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Romeo & Juliet
What do you know about them?
What springs to mind?
Words, thoughts, songs, anything?

"My only love comes from my only hate."
Who says this, and why? What does it mean?

From forth the fatal loins of these two foes.
Which answer is a synonym for foe?

1. vow
2. friend
3. lover
4. enemy

"A pair of star-crossed lovers"
What does it mean when something is written in the stars?

00:27

Women were allowed to act in Shakespeare's time

1. True
2. False

00:54

When was Shakespeare born?

1. 1465
2. 1564
3. 1546
4. 1654

01:26

This is where we learn about the setting and the main characters are introduced

1. Climax
2. Exposition
3. Resolution
4. Raising action

02:29

When the story is at it's most exciting and the battle between the protagonist and antagonist is decided

1. Rising action
2. Climax
3. Falling action

02:59

What is the right order?

1. Denouement, raising action, exposition, climax, falling action
2. exposition, raising action, climax, falling action, denouement
3. Exposition, climax, falling action, raising action, denouement

03:24

"And they live happily ever after"

1. Falling action
2. Denouement
3. Exposition

Presentation of plot

What is "plot"?

What is 'Exposition'?

1. The beginning of the story
2. When the story is at it's most exciting
3. When the main problem has been solved

When the story is at it's most exciting and the battle between the protagonist and antagonist is decided

1. Rising action
2. Climax
3. Falling action

"And they live happily ever after"

1. Falling action
2. Denouement
3. Exposition

What is the right order?

1. Denouement, raising action, exposition, climax, falling action
2. exposition, raising action, climax, falling action, denouement
3. Exposition, climax, falling action, raising action, denouement

WHO IS WHO?
Name as many characters you know from Romeo and Juliet

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Homework
Create your own Romeo and Juliet family tree, take a picture to send in your answer.

https://www.sparknotes.com/nofear/shakespeare/romeojuliet/page_2/ 

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Where is the story set?
What evidence do you have from the Prologue? Where did you find this information?

What line tells us already how the story will end? Cite the first two words

Who will the play be about according to the prologue?

1. Romeo and Juliet
2. two households
3. a pair of lovers
4. children

What will the duration of the play be?
What evidence do you have from the prologue?

What is the rhymesceme?

1. Two households, both alike in dignity,
   
2. In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
   
3. From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
   
4. Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
   
5. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
   
6. A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
   
7. Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
   
8. Do with their death bury their parents' strife.
   

9. The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,

10. and the continuance of their parents' rage,

11. Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,

12. is now the two hours' traffic of our stage.

13. The which if you with patient ears attend,

14. What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.