May 29, 207 - June 2, 2017 Weekly Agenda for 9th Grade English

Monday, May 29th: 
No school today!

Read pages 870, when Lord Capulet enters.

What is Juliet’s reaction when she finds out she is about to be married to Paris on Thursday?

What is Lady Capulet’s reaction when Juliet says no to the arranged marriage with Paris?

What is Lord Capulet’s reaction when Juliet tells him no?

He calls her names like “strumpet”, which means a whore! He disowns her and tells her she can die in the street if she refuses to marry Paris.

What does the Nurse tell Juliet to do after her parents leave?

To commit bigamy, which is being married to two people at the same time. The Nurse tells her to forget about Romeo, because Paris is the better man.

What fateful decision does Juliet make when the Nurse tells her what she thinks?

Juliet decides to pretend she is not angry at the Nurse for giving her this advice (she "plays it off" in front of the Nurse) but secretly Juliet decides the Nurse cannot be trusted and to NEVER confide in her again.

Where does Juliet decide to go now?

She decides to go to the Friar and ask the Friar for advice.  If all else fails, she will commit suicide.

Act 4, Scene 1:

Juliet encounters Paris and much like she did to her mother in the previous scene, she answers Paris’s questions as to whether she loves him, with riddling answers which tell the truth – she does not! She loves another!

After Paris leaves, Juliet pours her heart out to the Friar and threatens suicide! The Friar gives her a potion, which will make her fall into a death-like sleep for forty-two hours. This will prevent her from marrying Paris. Thinking she is dead, her parents will bury her in the family mausoleum. The Friar will send notice to Romeo to be there when she wakes up and they will run off to Mantua and live until the Friar can tell the parents the truth.

Act Four, Scene 2:

Preparation for the wedding!

What was the mood during the scene?

Juliet pretended to be the obedient and contrite daughter.

This made Lord Capulet very happy because he likes to get his way.

He was in such a good mood that he moved the wedding up a day – to Wednesday!  
What effect will this have on the Friar's plans? 

Wednesday, May 31st: 
Turn in your vocabulary and grammar book to the book room. 
Read Act Four, Scene 3, 4, and 5!
Brief discussion! 
Finish discussion tomorrow! 

Thursday, June 1st: 
 

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Romeo and Juliet

Act 4, Scene 3

Page 883

This is the last time Juliet will see her parents and Nurse.

Juliet is getting ready for bed in preparation for what major event tomorrow morning?

She will be getting married to Paris under orders from her parents.  This is called an arranged marriage!

Go through Juliet’s soliloquy and find three things she is terrified of regarding drinking the potion.

Soliloquy is when a character is speaking alone on stage revealing to the audience his or her inner thoughts.

Carolina: What if this mixture does not work at all and I shall be married to Paris?

Carolina: What if she wakes before the Friar and Romeo arrive and she finds herself surrounded by dead molding ancestors! Juliet becomes so terrified by the sight that she goes insane and beats her brains out with her grandfather’s leg bone.

Jasmin: What if the Friar actually gives her poison and it kills her?

Shianne: But the Friar has always been an honorable man.

Juliet works herself into a state of panic, “sees” the ghost of Tybalt coming towards her and cries out to  Romeo to come to her.  She then drinks the potion.

Act 4, Scene 5

The Nurse tries to wake Juliet up but thinks she is dead.

What do you think the Friar is thinking as he walks in to the room?

Sam, Hellen, Gina:

Capulet moving up the wedding from Thursday to Wednesday means that Juliet will probably wake up early alone in the tomb. This means that the Friar must send a letter to Romeo telling him about the plan.

What words of comfort does he give the family?
That death is actually a promotion to Heaven. Why are you crying, then? You displease God and are running counter to his will by crying over your daughter's "promotion."

Act 5, Scene 1

Page 895

Setting: Mantua, where Romeo has been exiled or banished!

Romeo has been having strange dreams where he is dead and Juliet kisses him back to life!  This is foreshadowing! He is very happy and unaware of what is occurring in Verona.

Balthazar, his servant, arrives to tell him that Juliet has died.

Romeo, overcome with grief, decides to go to an apothecary to buy some poison to commit suicide. He chooses an impoverished apothecary (a druggist or chemist) to sell him the very illegal poison – the selling of which guarantees immediate

execution to whomever sells the poison! But the apothecary is so poor and desperate that he willingly sells Romeo the highly illegal drug!

Apothecary:  a chemist, a druggist, a pharmacist

Act 5, Scene 2

Back in Verona

The Friar’s Cell

Vocabulary:

Carolina, Malia, Hellen correctly defines the word "corse"

Corse: Corpse

Corpse is a dead body!

This is foreshadowing and irony. Juliet is not dead yet……

Who is Brother John?

He is the assistant to the Friar.

What was he supposed to do?

Brother John was supposed to deliver the letter explaining everything to Romeo – that in order to get out of marrying Paris in her parents’ arranged marriage, the Friar gave Juliet a potion that mimics death. HOWEVER, JULIET IS NOT DEAD!!!!!! Her parents, thinking she is dead, buries her in the family mausoleum. In forty-two hours Juliet will wake up in the mausoleum and be waiting for him, Romeo, to take her away to Mantua where they will live happily ever after or until the Friar tells the parents and they accept the idea.

Friday, June 2nd

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Romeo and Juliet

Act 5; Scene 3:

Page 898

Setting: a churchyard where the dead are buried

Juliet is sleeping in the Capulet mausoleum

Mausoleum: a large ornate building  to house the dead of a very wealthy family

Vocabulary:

Page: a young servant to a lord or upper class, wealthy person

On Monday, June 5^th:

You will have a test over Romeo and Juliet

Your notes over Romeo and Juliet will be due BEFORE THE TEST!

And no, this is NOT an open book test!

Your essay on Romeo and Juliet must be submitted on or before 11:59 p.m.,

on turnitin.com on Monday, June 5, 2017.
Class I.D. - 13628756
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Romeo and Juliet Essay Topics

You must submit your essay to turnitin.com, no later than Monday, June 5, 2017 @ 11:59.

Class ID: 13628756

English9

 Choose one of the following topics and write a well-organized and well-crafted five paragraph essay.

1. Is Mercutio a foil to Romeo? A foil is a character whose personality or traits are the opposite of those of the the lead character; these differences point out and highlight the personality of the lead character. You should find quotations and examples from the play to support your thesis. You may want to use your Act 2 vocabulary packet to help you on this one.

2. Examine Shakespeare’s use of light and dark in literary tropes to illustrate Romeo’s mood in the play. For example, in the beginning of the play Romeo frequently refers to darkness and heaviness; it is when he meets Juliet that he begins to speak of lightness (“It is with love’s light wings did I o’er perch these walls...”) You must find examples to support your thesis.

3. Examine Shakespeare’s use of irony to enhance the suspense in the play. One might examine the dramatic irony in Act 4, Scene 2 in which Juliet’s mother informs her of her impending marriage to Paris. There are many examples of situational and dramatic irony, as well as some verbal irony, in ROMEO and JULIET. Give at least three examples of irony (one of each: situational, verbal, and dramatic) in the play.

4. Examine the role of women in the play: Juliet, the Nurse and Lady Capulet. Show how each responds to the crisis in her life: Juliet’s forced marriage to Paris; Lord Capulet’s abuse of the Nurse and Lady Capulet, and Juliet’s estrangement from the Nurse. You might also wish to consider Lady Capulet's life; in all probability she too was forced into an arranged marriage at the same age as Juliet. Notice in Act 4 Lady Capulet's response to Lord Capulet's sudden decision to change the wedding date. How much resistance does she offer? Does Lord Capulet even consider her objections? Consider too that this scene follows hard upon Act 4, Scene 2 in which Lord Capulet reacts violently to Juliet's refusal to bend to his will. Consider the Nurse's hard, realistic advice to Juliet. Did her life experiences teach her to be pragmatic and realistic?

5. Discuss the theme of the play, ROMEO and JULIET. Find examples to support what you believe is the theme of the play.

6. Throughout the play Romeo makes frequent references to the stars and to the prophetic power of dreams. However, is it the stars and dreams that lead to Romeo's and Juliet's deaths or is it just poor, rash judgment on his part that leads to tragedy? Be sure to use examples from the play to support your thesis.

7. Analyzing the text, find examples in which the characters' poor decisions lead to the tragedy. What better decisions could Lord and Lady Capulet, the Montagues, the Friar, the Nurse, Mercutio, Tybalt, and of course, Romeo and Juliet have made that would have averted tragedy? You might want to use your "consequences" paper to help you on this.

8. Compare and contrast Romeo and Juliet. How are they similar and how are they dissimilar?

9. Compare and contrast any two characters in the play. How is Benvolio a foil to Mercutio? Or how is Tybalt a foil to Mercutio? Or how is the Apothecary a foil to the Friar?

10. Discuss Shakespeare's use of literary language to enhance meaning in the play. Some of the literary language you may wish to consider are: personification, metaphor, simile, allusion, imagery, apostrophe and ironic devices. How does he use these devices to: reveal character or to enhance suspense or to reveal theme or to forward the plot.