1. DO NOW
Using complete sentences (unless otherwise specified), complete the vocabulary portion of your Act I Literary Roadmap. You will be responsible for knowing these words.

2. Act I: Scenes i, ii, iii Recap
Act I serves as the exposition…what do we know so far?
Discuss Literary Road Map questions

3. Shakespeare’s Poetry Shakespeare’s plays are a form of poetry
Class Notes 21
Shakespeare’s Poetry
Shakespeare’s plays are a form of poetry
Poetry is any literary work with rhythm
The language in Shakespeare’s plays often takes on one of two forms:
blank verse
rhymed verse

4. Two Forms of Verse
Blank verse is unrhymed poetry meaning there is no rhyme at the ends of lines.
Rhymed verse is speech that is written in a rhyming pattern.
When Shakespeare rhymes, he usually creates couplets.

5. Couplets Couplets are two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
Example:
“She is too fair, too wise, wisely too fair, To merit bliss by making me despair.
She hath forsworn to love, and in that vow Do I live dead that live to tell it now.”

6. Now You Try!
Work in pairs to identify 3 examples of couplets in any of the scenes we’re read so far.
Write the couplets and page numbers they appear on down in your notes.

7. Act I: Scene iv
Roles:
Romeo
Mercutio
Benvolio

8. Act I: Scene v Roles First Servingman Second Servingman
Third Servingman
Capulet
Lady Capulet
Juliet
Tybalt
Nurse
Romeo
Benvolio

9. Act I Literary Road Map Using complete sentences, answer the
remaining Reading Comprehension questions
Your completed Literary Road Map
packet is due tomorrow!!