Romeo and Juliet 1.1

Do now: what is one thing you learned about Shakespeare?

Objectives:

• define essential drama terms
• become comfortable with shakespeare’s language
• Analyze how the prologue provides exposition and foreshadowing

Essential questions:

What decisions do Romeo and Juliet make that lead to their fate?  Which parts of their fate are out of their control?

How do the themes (fate and chance, passion and reason, individual and group, etc.) of the play relate to our own lives?

Agenda:

1. do now

2. define drama terms

3. Prologue activity

4. summarizer

HW: reflection: how comfortable were you reading the prologue?  Was it difficult to understand?  Why/why not?