Friday

Today - we need to take a review quiz on sonnets, dramatic foils, elements of tragedy and tragic hero.
We also need to put some words of the day on the board, watch Act 1 Scene 5, and work on your Queen of Mab posters.

Unit Learning goal: Students will demonstrate an understanding of tragedy and Romeo and Juliet by evaluating the characters and their motivations in the play and writing a short persuasive essay using evidence from the text to discuss who is to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet.

Scale/Rubric relating to learning goal:
4 – The student can evaluate characters and their motivations and come up with multiple interpretations based on evidence of why many characters are to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet.
3 – The student can evaluate the characters and their motivations in the play and writing a short persuasive essay using evidence from the text to discuss who is to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet
2 – With some direction/help from the teacher the student can evaluate the characters and their motivations in the play and writing a short persuasive essay using evidence from the text to discuss who is to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet
1 – Even with help from the teacher the student is unable to evaluate the characters and their motivations in the play and writing a short persuasive essay using evidence from the text to discuss who is to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet


Objectives (smaller chunks of overall goal) and suggested time periods

Students will be able to

1) Understand the conventions of Shakespearean drama and Tragedy
2) Analyze Shakespearean language, including word play and blank verse.
3) Analyze characters, including character foils (dramatic foils) and the tragic hero
4) Identify and analyze soliloquies, asides, and allusions
5) Analyze cultural experiences reflected in works of world literature
6) Determine a theme and analyze its development
7) Understand and use parallel structure

Knowledge:

1) List the five elements of tragedy
2) List the five elements of a tragic hero
3) Define theme, plot, setting, foreshadow, oxymoron, soliloquy, personification, dramatic foil, metaphor, symbol, simile
4) Give the four elements of a sonnet and a brief description of traditional sonnet themes
5) Describe how sonnets are used in Romeo and Juliet
6) Define various vocabulary words from the play
7) List three things the prologue of the play does
     
Comprehension:

8) Identify a metaphor within a line of poetry
9) Identify the rhyme scheme of a English sonnet and break a sonnet into quatrains and couplets
10) Give a brief description of all the characters and their roles in the play
    11) Given a line of dialogue identify the speaker
    12) Outline the plot and break in up into exposition, inciting event,  
          rising action, climax, falling action and catastrophe (or resolution)
    13) Summarize each scene into a headline

Application

14) Demonstrate an understanding of a scene in a drawing
15) Demonstrate a relation of characters to contemporary times through a simulation called “TOO HOT FOR SHAKESPEARE: ROMEO AND JULIET LIVE ON THE JERRY SPRINGER SHOW”
16) Demonstrate an understanding of characters and acting techniques by writing out a script (including the lines, subtext, emotion or tone, and blocking) and acting out the scene from memory
17) Demonstrate an understanding of the play by writing journal entries and in-class writing assignments including a Dear Abbey Letter, interviews with citizens of Verona, Wedding Vows between Romeo and Juliet, personal responses, in-class presentations on characters.


Analysis

18) Write a persuasion paper on Romeo and Juliet.
19) In an essay compare and contrast a Shakespeare Comedy to a Shakespeare Tragedy.
20) In an essay discuss with evidence from the text who is responsible for the deaths of “the star-crossed” lovers


Synthesis

21) Write a sonnet