful. My family h8 u. Romeo: TMAI. U? Juliet: ‘m up 4 marriage F U R. Romeo: dsnt mat-r. 2moro@9? Juliet: C U then…xxx Romeo: xxx