Next we worked on the following worksheet:
Read I.I.76-153
and answer questions 1-4 in 2-3 sentences each
1. What does the prince think about the Capulets and
Montagues?
2. What is the warning the prince gives to the
Capulets and Montagues?
3. Describe Benvolio. What kind of a man is he? Give specific
examples.
4. The Montagues are worried about Romeo. Describe how Romeo is acting.
Now read
lines 154-233 and answer the rest of the questions
Why is Romeo
sad? Give me a line to prove this.
Romeo says
“she’ll not be hit with Cupid’s arrow” What does he mean?
He says some
other things right after (204-211). Write down one thing he says and write down
what he means.
What is
Benvolio’s advice?
How does Romeo
respond to Benvolio’s advice?
Do you agree
more with Benvolio’s view on love or Romeo’s? Explain.
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I also gave students the following to complete over Winter Break (first block on 12/17 did not get this sheet- they'll receive it after break)
Assignment
for memorizing Act one's prologue
(Worth 20 points).
(Worth 20 points).
Presenting
the prologue by 1/4 or 1/5 gets you 25 points
Presenting
by 1/6 or 1/7 gets you 20 points
Presenting
by 1/8 or 1/11 gets you 15 points
Presenting
after 1/12 or 1/13 gets you 10 points
¨ Presenting
with EMOTION can get you five to ten more points.
¨ Bringing
in props to help make the monologue more understandable will get you five to
ten more points.
¨ Making
an art project using any type of material can get you five to ten more points
(check out above the chalk board).
¨ Doing
another monologue will get you one point for every two lines memorized.
¨
Doing a dialogue (with another
student) will get you each one point for every four lines memorized.
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 foes
A pair of
star-cross’d lovers take their life;
Whose misadventur’d piteous overthrows
Doth 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.
