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British Library: Teaching Resources: Putting Romeo and Juliet in Context: A Summary of Sources
This summary of sources is a quick and easy way to explore the contexts for Romeo and Juliet - from young love in Shakespeare's day to sonnets and sleeping potions, and from Brooke's 1562 poem on Romeus and Juliet to a 21st-century...
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The Kennedy Center: Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: Star Cross'd and Starry Eyed
From the opening lines of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the audience knows what lies in store for the tragedy's title teens: that these two "star-crossed lovers" are doomed to die. By the end of the play, an "ancient grudge"...
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Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 9: Romeo and Juliet
Students explore how patterns and contrasts in language (diction, imagery, figurative language) reveal central ideas in texts and develop various motifs (light vs. dark, dreams vs. reality, high vs. low, etc.) in Romeo and Juliet. They...
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Romeo and Juliet: Compare to Film Adaptations
Publish your final work to express understanding of Romeo and Juliet compared to film adaptations.
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Romeo and Juliet: Draft an Essay
Draft the culminating task essay including the thesis statement. Review the prompt to check your work.
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Romeo and Juliet: Prepare to Write
Prepare to write by previewing the culminating task for Romeo and Julie to help understand the task.
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Romeo and Juliet: Compare to Film Adaptation
View minutes 1:39 to 1:49 from Romeo and Juliet (Luhrmann) to determine the details were changed, added, or removed from this adaptation of the scene.
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Romeo and Juliet: Compare to Film Adaptation
View minutes 1:59 to 2:12 from Romeo and Juliet (Zeffirelli) to determine what details were changed, added, or removed from this adaptation of the scene.
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Romeo and Juliet: Act Iv
With a partner, review Act IV from Romeo and Juliet. Use the text theme understanding tool to determine and analyze the meaning of the text.
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Romeo and Juliet: Act Iii
React to Act III, scene 3 from Romeo and Juliet by exploring how Romeo acted in Act III, scene 3 when he sought counsel from the Friar?
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Romeo and Juliet: Themes
Students read Act 4 and 5 of Romeo and Juliet and analyze how the author continues to develop themes within the play.
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Romeo and Juliet: Act Iii, Scene 4
Listen to Act III, scene 4 from Romeo and Juliet using Romeo and Juliet: The Fully Dramatized Audio Edition to establish our understanding.
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Romeo and Juliet: Compare to Film Adaptation
View minutes 0:57 to 1:13 from Romeo and Juliet (Luhrmann) and determine what details were changed, added, or removed from this adaptation of the scene.
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Romeo and Juliet: Prepare to Write
Ninth graders prepare to write, develop, and publish the culminating task essay. This essay will compare and contrast the way a theme is developed in the play Romeo and Juliet and one of three film versions of the play--Romeo and Juliet...
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Romeo and Juliet: Review Your Claims
Review your claims from the prompt: determine a theme that is developed in the last scene of Romeo and Juliet. Compare and contrast the way that theme is developed in the text and how that theme is developed in the film.
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Romeo and Juliet: Compare Adaptations
Explore how adaptations or reproductions of Romeo and Juliet enhance or detract from the theme of a text.
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Romeo and Juliet: Compare Adaptations
How can adaptations or reproductions enhance or detract from the theme of a text?
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Romeo and Juliet: Setting
Students build their knowledge of a text's setting by reading background information and answering questions to prepare to read Romeo and Juliet.
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Romeo and Juliet: Act Iii
Ninth graders will read Act 3 of Romeo and Juliet. They will also answer questions in order to analyze how Shakespeare uses characters, conflict, pacing, and images to develop themes in the play.
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Romeo and Juliet: Act Ii, Scene 4
Students react to Act II, scene 4 from Romeo and Juliet and explore what events develop the plot.
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Romeo and Juliet: Character Development
Students read Act II, scene 3 from Romeo and Juliet and explore how Shakespeare develops Friar Lawrence's characteristics.
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Romeo and Juliet: Act Ii, Scene 2: Comparison
Students compare Romeo and Juliet: Act II, Scene 2 from three different versions of the story.
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Romeo and Juliet: Theme
Students view minutes 0:35 to 0:45 from Romeo and Juliet (Luhrmann) and explore the director's choices to develop themes within the film.
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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Romeo and Juliet: Theme
Students view minutes 0:40 to 0:52 from Romeo and Juliet (Zeffirelli) and explore the director's choices to develop themes within the film.