Today we are going to do the following: 1) Discuss what happened in Act 2 of Romeo and Juliet. 2) Look up new vocabulary words. 3) Quiz on Poetry Out Loud. 4) Journal entries for Romeo and Jluliet and 5) Make a study guide
NEW VOCABULARY:
Absolved:
Loathsome:
Forsworn:
Gallant:
Exile:
Devise:
Pensive
Consort:
Wayward:
Dismal:
Fickle:
Conduit
Write a journal entry of 1 paragraph discussion how
long Romeo and Juliet have known each other, who asked who to marry, and
speculated on how many rules Friar Lawrence broke in marrying them.
Break into your groups and rewrite Act II as a mini-play in contemporary english.
1) 5 Elements of Tragedy
2) 5 Elements of a Tragic Hero
3) Dramatic Foil (definition, examples and explanation of examples)
4) Oxymoron (definition and example from play)
5) Metaphors: Direct, Implied, Extended (definitions and examples)
6) Sonnets - four elements
7) Monologue and Soliloquy definition and examples
8) What has happened in Acts 1-3
9) The plot (exposition, inciting event, rising action)
Today we need to finish Act 1 of Romeo and Juliet and write
summaries of scenes 4 and 5 (if you haven't done so), but first I'd like
you to spend 15-20 minutes working on Poetry Out Loud.
We are going to take some notes on literary elements in Shakespeare and then finish reading scene 3 and 4. First please write sentences with vocabulary.
Today, you need to spend the first 20 minutes of class working on memorization of your poem for Poetry Out Loud. Then, rank the following social offenses (1-13), watch Act 1 Scene 1 of Romeo and Juliet, and look up your vocabulary.
Consider the following social offenses. Rank each in order of seriousness with 1 being the most serious.
Planning to trick someone
Lying to parents
Killing someone for revenge
Advising someone to marry for money
Two families having a feud
Killing someone by mistake while fighting
Cursing
Killing someone in self-defense
Suicide
Crashing a party
Marrying against parents' wishes
Giving the finger
Picking a fight
NEW VOCABULARY:
Rosemary
Sallow
Waverer
Perverse
Cunning
Procure
Lamentable
Kinsmen
Unwieldy
Variable
HOMEWORK: Write a blog entry - practicing prewriting and organizing
(meaning you list ideas and then try to organize them into a structure) -
with a thesis statement ( a controlling idea) and a hook about whether
you believe in LOVE at FIRST SIGHT. Note - I want you to use examples
from your life or your parents' lives or from books, movies, friends
that you seen or heard about? Do you believe in it? Remember - Romeo and
Juliet claim to fall in love at first glance. Explore the idea. You
might be reading these out loud in class tomorrow.
Shakespeare: Tragedy, Comedy and Metaphor
“The poem, the song, the picture is only water drawn from the well of people
and it should be given back to them in a cup of beauty so that they may drink—
and in drinking, understand themselves.”
--Lorca
This unit will give students a chance to look at Shakespeare from a
personal and cultural perspective. The class will break of the structure
of the play Romeo and Juliet and discuss how metaphor and symbol, plot
and theme work in conjunction with the development of characters and
ideas. Ultimately, students will need to answer what “Romeo and Juliet”
represents to our culture and what it personally means to them. Students
will need to reflect on personal experience and apply it to the play.
OBJECTIVES: At the end of this unit students will be able to
Knowledge:
1) List the five elements of tragedy
2) List the five elements of a tragic hero
3) Define theme, plot, setting, foreshadow, oxymoron, soliloquy, personification, dramatic foil, metaphor, symbol, simile
4) Give the four elements of a sonnet and a brief description of traditional sonnet themes
5) Describe how sonnets are used in Romeo and Juliet
6) Define various vocabulary words from the play
7) List three things the prologue of the play does
Comprehension:
8) Identify a metaphor within a line of poetry
9) Identify the rhyme scheme of a English sonnet and break a sonnet into quatrains and couplets
10) Give a brief description of all the characters and their roles in the play
11) Given a line of dialogue identify the speaker
12) Outline the plot and break in up into exposition, inciting event,
rising action, climax, falling action and catastrophe (or resolution)
13) Summarize each scene into a headline
Application
14) Demonstrate an understanding of a scene in a drawing
15) Demonstrate a relation of characters to contemporary times through a
simulation called “TOO HOT FOR SHAKESPEARE: ROMEO AND JULIET LIVE ON
THE JERRY SPRINGER SHOW”
16) Demonstrate an understanding of characters and acting techniques by
writing out a script (including the lines, subtext, emotion or tone, and
blocking) and acting out the scene from memory
17) Demonstrate an understanding of the play by writing journal entries
and in-class writing assignments including a Dear Abbey Letter,
interviews with citizens of Verona, Wedding Vows between Romeo and
Juliet, personal responses, in-class presentations on characters.
Analysis
18) Write a persuasion paper on Romeo and Juliet.
19) In an essay compare and contrast a Shakespeare Comedy to a Shakespeare Tragedy.
20) In an essay discuss with evidence from the text who is responsible for the deaths of “the star-crossed” lovers
Today you will need to pick out a poem from the Poetry Out Loud website: https://www.poetryoutloud.org/search/?type=poem. After you have your poem picked out, you will need to read over it a few times and then write a paragraph stating what it is about (what is it's theme and main idea). You will need to email this and the poem's title to me). Then, you'll need to start memorizing the poem.
The POL competition is on Wednesday February 2nd at 6:30 pm on the school stage.
This is a requirement. You must have a poem memorized and ready to
perform. This is also an easy grade:
50 points for the memorization
30 points for showing up to the performance
20 points for the acting of the poem.
The winner of POL receives a $50 gift certificate to Radio Shack and has a chance to go the State Championship in March.
Here is a link to the POL judging guidelines
This rubric is also how you will be graded on the "acting" portion.
