Homework: “Two Households…”
Romeo & Juliet: The Prologue Today we spent some time exploring the metre of the prologue to Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet”. The next step is the decode the language of the lines you were assigned so we can build the whole picture together. Download (PDF,...
Romeo and Juliet: Analysis of the Prologue
Today we’re pulling all the analysis of the meaning and metre of the Prologue together by writing a paragraph explaining what impact Shakespeare’s language choices have on us as audience members, hearing the prologue for the first time. Attached is the worksheet from today that contains some useful support material: useful terms and some sentence starters. Download (PDF,...
Treading the Boards: Act I, Scene 1
This period we look at Romeo and Juliet as a play – examining the features of the text that are typical of what you’d expect from a play text – intended to be viewed rather than read. The attached presentation explores these features, provides a guide to annotation and contains an excerpt of a filmed interpretation to demonstrate how much of a play’s interpretation is left to the actors and director. Your...
Romeo and Juliet – Project Outine
What better way to begin Year 9 English than with the Bard himself? We are incredibly lucky to be able to walk the same streets as Shakespeare did and here at the London Nautical we don’t take this privilege lightly. We launched our Shakespeare study today by diving straight into his language and exploring intricacies of the Prologue to the famous play Romeo and Juliet. Throughout this programme we will be reading this play as a...
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