The Gibbs Gazette

Romeo and Juliet

Below are several assignments you may submit for extra credit points that will be factored into your final grade for the 2nd marking period.  Each assignment, and you may complete as many as you like, will count as one homework grade.

Soooo…if you have completed all of my homework assignments to date, you stand to receive an above  perfect score for the homework component of your grade, which will certainly be helpful.

If you have not completed all of my homework assignments to date, now is a good time to make up for those missing assignments. For each of these assignments you submit, you will have replaced a zero for a homework that you did not submit.

Guidelines:

1. Each assignment must be submitted to me in class, upon our return on January 5th. *Please do not submit your assignments online via the blog or via email. This will ensure that no assignments is lost  in cyberspace.
2. With each submission, please include a heading  or title indicating which assignment(s) you are submitting.
3. Be sure to check grammar, spelling and legibility of your submissions.

Romeo and Juliet, Act I, Extending and Evaluating

Although the action of this play takes place in Italy in the fourteenth century, we can recognize similarities between the culture of that time and that of our own. Which conflicts could you imagine taking place today?

*Hint think of both internal and external conflicts and elaborate with a specific example that puts you at the center of the conflict.

(Minimum 2 paragraphs, at least 5 sentences each)

Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene Design

Elizabethan playwrights created their scene designs mostly from words rather than the scenery, props, and lighting that might be used today. Pick a scene from Act II, and decide how you would design and stage it. If there is a wall or balcony in your scene, where would you place it? Where would the characters stand? Would you add furniture, trees and other props? Would you include a backdrop showing a city street, a garden, a forest, or a castle? How would you light your scene? Make a drawing of your scene.

*Hint:  Add labels and descriptions or make a 3-D version worth 3 homeworks.

Romeo and Juliet, Poetry

Pick one passage in Act II that especially appeals to you, and explain the poetic and literary devices involved. Is there rhyme, rhythm, or alliteration? What do the figures of speech mean? What senses do the images appeal to?

*Hint: include the definitions of the literary devices for clarity.

(Minimum 2 paragraphs, at least 5 sentences each)

Romeo and Juliet, Monarchies

Research the monarchs that reigned during Shakespeare’s lifetime. Find a connection about their influence on English theater during that time.

*Hint: you may choose any one of the monarchs you find reigned during his lifetime and discuss how his (or her) beliefs influenced theater at that time.

(Minimum 2 paragraphs, at least 5 sentences each)

Vocabulary Practice

Cube 5 of the ten vocabulary words listed. *Words with an asterisk can also be illustrated for extra points.

Cubing Technique

Define the word
Find its origin
Write something personal it reminds you of
Write a synonym
Write an antonym
Use it in a sentence

Vocabulary Bank

1. Coherent
2. Arrogate
3. Incendiary
4. Talisman*
5. Pejorative
6. Verdant*
7. Flotsam*
8. Pecuniary*
9. Derelict*
10. Diatribe

*Hint: Use a dictionary and a thesaurus