Monday, May 2nd:
1st Period:
BIC
Passed out Shakespeare Insult List and open book test on Act
1 of ROMEO and JULIET
Read Act 1, Scene 2 in ROMEO and JULIET
Questions over Act 1, Scene 2
1. When
and at what time does this scene take place? The setting is just after Capulet
is scolded by the Prince. He is walking down the street with Paris on a hot
Sunday afternoon in July.
2. What
does Paris want from Lord Capulet?
3. How
old is Juliet? “She hath not seen the change of fourteen years.”
4. What
does Lord Capulet tell Paris?
5. What
does Lord Capulet invite Paris to?
6. What
dilemma does the servant have?
7. Who
does he stumble upon to help him?
8. Whose
name does Romeo see on the guest list?
9. What
advise does Benvolio give Romeo?
10. Find and
identify an example of metaphor.
For homework tonight: Look through Act 1, Scene 1 and 2, to
find at least three metaphors, similes, personifications, and allusions.
Copy the quotations, explain what the quotation means, and
identify whether it is personification, metaphor, simile, and allusion.
Page 739 - 740, line 135 – 139
Allusion and personification:
“But all so soon as the all-cheering sun
Should in the farthest East begin to draw (draw means to
open or close curtains)
The shady curtains from Aurora’s bed…”
Explanation:
Aurora is the Greek goddess of the dawn rising from her bed
and drawing (or pulling open) the curtains (the clouds) from her bed – which is
a beautiful description of dawn.
Period 3:
Pass out Shakespeare Insult Page and Romeo and Juliet, Act 1 Open Book Test
Acted out the Shakespeare Insult Page
Read Act 1, Scene 2, 3, and 4
Brief discussion over the reading
Questions over Act 1, Scene 2
1. When
and at what time does this scene take place? The setting is just after Capulet
is scolded by the Prince. He is walking down the street with Paris on a hot
Sunday afternoon in July.
2. What
does Paris want from Lord Capulet?
3. How
old is Juliet? “She hath not seen the change of fourteen years.”
4. What
does Lord Capulet tell Paris?
5. What
does Lord Capulet invite Paris to?
6. What
dilemma does the servant have?
7. Who
does he stumble upon to help him?
8. Whose
name does Romeo see on the guest list?
9. What
advise does Benvolio give Romeo?
10. Find and
identify an example of metaphor.
For homework tonight: Look through Act 1, Scene 1 and 2, to
find at least three metaphors, similes, personifications, and allusions.
Copy the quotations, explain what the quotation means, and
identify whether it is personification, metaphor, simile, and allusion.
Page 739 - 740, line 135 – 139
Allusion and personification:
“But all so soon as the all-cheering sun
Should in the farthest East begin to draw (draw means to
open or close curtains)
The shady curtains from Aurora’s bed…”
Explanation:
Aurora is the Greek goddess of the dawn rising from her bed
and drawing (or pulling open) the curtains (the clouds) from her bed – which is
a beautiful description of dawn.
Tuesday, May 3rd:
1st Period:
BIC
Kahoot.it – Romeo and
Juliet, Act 1, Scene 2
Read Romeo and Juliet,
Act 1, Scene 3
What is the setting of Act 1, Scene 3?
The house of the Capulets.
Who are the characters in the scene?
What are they discussing?
What is the relationship between the three characters?
How old is Juliet?
How many teeth does the Nurse have?
When is Juliet’s birthday?
Who was Susan?
What was the joke the Nurses’ husband made about Juliet?
What does Juliet’s mother ask her?
Read page 751, lines 82 – 92. What type of figurative language is used? What is being compared to what?
Descriptions to describe the Nurse: She likes a good laugh! She is earthy.
She is lusty. Earthy means to be open about things having to do with life and
sex and life’s enjoyment of the senses, such as food and sex!
Period 3:
Kahoot.it.com – Romeo and Juliet; Act 1, Scene 2
Romeo and Juliet; Page
756; Act 1, Scene 5
Discussion
Vocabulary:
Marred: to be damaged; to have the original beauty or
quality ruined or spoiled
Romeo and Juliet; Page
756; Act 1, Scene 5
Read
Comprehension Questions for Act 1, Scene 5. Due tomorrow, Wednesday, May 4th:
What is the setting of Act 1, Scene5
What are Lord Capulet and his cousin discussing?
Who does Romeo see for the first time at the party?
Unfortunately, who also sees Romeo as the party?
What does this person want to do to Romeo?
What does Capulet say to Tybalt?
What does Tybalt threaten to do after the party?
What does Romeo compare his lips to on page 758?
What does Romeo compare Juliet to on page 758?
What does Juliet predict for herself if Romeo is married?
Why is this foreshadowing?
Do Romeo and Juliet know the identity of each other when
they first meet?
Wednesday, May 4th:
1st Period:
BIC
8:00 – 8:20
Since many students did not turn in the questions for Act 1,
Scenes 1, 2 and 3, nor the figurative language homework for Act 1, Scene 1 and
Scene 2, time will be given to them to do the homework.
Here’s how to do the
figurative language homework:
Look through Act 1,
Scene 1 and 2, to find at least three metaphors, similes, personifications, and
allusions.
Copy the quotations,
explain what the quotation means, and identify whether it is personification, metaphor,
simile, and allusion.
Page 739 - 740, line
135 – 139
Allusion and
personification:
“But all so soon as
the all-cheering sun
Should in the
farthest East begin to draw (draw means to open or close curtains)
The shady curtains
from Aurora’s bed…”
Explanation:
Aurora is the Greek
goddess of the dawn rising from her bed and drawing (or pulling open) the
curtains (the clouds) from her bed – which is a beautiful description of dawn.
Regina:
Page 745; line 14
Capulet: “Earth hath
swallowed all my hopes but she.”
Personification
Capulet is saying
that all his other children have died except for Juliet. She is his last hope
for posterity.
Read Romeo and Juliet:
Act 1, Scene 4
Mercurial: adjective
to describe someone who is emotionally erratic. They have swift mood changes.
Mercutio is Romeo’s best friend, who is funny, charming, moody, and mercurial.
(Notice that Mercutio’s name is very similar to the word “mercurial” which means moody, which also describes Mercutio. This was intentionally done by Shakespeare to clue the audience in on what kind of character they were watching.)
Discussion of Queen
Mab’s speech
Why does Mercutio
tell Romeo about Queen Mab? What is he trying to do?
Who is Queen Mab?
What does she do at
night?
What does she do if
she gallops across your face in her tiny coach and smells your stinky breath?
Read Romeo’s last
speech on page 755, Act 1, Scene 4. What is he saying? This is an example of foreshadowing.
Foreshadowing is a
literary device used by a writer to hint at something which will happen later
on in the story, the play, or the movie.
Read Romeo and Juliet, Act 1, Scene 5
Please answer the
following questions for homework:
Comprehension Questions
over Act 1, Scene 5:
What is the setting of Act 1, Scene 5?
What are Lord Capulet and his cousin discussing?
Who does Romeo see for the first time at the party?
Unfortunately, who also sees Romeo at the party?
What does this person want to do to Romeo?
What does Capulet say to Tybalt?
What does Tybalt threaten to do after the party?
What does Romeo compare his lips to on page 758?
What does Romeo compare Juliet to on page 758?
What does Juliet predict for herself if Romeo is married?
Why is this foreshadowing?
Do Romeo and Juliet know the identity of each other when
they first meet?
Period 3:
Kahoot.it.com – review of Act 1
Pair up to look
through the entire Act 1 of Romeo and
Juliet for three examples of metaphors, three examples of similes, three
examples of personification, and three examples of allusion, and do the
following:
Copy the page number,
the line number, identify the speaker, copy the quotation, explain what the
quotation means, and identify whether it is personification, metaphor, simile,
and allusion.
Example:
Page 739 - 740, line
135 – 139
Lord Capulet:
“But all so soon as
the all-cheering sun
Should in the
farthest East begin to draw (draw means to open or close curtains)
The shady curtains
from Aurora’s bed…”
Example of figurative
language: Personification and imagery
Explanation:
Aurora is the Greek
goddess of the dawn rising from her bed and drawing (or pulling open) the
curtains (the clouds) from her bed – which is a beautiful description of dawn.
Emily, Ashley,
Kristina
Page 737, lines 67
Tybalt
“Heartless hinds”
Metaphor
He is calling the
Capulets cowards. Hinds is means deer.
Nicole and Kimberly
Page 736, line 34
Sampson
“My naked weapon is
out.”
Metaphor
He is saying that his
sword is unsheathed and ready to fight!
Emily, Ashley,
Kristina
Page 738, line 85 – 86
The Prince is
speaking
“You beasts, That
quench the fire of your pernicious rage/With purple fountains issuing from your
veins.”
Example of figurative
language: Metaphor, imagery
Explanation: You
animals! Who quench your love for fighting by spilling blood!
Timerica:
Page 743, line 210
Romeo is speaking
“With Cupid’s arrow,
she hath Dian’s wit…”
Example of Figurative
Language: Allusion
Explanation: Romeo is
discussing Rosaline with Benvolio and explaining she cannot love him because
she is a follower of Diane who is the goddess of chastity!
Page 743, line 215
Romeo is speaking
“Nor ope her lap to
saint-seducing gold.”
Example of figurative
language: Metaphor
Explanation: Romeo is
saying – obviously with some frustration – that not even gold will seduce
Rosaline to love Romeo
Page 743, line 216 -
217
Romeo is speaking
“O, she is rich in
beauty, only poor”
That, when she dies,
with beauty dies her store!
Irony
Romeo is saying that
even though she is beautiful, she will be poor for when she dies she will not
leave behind any children.
Yubendi, Tyron
Jaynise, Lynn
Page 752, line 25
Romeo is speaking.
“Is love a tender
thing? It is too rough,”
Too rude, too
boist’rous, and it pricks like a thorn.”
Example of figurative
language: personification and simile
Explanation: Romeo is
speaking to Mercutio about love and is saying love is not a tender thing at
all, but loud and rude and it hurts the lover like a thorn.
Nicole, Kimberly
Page 758, Line 92
Tybalt is speaking
“Patience, perforce,
with willful choler meeting
Makes my flesh
tremble in their different greeting.”
Example of figurative
language: personification and imagery
Explanation: Tybalt
has just spotted Romeo at the Capulet party and is enraged that a hated enemy
would trespass. He wants to fight Romeo but is sternly scolded by his uncle to
restrain himself and behave. Tybalt, for the moment, will be obedient to his
uncles’ wishes, but says that he is so angry right now that being forced to be
patient is making his flesh tremble with this enforced restraint.
Vocabulary:
Patience perforce:
enforced self restraints, enforced patience
Choler: rage
Page 758, Line 97
Romeo is speaking:
“My lips, two
blushing pilgrims, ready stand
To smooth that rough
touch with a tender kiss.”
Example of Figurative
Language: Personification and Imagery
Explanation: Romeo is
comparing his lips to pilgrims who are ready to smooth the roughness of his
touch with a tender kiss.
During Elizabethan
times, religious symbols were frequently used with romantic love. The man was seen
as a pilgrim, and his beloved was
seen as a saint or as a goddess. There
were poetic references to the man worshipping at the altar of his beloved.
Thursday, May 5th:
1st
Period:
BIC
8:00 – 8:20
Pair up to look
through the Act 1, Scenes 1, 2, and 3 of Romeo
and Juliet for three examples of metaphors, three examples of similes,
three examples of personification, and three examples of allusion, and do the
following:
Copy the page number,
the line number, identify the speaker, copy the quotation, explain what the
quotation means, and identify whether it is personification, metaphor, simile,
and allusion.
Example:
Page 739 - 740, lines
135 – 139
Lord Capulet:
“But all so soon as
the all-cheering sun
Should in the
farthest East begin to draw (draw means to open or close curtains)
The shady curtains
from Aurora’s bed…”
Personification and
allusion and imagery
Explanation:
Aurora is the Greek
goddess of the dawn rising from her bed and drawing (or pulling open) the
curtains (the clouds) from her bed – which is a beautiful description of dawn.
Regina:
Page 745; line 14
Capulet: “Earth hath
swallowed all my hopes but she.”
Personification
Capulet is saying
that all his other children have died except for Juliet. She is his last hope
for posterity.
Page 738; lines 85 –
86
Prince:
“You men, you beasts,
That quench the fire
of your pernicious rage
With purple fountains
issuing from your veins!”
Figurative
Language: Personification, imagery
The prince is trying
to stop the Capulets and Montagues from fighting. He is telling them that their
destructive, cancerous rage and thirst for fighting can only be quenched by the
spilling of blood.
Pernicious: slowing
moving destruction, that which is insidious, working slowly, undetectably to
destroy
Rage: angry
Jonathan:
Page 739, lines 119
Benvolio:
“Madam, an hour
before the worshiped sun
Peered forth the
golden window of the East…”
Example of figurative
language: Personification, imagery
This means an hour
before the sun rose.
Iambic Pentameter:
(Ma dam) (an hour) (before)
(the wor) (shipped sun)
Iambic pentameter
Iam = two syllables
Penta = five
Meter= rhythm
Did the Shakespeare
Insult Sheet
Divided the students
into groups of two and had them select an insult from column A, column B,
column C and hurl the insult at their rival gangs.
Period 3:
Important Due Dates:
May 5th is
the last day you can turn in your late work!!!!!
May 10th
is the last day you can turn in your AR test and your AR reading log.
May 6th is
the due date for your questions over Act 1 Romeo and Juliet
May 5th is
the due date for your Figurative Language Classwork. Please email it to me or
place the classwork in the wire basket on the stage.
The handouts:
The Open Book Act 1
Test will be due when I return next week.
“The Blank Verse,
Rhymed Verse, and Prose” – this is homework. Please bring to class on Tuesday,
when we will go over it.
Oxymoron Handout
Contradictory:
something which is composed of contradictions or things which are opposites.
Contra = against
Light - light heavyweight
Vague - vague definitions
Bitter - bittersweet -
Strangely - strangely familiar
Civil War –
Civil has two
meanings: within a country; for example, a civil war is when a country is at war
with itself, with two or more large groups of people fighting for power to control the country. The other meaning is acting in a polite, civilized manner.
So a civil war is an oxymoron because people act in the most uncivilized, violent manner
possible during a war.
Fresh frozen: How can something be
fresh and frozen?
Unbiased: a conclusion
which is based on fact and not opinion. So how can an opinion be unbiased?
Friday, May 6th:
1st and 3rd Period:
I will not be present in class on Friday or Monday. Here are the assignments for you on those two days:
Watch Romeo and Juliet, the film.
Answer the fourteen questions over the film in complete sentences and on a separate sheet of paper. This will be due on Tuesday, May 19th.
Questions and Notes
on the film Romeo and Juliet
Please answer in
complete sentences and on a separate sheet of paper.
1.
Describe
the setting in the first scene using at least ten adjectives in complete sentences.
2.
How
would you describe the attitude of the men fighting in Act 1, Scene 1? Were they serious or having fun? Give
specific examples from the film to support your statements.
3.
How
is the first scene in the film different from the first scene in the play?
4.
What
element of Tybalt’s costume was the most cat-like? What does this say about
Tybalt’s character? Describe Tybalt using five adjectives in complete
sentences.
5.
Describe
Romeo using at least six adjectives in complete sentences.
6.
What
were Lord Capulet and Paris discussing?
7.
Describe
the relationship between the Nurse and Juliet in Act 1, Scene 3 in the film.
Use six adjectives in complete sentences to describe their relationship.
8.
Describe
Lady Capulet using six adjectives in complete sentences.
9.
What
did her head dress remind you of? Do you think this was intentional on the part
of the director and costume designer? What does this say about the character of
Lady Capulet?
10. Describe Mercutio’s character using six adjectives in complete
sentences. Discuss Mercutio’s relationship with Romeo. Do you feel that he is a
good friend to Romeo? Give at least three examples from the film to prove your
point.
11. Describe the party in the film using at
least ten adjectives in complete sentences.
12. Was the party in the film better or not as
good as the way you imagined it?
How was it better? Or how was it not as good?
13. Did the film allow you to understand the
play better? Which film scenes from Romeo
and Juliet were the most interesting to you? Which film scenes made the play come more alive for you?
14. Did you like the film? Why or why not? Give
at least three specific reasons and examples to prove your point.
