Romeo and Juliet: Evaluation
We will be reading and working with this play over the next several weeks. Here is how you will be evaluated:
Class mark
Includes participation in readings/discussions/taking notes/writing for discussion: 20 points.
Homework
There are worksheets for every scene. I will check periodically to see that you have them completed. I will not give warnings of the checks: 20 points.
Theatre Project
We are going to work in small groups to stage Act 4. More info to follow: 20 points.
Tests
There are two. (Acts 1­3, then a final test). 20 points. (10 points each)
Title: Apr 21­10:18 AM (1 of 3)
The Prologue
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 star­cross'd lovers take their life,
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Doth with their death bury their parents' strife.
The fearful passage of their death­mark'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.
Title: Apr 21­10:18 AM (2 of 3)
Romeo and Juliet : The Prologue
The prologue was a convention in Elizabethan plays. In Latin, it literally means "the talking that comes before." Many plays had a Chorus as well. What would its functions be? In this prologue:
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To whom are we introduced?
Where is the play taking place?
When does it take place?
How long is the play intended to be?
What does it tell us about the story?
This prologue is in sonnet form. What do you know about the sonnet?
Created in _______, in the _______________.
Number of lines?___
Rhyme scheme? ____
Rhythm pattern? ________ ____________
Structure/tone?
Title: Apr 20­10:39 AM (3 of 3)