1. This film guide is YOUR LIFE for the next two weeks. Make sure you have it with you DAILY. Additional copies WILL cost your 15 formative points off of your TOTAL grade. For reals. WRITE YOUR NAME IN INK ON THE COVER SHEET! ROMEO AND JULIET— FILM GUIDE

2. ROMEO AND JULIET— FILM GUIDE PAGE 1—Look at the cover picture of Romeo and Juliet and answer the questions that follow: Who are Romeo and Juliet? What is their relationship? How will their relationship change throughout the story?

3. VOCABULARY LOGS TRAGEDY— A dramatic play that tells the story of a main character, usually of a noble class, who meets an untimely and unhappy death or downfall often because of a specific character flaw or twist of fate.

4. VOCABULARY LOGS PROLOGUE— Serves as an introductory speech when an actor provides the audience with a brief outline for the plot.

5. THE PROLOGUE: SO MUCH FROM ONE SONNET In Romeo and Juliet, the prologue is a sonnet, or a poem that consists of 14 lines. It has a very specific rhyme scheme! This is called a Shakespearean Sonnet.

6. MEET WITH YOUR: Take your handout and something to write with! ROMEO AND JULIET: K-W-L CHART

7. THE PROLOGUE: SO MUCH FROM ONE SONNET Put a box around each set of 4 lines using the following: 1 st four linesBLUE 2 nd group of four lines RED 3 rd group of four linesGREEN Label these chunks as QUATRAINS, which is a four lined stanza in a poem.

8. THE PROLOGUE: SO MUCH FROM ONE SONNET Put a box around each set of 4 lines using the following: 1 st four linesBLUE 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.

9. Put a box around each set of 4 lines using the following: 2 nd group of four lines RED 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 PROLOGUE: SO MUCH FROM ONE SONNET

10. Put a box around each set of 4 lines using the following: 3 rd group of four lines GREEN 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 PROLOGUE: SO MUCH FROM ONE SONNET

11. Put a circle around the last two lines of the poem— ANY COLOR. The which if you with patient ears attend, What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend. Label this as a COUPLET, two consecutive lines of verse with end rhyme. A couplet usually expresses a complete unit of thought. THE PROLOGUE: SO MUCH FROM ONE SONNET

12. As we read the prologue aloud, use the margin to text-mark and take brief notes. Use the questions below to guide you: Where is the play set? Who is going to be involved? What will the conflict be? THE PROLOGUE: SO MUCH FROM ONE SONNET

13. 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-crossed lovers take their life, Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Doth with their death bury their parents' strife. The fearful passage of their death-marked love And the continuance of their parents' rage, Which, but their children’s end, naught 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.

14. THE PROLOGUE: SO MUCH FROM ONE SONNET Now that we have read and text-marked the prologue, you will translate it into your own “modern” language. Use the column next to your text marking to break down the poem line by line. You should have 14 lines of your own language. Be ready to share and discuss this!

15. THE PROLOGUE: SO MUCH FROM ONE SONNET Take your packet and something to write with and meet up with your…

16. Use the last column on your handout. Be creative, and write it as if you are texting a friend to fill them in on what’s going to happen in R&J!

17. We will watch two versions of the prologue: Zeffirelli (1968) and Luhrmann (1997) As we watch the two versions, jot down the similarities and differenced you notice between the two. Take detailed notes! THE PROLOGUE: SO MUCH FROM ONE SONNET

18. Which film version of The Prologue did you like better? Why? WHICH DO YOU PREFER?

19. THE PROLOGUE QUIZ 1.Pass up your PROLOGUE HANDOUTS from yesterday. 2.CLEAR your desks. 3.Fill in the information on your SCANTRON. FIRST and LAST NAME DATE—05/4/15 SUBJECT—PROLOGUE QUIZ 4.When you are DONE with your quiz, bring it to me and take out your ROMEO AND JULIET PACKET!