Shakespeare, the globe theater & romeo and juliet
Student teaching resources: http://allisoncarmackfinalportfolio.weebly.com/student-teaching-unit.html
The 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 foes
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Do 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.
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 misadventured piteous overthrows
Do 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.
English dialects identification activity
- http://alt-usage-english.org/audio_archive.shtml
- http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html
Character map
HANDOUTS FOR THE UNIT
- Character Map Cluster
- Romeo and Juliet Discussion Questions [Prologue, Act I, Act II]
- Romeo and Juliet Discussion Questions [Act III]
- Romeo and Juliet Discussion Questions [Act IV and Act V]
- Romeo & Juliet Study Guide [Level 2]
- Paraphrasing Activity
- Romeo and Juliet Creative Project
- Arranged Marriage Persuasive Writing Assignment