Cópia de Explore Romeo & Juliet

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.4

Standards

Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language evokes a sense of time and place; how it sets a formal or informal tone).

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Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.

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Standards

Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme.

Analyze how an author draws on and transforms source material in a specific work (e.g., how Shakespeare treats a theme or topic from Ovid or the Bible or how a later author draws on a play by Shakespeare).

Goals or Objective

Understand the language of Shakespeare through text analysis

Goals

Use the language of Romeo and Juliet to understand implied meaning and

literal meaning

Develop an ability to analyze characters through the course of a play

Overview of the Lesson/Unit/Information

Possible In-Class Activities

Character Analysis

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Worksheet that can be used for the Prologue, text analysis

https://www.k12reader.com/worksheet/shakespeares-romeo-and-juliet-understanding-the-prologue/view/

Identify additional supporting characters who are influential to the play and work in small groups to complete a character analysis (questions are provided).

Overview

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Students will perform the prologue to Romeo and Juliet as a pre-reading activity. Through movement and vocal work, students will work in groups to create a brief presentation of the prologue to clarify meaning, get to know the style and language of the text, and make inferences about the play's central questions.

https://www.folger.edu/pre-reading-romeo-and-juliet-performing-and-analyzing-the-prologue

Plot

Plot

Characters

Characters

HOUSE OF CAPULET

HOUSE OF MONTAGUE

Lady Capulet

Lord Montague

Lord Capulet

Lady Montague

Mother of Romeo

Father of Romeo

Mother of Juliet

Father of Juliet

Juliet

Romeo

Daughter of Lord and Lady Capulet, in love with Romeo

Son of Lord and Lady Montague, in love with Juliet

Benvolio

Petruchio

Tybalt

Cousin to Romeo, Nephew to Montague

Nephew to Capulet

Companion to Tybalt

Peter

Nurse

Sampson

Abram

Gregory

Friar Lawrence

Friar John

Balthasaar

Servant to Montague

Servant to Romeo

Maid and Confidant to Juliet

a peaceful priest friend to Romeo

Servants to Capulet

Setting

Verona, Italy

Verona

Setting

Class question:

Is there importance to the setting being in Verona, Italy? Why or why not?

The Prologue

Enter Chorus

Two households, both alike in dignity

(In fair Verona, where we lay our scene),

From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,

Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.

From forth the fatal loins of these two foes

A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life;

Whose misadventured piteous overthrows

Doth with their death bury their parents’ strife.

The fearful passage of their death-marked love

And the continuance of their parents’ rage,

Which, but their children’s end, naught could remove,

Is now the two hours’ traffic of our stage;

The which, if you with patient ears attend,

What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.

Text

Chorus exits.

Line by line, what does this mean?

Character Development

Character name

Romeo and Juliet are the main characters in the play. However, there are additional characters that are essential as the plot develops.

Their relationship to Romeo or Juliet

What is their role in the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet?

Your first impression of them

What could they have done differently?

Class question:

How do you feel about them at the end of the play?

What is their motivation?

Who are some of the important supporting characters in the play?

Work in small groups to complete the following character analysis.

What is their pivotal moment in the play (describe and find text evidence)?

Character

Language

Language

Word choice, meaning, and tone

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She speaks, yet she says nothing. What of that?

Her eye discourses; I will answer it.

I am too bold. ’Tis not to me she speaks.

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Enter Juliet

Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven,

Having some business, do entreat her eyes

To twinkle in their spheres till they return.

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But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?

It is the East, and Juliet is the sun.

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What if her eyes were there, they in her head?

The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars

As daylight doth a lamp;

2

Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,

Who is already sick and pale with grief

That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she.

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her eye in heaven

Would through the airy region stream so bright

That birds would sing and think it were not night.

3

Be not her maid since she is envious.

Her vestal livery is but sick and green,

And none but fools do wear it. Cast it off.

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See how she leans her cheek upon her hand.

O, that I were a glove upon that hand,

That I might touch that cheek!

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It is my lady. O, it is my love!

O, that she knew she were!

Adaptations

Adaptations

1530

1554

1562

Romeo and Juliet through the centuries

Giulietta e Romeo, a novella written by Matteo Bandello

The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet, a poem written by Arthur Brooke

A Story Newly Found of two Noble Lovers, a story written by Luigi da Porto

1867

1790

1837

C. 1594

C. 1580

Romeo and Juliet, a painting by James Northcotte

Romeo played by actress Charlotte Cushman

The Palace of Pleasure, collection written by William Painte

Romeo and Juliet, an opera by composer Charles Gounod

Romeo and Juliet, a play written by William Shakespeare

1916

Romeo and Juliet, first movie

1936

1957

1996

1968

1998

West Side Story, a musical by Leonard Bernstein

Romeo and Juliet, a movie directed by Franco Zefferilli

Romeo and Juliet, a movie directed by George Cukor

Romeo + Juliet, a movie directed by Baz Luhrman

Shakespeare in Love, a movie directed by John Madden