READING JOURNAL
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KWL CHART
What I’ve learnt..
What I know..
What I want to know..
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Shakespeare Facts
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Compare features in a play to a narrative
Play script features
Narrative features
Acts and Scenes
chapters
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Read the prologue and identify features of a
sonnet
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-cross'd lovers take their life;
Whole misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents' strife.
The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,
And the continuance of their parents' rage,
Which, but their children's end, nought 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.
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Rhyming
words
Retrieve information from the prologue
1. Where is the story of of R & J set? Which
country is this?
2.What was the main reason for Romeo and
Juliet being forced apart?
3.How are the couple described?
4.What happened to the parents when the
couple died?
5.What did the couple try to do for their
families?
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As a group, read and recite the prologue using
intonation, expression and tone
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-cross'd lovers take their life;
Whole misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents' strife.
The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,
And the continuance of their parents' rage,
Which, but their children's end, nought 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.
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Collect & create similes used to describe
Juliet’s beauty in Act I
Simile
What image is created?
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of
night
As a rich jewel in an Ethiop’s ear
her lips are … as…
her skin is as … as...
her smile is … like …
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Collect & create metaphors to describe
Romeo in Act I
Metaphor
What image is created?
My lips, two blushing pilgrims
How their hearts must be beating
how their eyes are moving,
the way they might speak.
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Practise writing rhyming couplets
The grey-eyed morn smiles on the
frowning night,
Chequering the eastern clouds with
streaks of ______________;
Now, ere the sun advance his burning
eye,
The day to cheer, and night’s dank
dew to ______________;
For nought so vile, that on the earth
doth live,
But to the earth some special good
doth ______________
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Write a love poem about R&J using similes &
metaphors using the sonnet structure,
rhyming words and pentameters
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Read and collect Shakespearean
words/phrases that you like
Phrase
Meaning
What's in a name? That
which we call a rose
By any other word would
smell as sweet.
O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore
art thou Romeo?
A plague o' both your houses!
They have made worms' meat
of me!
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I like this phrase because it
makes me picture...
What have you learnt about the character of
Romeo from what he says
& his actions?
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What have you learnt about the character of
Juliet from what she says
& her actions?
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How does the villainous character of Tybalt
compare to other villains in texts you have
read?
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Themes in Romeo & Juliet
... are the fundamental and often universal ideas explored
in a literary work.
Theme
What Shakespeare
thinks about it
Love
Violence/feud
Social pressures
Fate
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What I understand
about the theme..
Imagine you are Romeo or Juliet?
How would you feel if your parents prevented
you from being with someone you
liked/loved?
Write a letter to your parents persuading
them to let you be with Romeo/Juliet giving
reasons for your choice and using evidence
from the text.
Use features of a letter to organise your letter.
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Write a blurb for the story of Romeo and
Juliet that persuades someone to read it and
learn something from it...
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What do you think Shakespeare thought about love and
family feuds?
Explain your ideas.
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My thoughts about the story of Romeo and
Juliet?
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