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Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Romeo and Juliet: Review a Writing Prompt

For Students 9th
Review a writing prompt with a partner, and ask questions to further your understanding.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Teenage Brain: Impact on Behavior

For Students 9th Standards
Build your knowledge of the teen brain and its impact on behavior by demonstrating your level of agreement. This will help you prepare to read "The Teen Brain: Still Under Construction."
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Teenage Brain

For Teachers 9th Standards
Ninth graders read National Geographic's "Teenage Brains" by David Dobbs and various informational texts about the development of the teenage brain to understand the factors that ultimately dictate teens' decision-making and behavior.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Romeo and Juliet: Discussions

For Students 9th
Engage in a whole-class discussion to demonstrate your understanding of adaptations of Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Review Claims From the Teen Brain: Still Under Construction

For Students 9th
We will answer questions about the information in the first section from "The Teen Brain: Still Under Construction" to deepen our understanding. Review claims from chart paper as a class.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Teenage Brain: Effect on Teen Behavior

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders read three informational texts to gain an understanding of how adolescent brain development influences teen behavior.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Romeo and Juliet: Prepare to Write

For Students 9th Standards
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

For Students 9th Standards
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 Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Romeo and Juliet: Compare to Film Adaptation

For Students 9th Standards
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 Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Romeo and Juliet: Determining Dramatic Irony

For Students 9th Standards
Read lines 1 - 175 of Act V, scene 3 from Romeo and Juliet together to determine how dramatic irony is used to develop the tragic tone of this play?
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Romeo and Juliet: Act Iv

For Students 9th
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 Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Romeo and Juliet: Act Iii

For Students 9th
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 Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Romeo and Juliet: Themes

For Teachers 9th Standards
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 Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Romeo and Juliet: Revise Content

For Students 9th
Revise your content and ideas to ensure your work is appropriate to the task, purpose, and audience.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Romeo and Juliet: Exploring Conflicts

For Students 9th
Answer questions about the relationships among the details in Romeo and Juliet to understand how the conflicts in the play relate to the feud between the Montagues and the Capulets.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Romeo and Juliet: Act Iii, Scene 4

For Students 9th
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 Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Romeo and Juliet: Act Iii, Scene 2

For Students 9th
Reread lines 79 - 91 of Act III, scene 2 from Romeo and Juliet independently. During the reading, annotate the text for the pairs of images that Juliet uses in these lines.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Romeo and Juliet: Compare to Film Adaptation

For Students 9th Standards
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 Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Romeo and Juliet: Act Iii, Scene 1

For Students 9th
Develop your response to the question to determine and analyze the meaning of Act III, scene 1 from Romeo and Juliet. Explore how Lady Capulet, Montague, and the Prince are used to develop a theme about hate or revenge.
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Lesson Plan
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Romeo and Juliet: Prepare to Write

For Teachers 9th
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 Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Romeo and Juliet: Review Your Claims

For Students 9th
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 Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Romeo and Juliet: William Shakespeare

For Students 9th
Watch "William Shakespeare- Mini Biography" to learn details about Shakespeare.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Romeo and Juliet: Compare Adaptations

For Teachers 9th
Explore how adaptations or reproductions of Romeo and Juliet enhance or detract from the theme of a text.
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Lesson Plan
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Romeo and Juliet: Compare Adaptations

For Students 9th Standards
How can adaptations or reproductions enhance or detract from the theme of a text?