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If you've got lessons plans, activities, or other ideas you'd like to contribute, we'd love to hear from you. More Find the latest in professional publications, learn new techniques and strategies, and find out how you can connect with other literacy professionals. More Teacher Resources by Grade Your students can save their work with Student Interactives. More Home › Classroom Resources › Lesson Plans Lesson Plan Overview Featured Resources From Theory to Practice This lesson invites students to use their understanding of modern experiences with digital technologies to make active meaning of an older text, such as Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, by asking students to create their own modern interpretation of specific events from the drama.
Back to top Modern-Day Interpretation Projects: This handout outlines a variety of projects students can do in response to Romeo and Juliet. Tragic Love: Introducing Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. ReadWriteThink couldn't publish all of this great content without literacy experts to write and review for us.
If you've got lessons plans, activities, or other ideas you'd like to contribute, we'd love to hear from you. More Find the latest in professional publications, learn new techniques and strategies, and find out how you can connect with other literacy professionals. More Teacher Resources by Grade Your students can save their work with Student Interactives. More Home › Classroom Resources › Lesson Plans Lesson Plan Overview Featured Resources. Here is a creative idea for developing Romeo and Juliet personalized license plates. Mr. Lettiere's English 9. Pmwiki.php?n=Novels. To view the details of an annotation, use the '+' sign to expand an entry.
If an entry is in boldface, this indicates it is also a link; clicking on those words will open the associated link for your view. After Reading Activity • Romeo and Juliet in Film Common Core Requirement • Grade 8 • Reading Standards for Literature • 7. Analyze the extent to which a filmed or live production of a story or drama stays faithful to or departs from the text or script, evaluating the choices made by the director or actors. Materials Needed • Zeffirelli film adaptation (1968) • Luhrman film adaptation (1996) • Worksheet (detailed below) Activity • After quickly reviewing the summary of Romeo and Juliet, pass out a worksheet that has three columns—one for Shakespeare’s time and one for Luhrman’s adaptation.
McBride, Emily. After Reading Activity • Romeo and Juliet Student Adaptations Previous Lesson • Romeo and Juliet in film—or, discuss adaptations with students. McBride, Emily. McBride, Emily. Mixing it up with Romeo and Juliet. March 2005 Tanya Smith, Liberty High School, Brentwood, California.
Plays/Scenes Covered Romeo and Juliet, as a review at the end of the play. This lesson may also be adapted for use with any play. What's On for Today and Why Having students create a soundtrack for the play, by picking one song to represent each scene, can help them make personal connections to the plot as well as get them motivated to more fully understand the language.
This lesson may be used as a review at the end of reading the play, or students may work on the soundtrack as they read. What You Need Folger edition of Romeo and Juliet Available in Folger print edition and Folger Digital Texts Soundtrack Pre-planning Worksheet and You may wish to provide 9.5 by 4.25 pieces of paper for students to make a CD wrapper. Students may wish to consult online sources such as www.anysonglyrics.com to search song lyrics by word or theme. Documents: Soundtrack Pre-Planning Worksheet What To Do. "Here's much to do with hate, but more with love": The Prologue in <I>Romeo and Juliet</I> October 2004 Heidi Beehler teaches English at Horace Greeley High School in Chappaqua, NY.
Plays/Scenes CoveredRomeo and Juliet What's On for Today and Why Part of the fun of teaching Romeo and Juliet is letting students see how the play is about much more than romantic love. In this lesson, students will work in pairs on a guided close reading of the prologue. Once students understand how the prologue functions in the play, they will try writing a prologue sonnet to another piece of literature they have read. This lesson should precede the students' reading of the play and will take one class period. For Heidi Beehler's full unit plan on the history and form of the sonnet, click here. What You Need.