English 9H
Thematic Unit: Love
Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare
Class Work & Homework Assignment Wk 4/25-5/2
Begin our new thematic unit: love – review the essential questions. Enduring Understanding: Love can be defined in many ways. A person can experience love for his or her parents, guardians, friends, and/or another boy or girl. There is also a difference between love, lust, and infatuation. Essential Questions: 1. What is love? 2. Is it possible to love someone and hurt them at the same time? 3. What extreme measures are people willing to take for love? Complete a scavenger hunt in computer lab Complete an anticipation guide Analyze the importance of the play's historical context Analyze sonnet form in poetry and apply it to the play's Prologue Begin William Shakespeare' tragic play Romeo and Juliet What is Love? Poster Project: With your group you will define and create a "visual" representation of love 1. Look up love's definition in the dictionary 2. Discuss and decide upon your group's definition of love 3. Create a "visual" representation of love: you may create a visual image, using images, a poem of your own creation, a paragraph, etc. Due Wed. 5/11/11 Complete study guide questions as we read and be prepared for a quiz after each act Act I Quiz - Mon. 5/9/11 |
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Class Work & Homework Assignment Wk 5/9/11
Continue our thematic unit: love – Read Act II Identify and analyze themes, characterization, and conflict. Discuss how impulsive behavior plays a part in "the star-crossed lovers" fate. Act II Quiz - Mon. 5/16/11 |
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Class Work & Homework Assignment Wk 5/16/11
Continue our thematic unit: love – Begin Act III Identify and analyze themes, characterization, and conflict. Discuss how impulsive behavior plays a part in "the star-crossed lovers" fate. Act II Quiz - Mon. 5/16/11 |
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Class Work & Homework Assignment Wk 5/23/11
Continue our thematic unit: love – Watch film, identify dramatic structural elements, and finish play. Identify and analyze themes, characterization, and conflict. Discuss how impulsive behavior plays a part in "the star-crossed lovers" fate. Identify dramatic structural elements using Freytag's Pyramid. HW: Identify events in play for exposition, rising action with exciting force, and climax Act III Quiz - Tues. 5/31/11 Facebook Page Choose a main character from the tragic play: Romeo, Juliet, Tybalt, Mercutio, Benvolio, Paris, Nurse, Friar, etc. and create a Facebook page for him/her. Choose a time frame from the play and create the page with specific events from that period. You must include at least three friends and three postings to your Wall. The upper right-hand corner of the page is your status. Be creative and enjoy! :) Facebook Page Due Tues. 5/31/11 |
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