1. Journal Writing Project
Shakespeare Unit
Journal Writing Project

2. Journal Entry Question #1 March 15th, 2012
Did you find Shakespeare's biography
interesting? What details about his life did you learn? Did any facts about his personal life surprise you? Why or why not?

3. Journal Entry Question # 2 March 19, 2012
Have you ever read Romeo and Juliet before?
What do you know about the play? Have you read any other Shakespearean plays? If so, which plays have you read?

4. Journal Entry Question Three March 22, 2012
Romeo and Juliet begins with a dramatic scene that reveals the rivalries between the Montague and Capulet families. Describe a television show that illustrates conflicts between friends and/or differing families. What reaction did you have while watching that show? How did that show intensify/dramatize the rivalry? EX: Real Housewives of...

5. Journal Entry Question Five
Identity the quotes' speaker and the act that it comes from:
1. “A plague o' both your houses!”
2. “I will withdraw, but this intrusion shall
Now seeming sweet, convert to bitt'rest gall”
3. “O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?”
4. “These violent delights have violent ends”
5. “But soft, what light through younder window breaks?
It is the East, and Juliet is the Sun”

6. Journal Entry Question Six
Describe what you have learned about Shakespeare and Romeo and Juliet thus far. Provide specific examples from his biography and the play.
Also answer the following question: Do you feel more comfortable with the Shakespearean language? Why or why not?

7. Journal Entry Question Seven
Write a reaction statement to...
Throughout the play, Shakespeare consistently links the intensity of young love with suicidal impulses. Romeo's threat of suicide in scene III, for instance, clearly illustrates and foreshadows R&J's suicide in Act V. Time and time again, Shakespeare illustrates that suicide is the only response to the overwhelming experience that is brought upon by [young] love.

8. Journal Entry Question Eight

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10. Journal Entry Question Ten