ROMEO AND JULIET: TWO HOUSES DIVIDED

INSTRUCTIONAL SEQUENCE
(Two Houses Divided)

1. Students are divided into competing teams: The Battle of Verona
The classroom is physically set up with 3 neighborhoods (U shaped seating arrangement). Various team challenges are set each week. Each team supplies respective readers, i.e. the Capulets supply a Juliet, Nurse, etc.

a) Frequent team "Challenges" simulate the conflicts in Verona. and point opportunities (including citizenship) for Extra Credit
b) Montagues assign and assume all Montague parts, same with Capulets and Peacemakers
c) Citizenship disruptions as well as bathroom/water privileges are regarded as town problems and results in "traffic tickets" (demerits from Extra Credit Points)
2. Every student has a role: List of Roles

2. Sequential vocabulary begun: daily voc. in notebooks

Friday tests on vocabulary and RJ as appropriate
Team Challenge: Team receiving best average on voc. test for week
Team members prepare each other

3. History

1. William Shakewspeare: A Life of Drama (Media Center video)
2. Mrs. Micheel's overheads
3. Class reading, with expression, of Meet Bill

Check these sites
Website
Shake Timeline
Summary Chart of Life
Shake Life Quiz - Copy score and give to Q.

4. Act I:

Read Act I out loud in class - Homework: practice part out loud
 5. Make Mask: homework
 6. See Acts I-II, 1968 version

 7. Masquerade Ball:

Masks: Students wear masks and bring food.
Team Challenge: Which team provides the best 15 minute party
8. Self-made test competition: students create their own voc. test for possible use in classroom. Rough draft in Eng., typed draft in CA.
Person whose test is chosen for entire class test gets 10 individual bonus points. Students quiz each other with their tests in preparation. Team Challenge: team with highest voc. test average wins 10 points, second place gets 7, etc.

9. Act II re-write in contemporary words and slang, including conflict and actions with Shakepeare meaning and themes

Teams assign writing each scene, type it up in Computer Ap. Each team's Act II script is compiled in copyroom so each team-member has a copy. Two days to practice and block out. Then performance. One class observes and rates each team in other class. Academy Awards are announced following day. Team Challenge: Team winning most points gets 10 extra credit team points. Second place gets 7 and third place gets 5.

 10. Daily Grammar:

(sentences chosen from their earlier work on goals and lines
from their poetry) added as a weekly team challenge
DG #1 and 2, DG # 3 and 4,
 11. Act III: continuing dramatic reading with teams keeping respective parts
 12. Teams of 4 re-enact fight scene as a skit. (We did this on child-to-work-day so few here and time to prepare and present all in one day)
 13. Act IV: continuing dramatic reading with teams keeping respective parts - students change Act IV and act out Juliet honestly telling Father why she won't marry Paris.
 14. Character collage: students pick one character and depict that character with magazine pictures, words and letters. All collages with A's posted on walls and all classes vote on favorite Juliet, Romeo, Mercutio, Nurse, etc. Extra Credit to winners.
 15. See Acts III-IV, 1968 version
 16. Read Acts V-VI: continuing dramatic reading with teams keeping respective parts
 17. See new version of RJ

18. Thesis paper on Shakespeare's message in RJ

a) Ashley Swanson's paper

 

Additional Options
 1. English Renaissance Historical Fiction Newspaper.

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ENGLISH
RENAISSANCE NEWSPAPER
(Ogburn)
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2. Write children's book including pictures from Internet, scanned personal art and ClipArt

Sequence and Planning Worksheets
Rubric
Image Directions
Master Image Chart
MLA Requirements

 Go to Chinook Elementary School
and read self-made book to student
 3. Make up an image chart of RJ characters.

 

 APPROVED RJ PHOTO SITES

(Lundin)

 Example of
RJ image charts.

4. Verona Times Newspaper

Editorial

 



Image Citation: Two Houses Divided. Naomi. "Gallery." William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Feb 1997. 20th Century Fox. 11 Ap. 2000 <http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/8591/gallery.htm>. |

Sites that help

1. Chill with Will On Shakespeare, info in Spanish, etc.