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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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:
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."
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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Enrollment:
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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 5th:
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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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.
