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I am Sara C. Friest
I am here because I love to give presentations.
You can find me at @sarafriest

Reading and Writing


in the Content Area
Romeo and Juliet

Background
As a high school librarian, I get the opportunity to collaborate with content area teachers in helping
students research. Each year, I spend most of spring semester working with our 9th graders. They read
Romeo and Juliet and have to write a research paper on a person or event from a particular time period.
I spend at least six class periods leading them through the research process. We take it step-by-step so
that they arent overwhelmed and their final products are very well done. Then they work together as
classes to rewrite the play. They are so creative and its amazing what they come up with!
The following is a collection of resources that can be used as students dig into Romeo and Juliet. The
included graphic organizers are all intended to help during the research paper mentioned above.
Enjoy!

Before Reading
Lets get our students excited about the text.
Lets make connections with what they already know.

Frontloading with Images

Students will be shown:


images of tragedies people can experience today (natural
disasters such as hurricanes, floods, and tornadoes, or
accidents such as vehicles accidents or explosions)
images of tragedies in the movies (Hunger Games, Titanic, or a
Walk to Remember).
Students will discuss the images and the theme.
Students will predict what the reading will be.

Prereading Quiz

Have students answer the following questions:


What do you think the play Romeo and Juliet is about?
Do you think this play would be interesting to read? Why or
why not?
Do you think that the story of Romeo and Juliet is important to
your life as a teenager? Why or why not?
Define tragedy in your own words and give an example from
real life.
What does tragic love mean? Give an example of tragic love
from stories, movies, or television shows.

3 Reading Aloud & Dramatic Role Play

Break students into three groups. Give each group three


numbered lines from the fifteen-minute plot narrative
(http://www.folger.edu/sites/default/files/TM13%20-%2015M%20Romeo%20%26%20Juliet.pdf)

Allow students to practice their lines as a group. Ask them to


use gestures as they practice their text.
Have students stand in a circle. When their numbered line is
called out, all students of the group will walk to the middle of
the circle and perform what they practiced.

During Reading
Lets visualize and question the text.

Second Helpings

Students will reread various scenes to identify character traits.


Students will make a table and list the character, their
affiliation, and their personality traits.

Annotating Text

Students will identify songs that remind them of characters or


themes or situations and make a note of it in the margin of
their text.
Songs for various scenes will be shared and voted on at the
beginning of the class period.

3 Sketching My Way Through the Text

Students will make a small sketch to represent each important plot


moment in the play.

After Reading
Lets reflect and share ideas.

Where Do You Stand?

After reading the play, students will be asked to move to the


appropriate corner of the room based on their opinion. They
must be ready to defend their position with evidence from the
text.
Statements to choose from:
The punishment for murder should always be death.
Teenagers cant understand what true love is.
Good friends should stick together no matter how wrong
a friend may be.
Telling lies or hiding the truth is acceptable for the right
reasons.
It is possible to fall in love at first sight.

Tweet the Text

Students
will
choose
a
character and write a tweet
from
that
characters
perspective. Must not be more
than 140 characters.

Written Conversation

Students are to answer the following questions on their


papers:
Do you think that the story of Romeo and Juliet is
important to your life as a teenager?
Did your opinion of Romeo and Juliet change after
studying the play?
Students will then swap their papers and react to their
classmates response (questions, connections, ideas, etc)
Partners will continue to swap back and forth for three or four
rounds.
Students will read their classmates comments.

Vocabulary
Make new words stick!

Password

Split class into five groups and take turns having students
come to the front to guess vocabulary words. The words will
be posted behind the guesser and the team members will
shout clues for one minute. The number of words guessed
correctly will be recorded. Students who guessed the most
words will win.
Words to use:
Drama, tragedy, prologue, sonnet, prose, chorus,
anachronism, verbal irony, monologue, soliloquy, foil,
aside, oxymoron, pun, comic relief, static character,
dynamic character, blank verse, couplet

Quick Write
Lets help students understand and remember.

Admission Slip

Using their music annotations from the during reading activities,


students will share and vote on their favorite selections at the
beginning of the each class period.
Students will get to listen to a short clip of the song.

Drawing and Illustrating

Using information (character traits) from the Second Helping activity,


students will create character sketches. See examples below.

Writing to Learn
Lets deepen students understanding of the text.

Carousel Brainstorming

Students will change history and plan a proper wedding for


Romeo and Juliet. There are no limits as long as the choices
make sense to Romeo and Juliet.
Students will break into groups and will circle the room adding
ideas to each category. Categories include:
Guest list
Conversation
Fashion
Food
Music
Games

Nonstop Write

Students are to imagine that they found personal documents or


artifacts belonging to Romeo (letters, to-do lists, data, poems, etc).
Students will craft the details of that document nonstop for five
minutes.

Public Writing Project


Lets share what weve learned!

Adaptation of Romeo and Juliet

Students will brainstorm in rows and then present their ideas for the
rewrite. All students will vote.
Six groups will be formed that will each be responsible for different
scenes within the play.
Classes will work together to polish and rewrite (at least 3 days).
Roles will be cast, committees will be arranged (script, tech, props,
costumes, music, photography, and thank you), and plays will be
performed and recorded.
Final editing will take place. Plays must be no longer than 15 minutes.
All six classes will then showcase their creations in the theater with
families and friends in attendance. There will be a vote for the winning
production.

Graphic Organizers

Implementation
Romeo and Juliet Adaptation

Ive done this project with twelve


classes in the last two years. I
have seen some great work, but
here are my favorites!
Hunger Games

Unsinkable Love

Rap Wars

Last year, I had a


class who meshed
the story of Romeo
and Juliet with the
Hunger Games. They
added some great
music from the movie
and it was brilliant!

One of my classes
this year meshed
Romeo and Juliet
with the Titanic.
They are still working
on editing their clips
but it looks to be
promising.

Another class this


year turned Romeo
and Juliet into a rap
war Their script is
pretty impressive
become most of it
rythmes!

Credits
Special thanks to all the people who made and released these awesome resources for
free:

Presentation template by SlidesCarnival


http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/tragic-loveintroducing-shakespeare-1162.html?tab=4#tabs
http://smago.coe.uga.edu/VirtualLibrary/Berry_Donovan_Hummel.pdf
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson1162/Ques
tionnaire.pdf
http://www.shmoop.com/romeo-and-juliet/romeo-character.html
http://www.folger.edu/pre-reading-romeo-and-juliet-performing-and-analyzi
ng-the-prologue
http://www.shmoop.com/romeo-and-juliet/summary.html
http://cmcweb.lr.k12.nj.us/webquest/moran/rj.htm

Thanks!
Any questions ?
You can find me at

@sarafriest
sfriest@lps.org

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