Romeo and Juliet Unit Resources

Brush Up Your Shakespeare! Shakespeare background information, terms, etc.

Slideshow
Fill-in-the-blank notes handout (without illustration of Globe theater)

 

Portfolio table of contents (most work and due dates for this unit) **PLEASE NOTE CORRECTIONS OF DUE-DATES-- including the portfolio final due date-- June 10th is a THURSDAY, it's due then, NOT Friday.**

Shakespearean Vocabulary

Handout (get answers from a classmate or Mrs. S)
Love/Hate dialogue homework assignment

 

Scene Summaries: Assignment guidelines  ******HERE ARE INSTRUCTIONS IF YOU NEED HELP WRITING/CITING QUOTES FOR YOUR SCENE SUMMARIES*****

 

Creative Responses:

Act I
Act II
Act III
Act IV
Act V

 

Close readings (passages from the play we close read, take notes on, talk to the text, etc.)

Prologue handout
"Good pilgrim" sonnet (Romeo and Juliet's first meeting) (The handout given in class has information about iambic pentameter on the back, but that handout is not available online-- get it from the class binder if you need it!)
Friar Lawrence's speech
Juliet's "Gallop apace" speech: this is only available in class; get it from the class binder.

 

Figurative Language and Other Literary Devices

Terms:
allusion
metaphor
simile
personification
hyperbole
pun
comic relief
oxymoron
paradox
irony (verbal, situational, dramatic)
imagery (especially light/dark, going with the theme of duality in the play)
poetic devices:
heroic couplet
iambic pentameter
stanza
quatrain
sonnet
Practice Handout (available only in class; please get it from the class binder)

 

Cast the Text!

There are other handouts available ONLY in class; see your portfolio table on contents to see what's what.

R&J EXAM STUDY GUIDE

 

Just for fun: Such Tweet Sorrow (Romeo and Juliet "acted out" on Twitter)