V5 P2 W6 Romeo and Juliet II

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 5

learning goals

I know the basic plot of Romeo and Juliet

I can indicate the themes in Romeo and Juliet

Explain this joke

Do some research into 

Romeo and Juliet.

            you'll answer some questions 

about the plot afterwards.

source tip: sparknotes.com

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.

The Montagues and the Capulets hate each other so much that they ...

1. don't speak to each other.
2. fight whenever they meet.
3. play horrible tricks on each other.

The Capulets organise a party to ...

1. introduce their daughter to a possible husband.
2. introduce Juliet to the Montagues
3. celebrate Juliet's fourteenth birthday.

Romeo and his friends ...

1. watch the party from a safe distance.
2. plan to cause trouble at the party.
3. go to the party in disguise.

Romeo and Juliet go to a priest called Friar Lawrence to ...

1. get advice.
2. ask him to persuade their families to make peace.
3. get married.

Romeo kills Tybalt because ...

1. Tybalt wants to stop him seeing Juliet.
2. Tybalt is planning to kill Romeo.
3. Tybalt kills Romeo's best friend.

Friar Lawrence says he will help Juliet by ...

1. helping her to escape with Romeo.
2. giving her a drug to make people think she's dead.
3. talking to her parents.

The plan goes wrong because ...

1. Romeo doesn't get Friar Lawrence's message.
2. the drug is too strong.
3. Juliet's family don't believe that she is dead

In the end, the Montagues and the Capulets ...

1. are united by their loss and make peace.
2. continue fighting until they are all dead.
3. think the tragedy is Friar Lawrence’s fault.

example questions

How could the deaths in this play have been prevented?

Do you think the friar made good choices?

Would you make the same choices as Romeo or Juliet did?