Unit 3 Romeo and Juliet wk 3

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Unit 3 Romeo and Juliet 

week 3

Unit 3 : Romeo and Juliet 

         Global context: orientation in space and time

         Key concept: time, place and space

        

         Related concept: empathy and meaning

statement of inquiry

Feeling empathy through universal themes 

in existing work

leads to 

your own interpretation and a new meaning of the existing work. 

Language Aqcuisition

Period 3

Arts

Period 4 

&

You create your own work with 

a new interpretation and new meaning. 

=

Interdisciplinary Unit: 

The structure of a play

Explain what you see in two English sentences:

Quiz: 

Which of these statements are true? 

Can you correct the false statements?

"In Shakespeare’s time…"

Say..

true or false:

'women had very few rights and were considered the property of men'

1. true
2. false

true or false:

'mothers got to choose husbands for their daughters.'

1. true
2. false

true or false:

'… it was important to be in love with someone if you were going to marry them.'

1. true
2. false

'… women did not have any say in whom they married – a marriage was a business deal between the groom and the father of the bride.'

1. true
2. false

true or false:

'… a woman had to be 16 before she was married.'

1. true
2. false

Goal today

• To understand the key plot points and characters from Act 1, scenes 3 and 4. 
• To understand the motivation of the characters of Act 1, scenes 3 and 4.

Succes Criteria

• To make notes on key characters. 

Act 1 - Scene 2

Meet the characters

In this lesson we will meet a few new characters:

Act 1 - scene 2

Match making

In Act I, Scene 2, we see Capulet talking with Paris, a nobleman.

 

1. Who are the two men discussing?

2. What does Paris want?

3. What does Capulet think of this idea?

4. How old is Juliet?

Act 1 - scene 3

Breaking the news

Capulet sends his wife to talk to Juliet about

Paris’ plan. Paris is coming to a 

party at their house, and Juliet needs 

to be ready to meet Paris.

Did you read a conversation between Nurse, Juliet

 and Lady Capulat in scene 3?

nosweatshakespeare.com

The structure of a play

Act 1 - scene 4

Cheer up Romeo

We meet a new character in the play:

Mercutio, Romeo's friend.

Read the part where Mercutio and Romeo talk. 

It's when Romeo, Benvolio and Mercutio are preparing to go to the Capulet party. 

Answer these questions:

1. What is Romeo's mood?

2. How does Mercutio respond to Romeo?

nosweatshakespeare.com

summary of act 1, scene 4

1. create a one slide summary (ppt) of scene 4
2. choose important images, words and sentences to show what the scene is about
3. upload you slide in Toddle
4. present your slide to you classmates in one or two minutes in English

Goal today

• To understand the key plot points and characters from Act 1, scenes 3 and 4. 
• To understand the motivation of the characters of Act 1, scene s 3 and 4.

Succes Criteria

 

• To make notes on key characters. 

I understand the key plot points of Act 1, scenes 3 and 4:

010

I know the characters of scenes 3 and 4 (Act 1):

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Act 1 sticky note assignment

Write a summary for Act 1 

What are the key plot points?

Who are the key characters?

SAVE YOUR STICKY NOTE!

Homework read Act 1, scene 5

Go to this website to read the scene:

https://nosweatshakespeare.com/plays/modern-romeo-juliet/act-1-scene-5/  

Then, go online and look for a nice video, or painting, or sculpture, or photograph or a dance that is about this scene. 

Make sure you save the link(image), because we will upload this on Toddle in class.

How was today's class connected to learning?

thinking

communication

research

social

self-management