1. Gather your
materials!
Let’s Prepare!

2. The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
Lesson 4

3. Let’s Review!

4. Let’s Prepare!

5. Today’s Outcomes
TSWBAT identify conflict and explain how it advances the plot of a Shakespearean drama.
TSWBAT practice citing textual evidence using MLA format.

6. Gather your
materials!
Let’s Prepare!

7. Let’s Prepare! speaking roles larger smaller CHARACTER ROLE
STUDENT READER
speaking roles
larger
BENVOLIO
TYBALT
LORD MONTAGUE
THE PRINCE
ROMEO
smaller
SAMPSON
GREGORY
ABRAM
OFFICER
LORD CAPULET
LADY MONTAGUE

8. Let’s Read! Act 1, Scene i 20 minutes!
As we read, if you hear details about character descriptions or motivations, add them to your character charts.

9. How are the Capulet servants provoking a fight?
Question 1
30 seconds
Let’s Pause!
LINES 35-46
How are the Capulet servants provoking a fight?

10. Let’s Pause! What is Benvolio attempting
Question 2
30 seconds
Let’s Pause!
LINES 57-58
What is Benvolio attempting
when he says, “Part, fools!...”

11. Let’s Pause! What kind of character does Tybalt seem to be? Question 3
30 seconds
Let’s Pause!
LINES 63-65
What kind of character
does Tybalt seem to be?

12. What is the prince’s ultimatum?
Question 4
30 seconds
Let’s Pause!
LINES 74-96
What is the prince’s ultimatum?

13. Let’s Pause! Why is Lord Montague worried?
Question 5
30 seconds
Let’s Pause!
EXCHANGE BETWEEN BENVOLIO AND LORD MONTAGUE
Why is Lord Montague worried?
What has Romeo’s behavior been lately?

14. Let’s Pause! Why is Romeo sad?
Question 6
30 seconds
Let’s Pause!
EXCHANGE BETWEEN BENVOLIO AND ROMEO
Why is Romeo sad?
How does Benvolio attempt to cheer his cousin?

15. Let’s Express Our Understanding!
Character Chart
22 minutes
Let’s Express Our Understanding!
MLA citations:
Act, scene, line #
( )
Backslashes between lines of verse
“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.”

16. Let’s Close!
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