Romeo and Juliet Packet
Table of Contents
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Essential Questions for Unit: Opinionnaire about Love …………………………………………2
Character Chart for the play Romeo and Juliet…………………………………………………...3
Act I Scene 1-3: ShakeBook: Outdated Language in Modern Context…………………………..5
Act I Scene 4-5: Cause and Effect Chart…………………………………………………………6
Act II Scene 1-3: Translating Passages into Modern Language………………………………….7
Act II Scene 4-6: Reading Comprehension Questions……………………………………………8
Intermission Activity……………………………………………………………………….……..9
Act III Scene 1: Reading Comprehension Questions…………………………………………….10
Act III Scene 2-3: If YOU were Juliet: Appropriate and Inappropriate Responses to Grief….....11
Act III Scene 4-5: Dear Juliet: A Letter From A Concerned Father………………………..……12
Act IV Scene 1-5: Good Intentions and Desperate Measures…………………………………....13
Act V Scene 1-3: Opinionnaire about Love: Did your opinions change? …………………...…..14
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Essential Questions for Romeo and Juliet:
1.
2.
3.
4.
What is love?
Is love stronger than hate?
Can we help who we fall in love with?
Can love really conquer all?
Directions: Fill out the below chart based on your opinions and beliefs about the statement
given. Put a check mark or X in the box that applies to you:
Statement
Strongly Agree
Agree
Teenagers do not
understand what
love is.
Not everyone can
experience love.
People who say
they would die
for love are
lying.
Love can
conquer all
negative things.
Love is stronger
than hate.
If you love
someone you
should let them
go.
Love is blind. It
cannot see race,
gender or
religion.
You can love
someone despite
their flaws
You can change
who you are to
make a
relationship
better
Being in love is
better than
falling in love
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Disagree
Strongly
Disagree
Character Chart:
Directions: below you will find a chart of characters. On the side of the chart labeled “Character
Description” enter information about that character that is important to the play:
Character
Romeo Montague
Character Description
Juliet Capulet
Benvolio
Mercutio
Tybalt
Prince Escalus
Paris
Nurse
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Friar Laurence
Lord and Lady Capulet
Lord and Lady Montague
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Act I Scene 1-3
ShakeBook: Outdated Language in a Modern Context
In the boxes below you will find some words and phrases from Shakespeare’s time that have
been translated into modern language:
Shakespearean Word
Give leave
Thou knowest
Yea
Wilt thou not
Hold thy peace
Knaves
Hither
Modern Translation
Shakespearean Word
leave us
you know
indeed
won’t you
stop/be quiet
fools
here
Thou’s
Faith
Quoth
I warrant
Forswear
Hath
Sirrah
Modern Translation
you should
believe me
said
I swear
deny
has
sir
Directions: Create classroom appropriate modern day social media post using the above words
correctly.
Facebook post:
Twitter post:
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Act I Scene 4-5
Cause and Effect Charts
Directions: In the boxes on the right you will see significant events from Scenes 4-5. You need to
write the effect that event caused, in the box to the left.
Romeo decides to go to the Capulet
party
Romeo sees Juliet
Tybalt recognizes Romeo at the
party
Romeo and Juliet meet
Juliet and Romeo learn their families
are enemies
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Act II Scene 1-3
Translating Passages into Modern Language
Directions: take the following passages from the play and translate them into modern language.
Remember, the goal is not to translate the passage word by word, but rather interpret the general
meaning.
Original Passage
Can I go forward when my heart is here?
Turn back, dull earth, and find thy center out.
Your Translation
The brightness of her cheek would shame those
stars as daylight doth a lamp;
O Romeo, Romeo wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name! Or if
thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, and I will
no longer be a Capulet
I take thee at thee at thy word. Call me but
love, and I’ll be new baptized.
Do not swear at all; or if thou wilt, swear by
thy gracious self, and I’ll believe thee.
What early tongues so sweet saluteth me?
Young son, it argues a distempered head so
soon to bid good morrow to thy bed
In one respect I’ll thy assistant be; for this
alliance may so happy prove to turn your
households’ rancor to pure love
Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast
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Act II Scene 4-6
Reading Comprehension Questions
Directions: Answer the following questions about scenes 4-6 from Act II of the play.
1. Benvolio informs Mercutio that Tybalt is looking for Romeo. What does Benvolio say
Tybalt wants?
2. What does Romeo tell the Nurse to tell Juliet? What is his plan to meet Juliet and secretly
be married?
3. In Scene 5, what is Juliet so anxious about?
4. What takes the Nurse so long to explain to Juliet what Romeo has planned for them?
5. What does the Nurse say she has to fetch while Juliet prepares to leave?
6. In Scene 6, Friar Laurence says “These violent delights have violent ends.” How does
this foreshadow what might happen in the next part of the play?
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Intermission Activity
Directions: Imagine you are a movie producer and you have been asked to recreate a modern
Romeo and Juliet. You need a new setting, young and attractive actors and the beginnings of a
script. Then you will create a flyer for the movie using smore.com.
Where will you set your adaptation of Romeo and Juliet? Why did you choose this location?
Who will you cast to play the following characters?
Romeo:
Tybalt:
Juliet:
The Nurse:
Benvolio:
Friar Laurence:
Mercutio:
Paris:
Write a synopsis (summary) of your new Romeo and Juliet adaptation. Your synopsis should be
three to five sentences long:
Now, check your Gaggle email to see an example of a new Romeo and Juliet movie flyer.
Using smore.com, create an account and make a flyer using the above information to promote
your new movie.
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Act III Scene 1
Reading Comprehension Questions
Directions: Answer the following questions about Scene 1 from Act III
1. Why does Romeo refuse to fight Tybalt?
2. Why does Tybalt not understand Romeo when Romeo talks to Tybalt as if they are
family?
3. The character of Tybalt represents hate in this story. In the case of Tybalt, would Romeo
and Juliet’s love be enough to end Tybalt’s hate of Romeo and all Montagues? Explain.
4. Why is Mercutio’s death important to the Prince?
5. At the end of this scene, the Capulet’s have lost Tybalt, Romeo is banished from the
Montague’s and the Prince has lost Mercutio. Predict how you think these families will
recover from their loss:
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Act III Scene 2-3
If YOU were Juliet: Appropriate and Inappropriate Responses to Grief
Directions: Juliet has found out that Romeo has killed her cousin Tybalt and has been banished
from Verona. We talked about in class how Juliet’s response is complicated. Look at the chart
below. To the right you will find the stages of Juliet’s reaction to the news. In the left, you need
to write if you think her response was appropriate or inappropriate and state why you think it was
an appropriate or inappropriate response in the next box:
Juliet’s Response
Appropriate or
Inappropriate
Why?
My husband has killed my
beloved cousin Tybalt. My
husband is a monster.
My husband has killed my
beloved cousin Tybalt, but
Tybalt is a hot-head and
probably would have killed
Romeo if Romeo hadn’t killed
him first. Tybalt is a monster.
Romeo is banished and Tybalt
is dead. Since Romeo is
banished he might as well be
dead to me.
How dare the Nurse say bad
things about my man Romeo.
Only I can be mad at him and
really, I was wrong to be mad
at him. He is perfect.
At the end of Scene II, the Nurse assures Juliet that she will find Romeo and bring him to see
Juliet. In Scene III, the Friar and the Nurse convince Romeo to see Juliet and leave Verona until
the Friar can right the wrongs. Would you say that at this point in the story, the characters would
believe that love can conquer all? Why or why not and explain using details from the text.
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Act III Scene 4-5
Dear Juliet: A Letter From A Concerned Father
Lord Capulet has a weird reaction to Tybalt’s death. He decides it is time for Juliet to get
married. In the chart below, write Capulet’s views on Paris marrying his daughter before and
after Tybalt’s death:
Lord Capulet’s View on Juliet Being
Married Before Tybalt’s Death
Lord Capulet’s View on Juliet Being
Married After Tybalt’s Death
Based on Lord Capulet’s response to Juliet marrying Paris after Tybalt’s death, imagine that you
are Lord Capulet and you have found out that your daughter is married to Romeo (Tybalt’s
murderer) and that she refuses to leave Romeo for Paris. How would he feel? Write a letter to
Juliet explaining how you, as Lord Capulet would feel about this:
Dear Juliet,
Love,
Your Father, Lord Capulet
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Act IV Scene 1-5
Good Intentions and Desperate Measures
Directions: In this Act, characters like Friar Laurence have good intentions to help Juliet and
Romeo; however, sometimes good intentions do not equal the end results we want. We have also
seen characters like Juliet take desperate measures to be with the ones they love.
Do you think there are times when our good intentions to help people actually have the adverse
or opposite effects. Do you believe Friar Laurence would have tried to help Romeo and Juliet so
much if he had any doubts at all that his help would actually harm the pair of star-crossed lovers?
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Act V Scene 1-3: Opnionnaire about Love: Has you opinion changed?
Directions: below you will find the exact same opinionnaire that we took before we read the
play. Read the statements and mark the answers that apply best to your opinion on the statement:
Statement
Strongly Agree
Agree
Disagree
Strongly
Disagree
Teenagers do not
understand what
love is.
Not everyone can
experience love.
People who say
they would die
for love are
lying.
Love can
conquer all
negative things.
Love is stronger
than hate.
If you love
someone you
should let them
go.
Love is blind. It
cannot see race,
gender or
religion.
You can love
someone despite
their flaws
You can change
who you are to
make a
relationship
better
Being in love is
better than
falling in love
Has your opinion on any of the above statements changed because of reading the play and
discussing the essential questions? Why or why not?
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