William Shakespeare,
Romeo and Juliet
Lesson plans & other teaching ideas, p. 3
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Romeo and Juliet
Digital Booktalk
This short video can serve as a prereading activity.
Romeo and Juliet
Family Shields
This lesson takes the family loyalty facet of the play beyond mere coloring family crests into the hallways and cafeteria. The "banished student" is especially intriguing.
Romeo and Juliet
Letter Tiles Puzzle
Students rearrange letter tiles to complete famous quotations from the play. Includes answers. Adobe Reader required for access; 2 pages.
Romeo and Juliet License Plates
A fun culminating activity.
Romeo and Juliet
Text Messages
This parody by cartoonist Roz Chast was first published in the New Yorker.
Romeo and Juliet
Timeline Activity
In this review activity students reconstruct the plot, looking at cause-and-effect relationships. This activity requires each student to have a digital copy of the file, which is available in MS-Word format.
Shakespearean Dating Tips
This TED-ED video (2:25) uses lines from
Romeo and Juliet
to explore words and phrases credited to Shakespeare and his romantic use of language. Captioned, includes follow-up questions.
Study Guide for Shakespeare:
Romeo and Juliet
Scene-by-scene background and analysis, with emphasis on the Zefirelli film version.
Studying
Romeo and Juliet
for GCSE
Careful analysis of several aspects of the play, and some suggestions for comparing it with
A Midsummer Night's Dream
. This web page is intended for students who are following the AQA/NEAB GCSE syllabi in English Language (1111/1112) and English literature (1121).
Suggestions for Pairing Contemporary Music and Canonical Literature
A list of songs that were inspired by reading literature. Organized by the last name of the author (e.g. Chinua Achebe, William Butler Yeats), the list includes song title, performer, year of release, and more. The list includes 12 songs inspired by
Romeo and Juliet
.
A Teacher's Guide to
Romeo and Juliet
A nice variety of approaches to the play, including suggestions for avoiding censorship. This 15-page document requires Adobe Reader or compatible application for access.
Vocabulary from Romeo and Juliet :
Words are presented in context and with definitions. Click on a word for pronunciation, synonyms, more.
West Side Story
: Birth of a Classic
This exhibit from the U. S. Library of Congress includes correspondence and other documents related to the development and production of the Broadway musical,
West Side Story
. Their description:
The Broadway musical is a commercial art form that often aspires to, and occasionally attains, high art. It is also a collaborative medium, in which the librettist, composer, lyricist, director, and choreographer determine together the details of plot and action, the style and tone of the production, and how music, movement, and language will be used to best convey the story they wish to tell. The collaboration also involves dozens of people who play key roles, including the designers of the set, lighting, and costumes, the orchestrators and musicians, and ultimately the performers who must embody not only the characters they play, but also must be able to sing and dancein the case of West Side Storythis most demanding music and choreography. The items on display in this section come from the Librarys Leonard Bernstein Collection and provide a rare window into this complex process.
What Shakespeare Plays Originally Sounded Like
This video (10:07) uses examples from the sonnets, the prologues to
Henry V
and
Romeo and Juliet
, and lines from
As You Like It
to explore the impact of Original Pronunciation on understanding Shakespeare's language.
You Kiss by the Book
Lesson plans for
Romeo and Juliet
from EdSITEment.