Week Seven, Spring Semester

Acts 3-5 of R&JEnglish 9 (revised)

Mrs. Solt

MONDAYNo School—Presidents Day

TUESDAYRecap of Act 3

Target for Tuesday

• Target: I will analyze how Shakespeare’s text structures creates tension and contributes to the climax of the play.– Conditions: I will read the first scene of Act 4 and

analyze the order of events on the building of suspense.– Criteria: completed study guides and participation in

discussion and exit questionsStandard: • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.5

Analyze how an author's choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.

Homework

• Discuss homework due Friday• What questions do you have?

Review Act 3

• What do you remember from Act 3, scene 1 (the fight scene)?

• What consequences have their been for the actions of the players?

Act 3 Activity

• Read the text on the handout and complete the activity.

• Watch the act on film.• Complete the study guide questions.

THURSDAYBlock Days: Remainder of the play

Target for Thursday

• Target: I will analyze how Shakespeare’s text structures creates tension and contributes to the climax of the play and whether this is love.– Conditions: I will read/view the remainder of the play

and analyze the impact of the order of events on the building of suspense.

– Criteria: completed study guides and participate in discussion and exit questions

Standard: • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.5

Analyze how an author's choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.

Act 3 Completed

• Watch what is left of Act 3 on video.• Complete the Act 3, scenes 3-5

activity/reading.• Complete the study guide questions.

Act 4

• Read and discuss Act 4, scene 1 together. • Watch Acts 4 & 5 on film (Zeffirelli version).• Complete the Acts 4 and 5 activity/reading.• Complete the study guide questions.

Insult/Flattery and Sonnet Contests

• Who still wants to earn badges in these?

Is It Love?

• What is love?• Are Romeo and Juliet in love?• What is the value of love to humans?• Why does Shakespeare rush their romance?

What is the message in the end?

Exit Questions

• What is Lord Capulet making preparations for? How does Juliet respond to him?

• What decision does Capulet then make about the timing of the wedding?

• How do Capulet’s plans contrast with the plans from the last scene?

• How do Capulet’s plans spell further doom and tragedy—destroying what hope may have been conveyed through the friar’s plans?

Exit Questions

• Explain how the following dialogue is dramatic irony:– Juliet: Nurse, will you go with me into my

closet,/To help me sort such needful ornaments/As you think fit to furnish me tomorrow?

– Lady Capulet: No, not till Thursday. There is time enough.

• What last minute doubts do we hear from Juliet prior to taking the sleeping potion?

Exit Questions

• What does Juliet place beside her bed?• Even though we know what the nurse will find

when she goes to waken Juliet, we still feel a sense of suspense at this point. Why?

• What do we know about Friar Lawrence that the other characters do not?

• How does Capulet personify death? Why is this fitting for this scene?

Exit Questions

• Are the musicians becoming angry with Peter, or are their insults meant in good humor?– Why is this comic scene included here?

• Do you think Shakespeare is portraying the Capulets as villains? Are they complex characters?

• What predictions do you have at this point?

FRIDAYFilm version of Act 4

Target for Friday

• Target: I will watch the Act 4 scenes in the film version, analyzing what is emphasized or absent compared to the play.– Conditions: I will watch and analyze Act 4 in the

Luhrmann film.– Criteria: completed study guides and participation

in discussion and exit questionsStandard: • CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.7

Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two different artistic mediums, including what is emphasized or absent in each treatment (e.g., Auden's "Musée des Beaux Arts" and Breughel's Landscape with the Fall of Icarus).

Homework

• Homework collected: figures of speech• Homework assigned: Instagram photos

Film

• Watch Acts 4 & 5 on film.

Badges

• Announcements and Badges

Exit Questions

• Discuss which parts of the play contain dramatic irony.

• How is iambic pentameter used in the play? When is it NOT used?

• What is a sonnet? Where is it used in the play?• What are prologues and how are they used in

the play?• What is a chorus and how is this used in the

play?

Fashion thee a good weekend!