I have to whittle Romeo & Juliet down to two weeks.
This means finding the most important scenes from each act and still making sure the kids get the whole story. I’m not sure how to do this. Plus I have to make sure they still learn : Soliloquy, monologue, pun tragedy, comedy, aside, chorus, farce, oxymoron, foil, paradox, comic relief, tragic hero, stage directions, dialogue, dialect, dramatic point of view, dramatic irony. Ugh.
I technically could take a month with it, but I’d like to have two weeks of EOC review/practice. These kids are going to pass that test, dang it!
You can read the whole play out loud in two weeks. People do actually watch it in one sitting. ;)
As you read, then you say: ’Okay, this is an example of_______” and make a word wall, with photocopied pieces of the text next to it.
GWALP, you make me want to teach high school English. Mostly Shakespeare. Like whoa.
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