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Romeo & Juliet 2.3-2.6
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Balcony Scene Rewrite
Romeo & Juliet
1. In your groups, review 2.2.49-186 -- the balcony scene.
2. Imagine this scene is occurring today and
Romeo and Juliet are communicating via text
message.
3. Rewrite Romeo and Juliet's conversation in text
message format. This will require you to both
translate Shakespeare's language into modern
English as well as keep each character's texts
under 160 characters in length.
Act II Scenes III & IV
Warm-Up: 11.28.12
Newspaper Headlines
Vocabulary 2.5-2.6
Word Definitions
Pretend you are a newspaper editor. Your job as a group is to write brief, memorable headlines for each of the scenes of Acts I & II. Each group will be assigned at least two scenes. Try to use some of Shakespeare's language!
1. louring dark, threatening
2. feign act as though
3. simple foolish
4. hot impatient
5. confounds destroys
6. blazon describe
Double Entry Journal
1. FRIAR LAURENCE:
Holy Saint Francis, what a change is here!
Is Rosaline, whom thou didst love so dear,
So soon forsaken? young men's love then lies
Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes. (2.3.65-68
Warm-Up: 11.19.12
Power Word Review
Review Act 2 Scene 2 and try to find at least one of each of the following:
Warm-Up: 11.20.12
- metaphor
- imagery
- oxymoron
- sonnet
- allusion
In your groups, develop a modern day cast list for the characters of Romeo & Juliet we have encountered so far.
2.3-2.4 Vocabulary
Write down the line and page numbers.
Word Definition
1. Make a list of all of the characters we have heard from in Romeo & Juliet Acts I & II.
2. Next to each name, choose one actor or actress who your group would cast as that character.
3. Be prepared to explain your choices!
1. baleful harmful
2. strained forced
3. unstuffed carefree
4. physic medicine
5. cheveril leather
6. hoar spent
7. ropery vulgar humor
8. protest vow
9. quit reward