Romeo & Juliet

Brainstorming

1. Think of your favorite movie.

2. Write:– The title– The director (if you know

it)– The genre (horror,

romance, action, etc.)– The setting– The main characters– The conflict– The tone

3. Answer:– Why does this

movie appeal to you?

NOTES

• The most well-known, greatest, best, most awesome actor, playwright and director ever!

• First and foremost – an entertainer

William Shakespeare

• Born April 23, 1564 in Stratford-Upon-Avon

William Shakespeare’s Home

Shakespeare’s Life in Short• 1582 at age 18 married Anne Hathaway– No surviving progeny:

• Hamnet (died age 11) • Judith (never married)• Susanna (married w/1 daughter, never married)

• 1592 left his family and went to London (28 years old) – Became an actor and playwright

• 1616 Died in Stratford Upon Avon– Returned here around 1612

• 1623 First Folio Published

Shakespeare’s Grave

Good friend for Jesus sake forbeare,To dig the dust enclosed here. Blessed be the man that spares these stones,And cursed be he that moves my bones

Sonnets and Iambic Pentameter

• Sonnet: 14 lines of iambic Pentameter – abab, cdcd, efef, gg

• Iambic Pentameter: Five-beat poetic line (stressed and unstressed syllables)

• Take this example from Shakespeare’s Sonnet XXIX:

For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings,That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

Romeo and Juliet 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 foesA pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;Whose misadventured piteous overthrowsDo with their death bury their parents' strife.The fearful passage of their death-mark'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.

• http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1kkig_romeo-juliet-opening_shortfilms

Iambic Pentameter Video

• Iambic Pentameter Rap:– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p226OX39OLs

• Iambic Pentameter Feet activity:– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArrR66OSa0Q

TOD

• If someone tells you he discovered his family could be traced back to Shakespeare on ancestery.com, should you believe him?

• How many lines does a sonnet have?• What does Iambic Pentameter mean?• Questions/Comments

Hip Hop and Shakespeare

• Hip hop and Shakespeare (video clip – 8:24) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSbtkLA3GrY

Globe Theater

• Built in London in 1599

• Destroyed by fire in 1613, rebuilt 1614

• Closed by the Puritans in 1642

• Shakespeare owned a share in the theater

The Globe• Round, wooden, roofless building• Three galleries of seats• Pit (no seats) cost a penny “groundlings”• http://www.shakespearesglobe.com/about-us/vir

tual-tour

Modern Globe (built 1997)

Shakespeare’s Career

• Shakespeare's plays were only performed by Lord Chamberlain’s Men, a company of players that Shakespeare partly owned.

• After Queen Elizabeth dies in 1603 and King James I takes over the throne, the company was called the King’s Men.

Quick Write

• Hip hop and Shakespeare (video clip – 8:24) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSbtkLA3GrY

• Answer: – How does the speaker update Shakepeare? – What remains the same?

Always be thinking – What beauty exists in language?

TOD

• What was Shakespeare’s theater called? • What are the two families that are rivals?• What is a brawl?• Comments/questions

Shakespeare’s Works

• 38 Plays– 16 Comedies– 10 Histories– 12 Tragedies

• 154 Sonnets• 2 long narrative poems• Several other poems

That’s a lot of writing!

Comedy• A drama or narrative

with a happy ending or non-tragic theme (traditionally a wedding.)

Tragedy• A serious play or drama

with an unhappy or disastrous ending brought on, as in ancient drama, by a fate and a tragic flaw in the main character.

Tragic Hero

• Basically a good person• Who tries to do the right thing• But because of a tragic flaw• Destroys themselves and others

around them.

Quick Write

• Shakespeare is everywhere (video clip 1:50-5:09)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsESSyMnwmU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMkuUADWW2A

• Answer:– Name three phrases or idioms that Shakespeare

invented from each video– Use your knowledge: What other influences have

we had on the English language?

Vocab Application1. True or False? Pernicious means deadly, but

portentous means something deadly is coming

2. A sonnet has how many lines?3. If someone hoodwinked you, would that

person be a knave?4. When you do something wrong, your parents

or guardians might _______ you.5. The Capulets and the Montagues get into a

_______ at the beginning of the play.

TOD

• What is the difference between a tragedy and a comedy?

• How is Shakespeare already setting up Romeo and Juliet as a tragedy?

• Questions/Comments

Vocab Application 13A

• I ________ an unkind word to my friend, and she promptly walked away.

• My brother can also be called my ______.• The ________ hair color in my family is brown.• A basketball, an orange, and a bubble are all

______.• When Sam wouldn’t wake up, Kate ____ him

with a bucket of cold water to the face.

Vocab Application 13A

• I uttered an unkind word to my friend, and she promptly walked away.

• My brother can also be called my kinsman.• The predominant hair color in my family is

brown.• A basketball, an orange, and a bubble are all

orbs.• When Sam wouldn’t wake up, Kate roused him

with a bucket of cold water to the face.

Bellringer

EQ:

1. Explain Romeo’s reaction to the news of his banishment.

2. Why does Lady Capulet think Juliet is crying? Why is she really crying?

3. What is Capulet’s reaction to Juliet’s refusal to marry Paris?

4. What does the nurse advise Juliet to do about Paris and Romeo?

Love Help Letter

• Read the letters from Romeo and Juliet• Pick one • You are the advice columnist! Write a 1 page

response to Romeo or Juliet. Give specific reasons for your argument. Give details and examples to back up your reasoning.