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Actis Inquest: Romeo and Juliet

"Prince Escalus, in order to decide who should be punished for the deaths of Romeo, Juliet and Paris, has ordered a full inquiry. Your students, as agents of the Prince, must interview the remaining characters involved in the tragedy and report back to you, as Prince Escalus, with their recommendations. . . .School Term Licence £65.00 (£76.38 inc VAT)."

Bartlett, Russ. Scatterbrained Soliloquies.

"Small groups of students will look at a famous soliloquy or monologue whose lines have been written on separate pieces of paper and then scrambled. As the students work to reassemble their scrambled passages, they will become more aware of sentence structure, meter, meaning, characterization, and vocabulary."

Burleson, Carolyn O. Literary Explorer Presents Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare.

[Reading quizzes, discussion questions, a few links.]

Carothers, Lisa. Shakespeare.

[Scroll down the page to find some tips and tricks for teaching Romeo and Juliet.]

Clarkson, N. Romeo and Juliet Unit .

[Reading quizzes, a worksheet on conflict, a couple of essay topics.]

DePew, Jeff. Romeo & Juliet License Plates .

"After we finish the play, I have the students think up some creative 'personalized license plates' for various characters. . . . They have as much fun trying to guess what the other plates say as they do making their own."

Erlich, Richard D., et al. Study Guide for Baz Luhrmann's 1996 William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet..

[Film credits & three discussion questions.]

Fairman, Rosemarie. Romeo and Juliet Timeline .

"The students will develop a timeline that presents the action of the play according to the DAY on which it occurred and assist each other in reviewing the action of the play."

Field, Rebecca. 17th Century Rules of Marriage.

"This activity allows students to examine a primary source from 1604 to help them gain a better understanding of the rules of marriage in the early seventeenth century, and to apply that knowledge to the play in several ways."

Flygare, Jeff. Attitudes.

"Consider the following social offenses. Rank each in the order of seriousness, with 1 being the most serious. . . . After reading the play. . . . Rank the following acts according to seriousness of offense."

Foret, Katherine, and Kristin Weber. Rewriting Romeo and Juliet: A Shakespearean WebQuest for High School English Students .

"Show . . . that Shakespeare's stories can be transferred to almost any time period, including the Wild West, Mob-ridden Chicago, 50s Suburbia, and the 1960 Counterculture."

---. Creative Writing Activity.

"Rewrite the ending of the play. You need not, of course, do it in blank verse, but you should feel free to resolve the dramatic situation in a way that is personally satisfying."

---. Creative Writing - Romeo and Juliet: Becoming Familiar with the Language of Shakespeare.

"Choose one of the following to write a scene using some of Shakespeare's language. . . , a scene between a mother and daughter in which a conflict arises because the daughter wants to go out with a boy that the mother dislikes. . . , a scene between a father and son in which a conflict arises because the son wants to go to a party being given by a family or person the father disapproves of."

---. Romeo and Juliet Role Play.

"Create a scene where all these forces come into contact with each other. What will happen when the two families meet in the center of town? What will be the reaction of the other people in the town?."

Huntley, Nancy. A Ninth Grade Unit for Romeo and Juliet.

"Goal: To develop an awareness of the importance of COURAGE, GOOD JUDGMENT, and INTEGRITY through the study of fictional characters and historical figures in 9th grade curricula for English and ELP (Economic, Legal and Political Systems). [NOTE: Despite the title, it's never clear how Romeo and Juliet fits into this lesson plan.]

Johnson, Darin, and Jeannie Goodwin. Parenting 101 .

"Students will examine Romeo and Juliet in the context of three excerpts from The Office of Christian Parents: Shewing How Children Are To Be Gouerned throughout All Ages and Times of Their Life. These excerpts deal with instructions for the following: raising a daughter, raising a son, and marriage. Printed in 1616, the anonymous author of the text was codifying these mandates during Shakespeare's lifetime."

Joy, Deborah A. Jottings from Juliet .

"Each student will assume the persona of a character in Romeo and Juliet and create an appropriate diary."

Kramer, Linda. Family Feud.

"Students play the game 'Family Feud' with a few modifications in order to review material studied during the Romeo and Juliet unit."

Littauer, Joel Sommer. ROMEO AND JULIET By William Shakespeare: Grade 9 Teaching Guide.

"Students write an act-by-act plot description of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. . . . Students examine and write about specific major characters in Romeo and Juliet. . . . Students synthesise data on character and plot into a unified composition."

Massi, M. J. Study Questions for Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

[From Dr. Massi's class at Washington State University.]

McDonagh, Lisa P. Figurative Language Alive: Balcony Scene Charades.

"This lesson plan is intended for a middle school group that will learn how Shakespeare uses figurative language and abstract comparison in the famous balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet. To this end, students will play figurative language charades with 10 lines from the scene."

Merritt, Cheryl E. Romeo and Juliet and Westside Story: Time Stands Still in Literature.

"This unit can be taught in the middle school, grades 6-8. It is designed for slow learners, but not limited to slow learners. The suggested teaching time for this unit is eight to ten weeks. Teachers will be able to introduce students to the joys of reading the well known classic, ROMEO and JULIET. It includes discussion questions, questionnaires of facts, vocabulary study, lesson plans, and lists of books, films, and recordings for both teachers and students. . . . Students will be able to sort out their own sense of family. Is family loyalty important and why? . . . Both Romeo and Juliet and Westside Story are centered around conflicts of young people. The adults seemed alienated from the needs of the youths and are not sympathetic to them."

Moore, Andrew. Studying Romeo and Juliet.

"This web page is intended for students who are following the AQA/NEAB GCSE syllabuses in English Language (1111/1112) and English literature (1121). . . . If you study a play by Shakespeare for GCSE, your work should have certain kinds of content. For all grades (from G to A*) you are expected to write (or speak) about three things:

• What the play is about - subject and theme (this appears as such things as 'nature of the play, implications and relevance' [Grade C] or its 'moral, philosophical or social significance' [A*]).
• Technical aspects of drama - characters or characterisation, stagecraft, appeal to audience.
• Language - especially for dramatic, poetic or figurative effect, and patterns and details of words and images [A*]

This task requires you to study one or more importants scene from the play. It can accompany work on this play or others, when you submit your work on Shakespeare for assessment. Comments that follow are organised according to the three categories (kinds) of comment above."

Petersohn, Cheryl A. "Here's much to do with hate, but more with love": Types of Love in Romeo & Juliet.

"In this lesson students will list and define various kinds of love, examine the characters and their relationships in terms of the kinds of love they represent, and find textual examples to illustrate these kinds of love throughout the play."

Peterson, Rona, and Dana Patterson. Romeo and Juliet Lesson.

"Students will review the basic structure of a stock/flow diagram. Next, students will use the Systems Kit to develop their own stock/ flow diagrams and defend their decisions. A debrief/discusssion period will follow in which the students have the opportunity to evaluate their use of the stock/flow diagram and the topics discussed in class." [I never did figure out what a stock/flow diagram was. Also, the link is to a PDF file, so you have to have Adobe Acrobat.]

Reed, Arthea J.S. A Teacher's Guide to the Signet Classic Edition Romeo and Juliet.

"This teacher's guide will be divided into several parts: (1) a brief literary overview, including a synopsis and commentary on the play; (2) suggestions for teaching the play, including activities, discussion questions, and essay topics to be used before, during, and after reading of the play; (3) ideas to extend the students' learning beyond the play, including ways to address its themes, ideas for teaching literary analysis, techniques for using the play as a bridge to other works, and ways to use the play as part of an interdisciplinary study; (4) suggestions for avoiding censorship; and (5) bibliographies, including additional pedagogical sources, other works of literature addressing similar themes, and interdisciplinary sources. Throughout this study guide attention will be given to the ability level of the students, and specific activities, discussion questions, and topics will be labeled as to difficulty."

Romeo and Juliet.

"The students will utilize the computer to find fun facts on the famous writer and dramatist, Shakespeare, in order to make them more aware of the time period in which the play, "Romeo and Juliet," was set. In order to learn these facts they will be using a software application CD called Shakespeare's London. They will also be allowed to use the internet for this purpose as well. They will also be working on masks that they will wear during the reading of the play to make things more interesting."

Romeo and Juliet English 1.

[Mostly review questions and essay topics.]

Romeo and Juliet (Secondary III).

[Recommends study materials and links. About halfway down the page there are links to five student activities, all in PDF format, which means that you have to have an Adobe Acrobat Reader. The "activities" are mostly essay topics.]

Roth, Eileen, and Jean Burdett. Friendship Cards from Romeo and Juliet .

"Making and exchanging friendship cards provide students with the opportunity to interpret Shakespeare's language while having fun. Students who are uncomfortable with the language in Romeo and Juliet will become less hostile to it as they locate quotations and apply them to daily life"

Schwanfelder, Kathy. Themes in "Romeo and Juliet" .

"I ask them to really start listening to their music and decide if any of the themes in their music reflect any of the themes in Romeo and Juliet. They then share their favorite selection with the class and explain how the music relates to the play."

Squier, Sarah. "Oh, She is Lame": Juliet and the Nurse .

"Students will read, talk, listen, think, watch, analyze, discern, and write in order to explore the relationship between Juliet and the Nurse in Act 2, scene 5 of Romeo and Juliet."

Turner, Sinead Waters. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare.

"The following is a set of lesson plans that was created to teach a multimedia unit on William Shakespeare's play, Romeo and Juliet."

Vanest, Travis. Romeo and Juliet Character Hunt.

"In pairs, students develop a list of objects that symbolize personality traits of a character from Romeo and Juliet . Students collect at least five objects for each character. During the second class session, students take turns trying to decipher which character is being symbolized."

Webster, Michelle. Integrating Shakespearian Tragedy with the Internet.

"A ninth grade interdisciplinary unit on Elizabethan England and Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet for English, art, and computer classes."

Wright, Stephen M. Romeo and Juliet: A Quest Upon the Web: A WebQuest for Freshmen.

"In this Quest upon the Web you and those with whom you journey will be given certain tasks to perform. One of you will be the Actor and discover what it was like in Shakespeare's day. Another of you will take on the role of Alchemist, determining the extent of scientific knowledge during the period as compared to today. Yet a third will be the historian whose job will be to book a trip to London. Finally, there will be the play critic whose task it will be to critically examine Romeo and Juliet."

'You Kiss by the Book': Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

"Students look first at the sonnet in which Romeo and Juliet meet, analyzing the imagery to gain insight into the way Shakespeare's use of love sonnet conventions characterizes the moment and the relationship between the lovers. Then students act the passage to notice how Shakespeare stage manages this moment, and consider what perspective his making the lovers almost literally 'kiss by the book' lends to our perception of their characters. Finally, students enact the scene in which this moment occurs, in order to notice how Shakespeare combines poetic forms  . . . . To conclude, students work in groups to find similar moments in the play  . . . ."

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