1. Teacher Slide
For LA groups, you may want a simplified version of the prologue. After they have had a go at interpreting it, it would be good if you could go through it as a class and discuss what Shakespeare tells us here.
When watching the first scene, watch up to the Prince’s entrance ‘Throw your mistempered weapons to the ground’

2. 1. I show an understanding of the key ideas in the text All
Title: Mr Producer
Date: 11 May 2019
Objective: Can I explore how Shakespeare engages the audience?
Success Criteria
Grade/level
Key Words
1. I show an understanding of the key ideas in the text
All
Audience
Engagement
Genre
theme
8. I show an understanding of how the text affects an audience as a drama.
Most
12. I can develop my points, giving a sustained interpretation
Some
Numeracy
Literacy
Articulating my opinions succinctly
SMSC
& Values
Exploring different viewpoints, creating an argument

3. Mr. Producer LO: Can I explore how Shakespeare engages the audience?
What do you already know about Romeo and Juliet?
Brainstorm everything you know
Key words:
Audience
Engagement
Genre
theme

4. Detective Work
On the next slide is the prologue from Romeo and Juliet. The language is difficult, but I’d like you to have a go at reading it and seeing what you can discern about the story. What clues does it give us?

5. 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-cross'd lovers take their life;
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents' strife.
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 which if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.

6. Mr. Producer
Watch the opening scene of Baz Luhrman’s Romeo and Juliet.
This is a famous love story. Why do you think Shakespeare decided to open it in this way?

7. Imagine you are Baz Luhrman. How would you respond to this tweet?
@BazLuhrman, Romeo and Juliet is just a stupid love story