Tuesday, January 29th

Romeo and Juliet Seminar
Review Seminar Rubric & Reflection Assignment (due Friday)

TOGETHER: Rehearse choral reading of cut balcony scene.

“Directors”: Be ready to introduce the context of your scene.  Include which characters appear, what has just happened before it, and any other relevant details that the audience will need to understand.

Homework: Practice your lines!

Monday, January 28th

Group Rehearsal in Commons!

Seminar Prep Questions:  Get ready for tomorrow's seminar!
Answer in writing in your Shakespeare Journal or on a separate sheet on paper.

Tuesday, January 22nd

Continue Zeffirelli version with attention to the scenes we will produce....

If time, cast for GROUP SCENE PROJECT

Thursday, January 17

Journal #5 (from Tuesday):  Reflect on the experience of bringing a scene to life with acting.  How did this go for our class and for you personally?

The star-crossed lovers meet!
Film versions and Group Reading
1.5 "Saints and Pilgrims"
2.2 The Balcony Scene
Homework:  Memorize the bold-faced passage of EITHER Romeo or Juliet from 2.2

DISCUSS the LOVE in this play:)

Journal #6:  Do you believe in Romeo and Juliet’s love?  Do you think Shakespeare intended it to be interpreted as real love?  Explain your opinion.

Tuesday, January 15

The Civil Brawl:

1. Choral Reading of the Prince's monologue

2. Blocking and Acting!

3. Journal #5: Reflect on the experience of bringing a scene to life with acting.  How did this go for our class and for you personally?

Monday, January 14

DEBRIEF the film and the project so far.

Share out contents of Scavenger Hunt.  Turn in if you have not done so already!
What other questions do we have right now?

Shakespearean Insults!  Let's hurl them.
Craft Multiple Insults
Work with a partner to find definitions
Partner A, Partner B
Montagues and Capulets!


Scene 1.1: A Civil Brawl
1. How did Baz Luhrman do this scene?
2. Watch Zeffirelli version.  Differences?  What do we think?

Journal #4:  What is the dramatic effect of beginning a play or a movie with a fight scene?  Can you think of other examples?

3. Cast Parts for a Read-through
4. Stage Directions
5. Puns
6. Let's make swords!
7. If time, block the scene!

Tomorrow, we will finish blocking this scene and acting it out, so if you want to bring any props or costumes for your characters, do so! 

Friday, January 11th

Finish Romeo + Juliet

Journal #3:  React to the experience of watching Shakespeare as cinema.  How does seeing the actors bring the story to life change your interpretation of the story?

Homework: Finish Scavenger Hunt (due Monday)

Thursday, January 10

Choral Reading: Romeo and Juliet Prologue

What is this story about?  Major themes?

Start Romeo + Juliet

(“Annotate” the film with the seminar prep in mind)

1. Are Romeo and Juliet truly in love?  Did Shakespeare mean for us to interpret it as real love?
2. Which character in the play is the most to blame for the events of this tragedy? 
3. What are some themes and issues in Romeo and Juliet that are still relevant today?  What about this play can you relate to our times, either personally or generally?
4. Compare and contrast the two movie versions that we watched.  (Be sure to discuss similarities as well as differences.
5. Why do people still connect to Shakespeare 400 years later?

Wednesday, January 9

Shakespeare Journal Set Up

1. Start a new Google Doc in your Humanities folder.
2. Name it YOUR NAME SHAKESPEARE JOURNAL.
3. Share with Jessica.
4. Label each entry with its # and respond!  Make sure you keep up on these journals, even if you miss!

Journal #1: How do you feel going into this project?  How are you feeling about having to read and perform Shakespeare?

Finish Jaques' Soliloquy....

From another soliloquy...

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow

Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,

To the last syllable of recorded time;

And all our yesterdays have lighted fools

The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,

That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,

And then is heard no more. It is a tale

Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,

Signifying nothing.

Macbeth V.v.19-28

Journal #2:  What do you think about Shakespeare’s language?   How does it feel to read it out loud?

Scenes from Macbeth 2013

TO-DO:

• Read the short story version of Romeo and Juliet.  Be ready for a short reading quiz tomorrow!
• Shakespeare and Elizabethan England Scavenger Hunt (due Friday)

Tuesday, January 8

Welcome back!  Welcome, new crew!  
Share out: Why Animas?

Why Shakespeare?

Project Overview

What questions are there at this point?

The words!

Choral Reading: Jaques’ soliloquy:  As You Like It II.vii.139

• What is the extended metaphor?
• What do the words mean?  What are some ways that we figure that out?
• In what different tones/moods might you deliver this soliloquy?

Players 

Kevin Kline Jaques (5:15)

Jaques 2

Morgan Freeman