Romeo and Juliet
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Romeo and Juliet Study Guide
What is True Love?
Character Panel Discussion
Students will brainstorm a list of questions they would like to ask Romeo, Juliet, Friar Laurence, and the Nurse. These questions will be copied and distributed to the class. The class will be divided into groups, and each group will be given a character to prepare and will choose a person from their group to represent them on the panel. The whole class will ask questions of the panelists. Groups will be graded according to the preparation their representative demonstrated.

Journal
Students will respond to journal topics that relate themes from the play to their own lives.

Who is Most Responsible for Romeo and Juliet's Suicides?

Students will write an analysis essay in which they argue who is most responsible for Romeo and Juliet's Deaths. Students will use evidence from the text to support their thesis statement.

Sparknotes Romeo and Juliet

Journals

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STATE GOALS
1B5a Students will relate reading to prior knowledge and experience and make connections to related information.
1B5b Students will analyze the defining characteristics and structures of a Shakespearean tragedy and describe how genre affects the meaning and function of texts.
1C5b Analyze and defend an interpretation of text.
   
The goal of this unit is to examine Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and attempt to answer the question: "What is the nature of love?"