Romeo & Juliet 1
Part of Curriculum Unit:Romeo & Juliet
Abstract help
A dialogue between students and instructor is created about
what the students know in regards to the play "Romeo & Juliet."
Students usually feel that the play is an idealistic love story
about two star crossed lovers that die for love.
The instructor implies that the play provides insight to
how people communicate and how that affects relationships.
After reading the play students will explore communication
patterns presented by the text and how those patters affect
the outcome of the play and they will communicate their discoveries
in an essay.
what the students know in regards to the play "Romeo & Juliet."
Students usually feel that the play is an idealistic love story
about two star crossed lovers that die for love.
The instructor implies that the play provides insight to
how people communicate and how that affects relationships.
After reading the play students will explore communication
patterns presented by the text and how those patters affect
the outcome of the play and they will communicate their discoveries
in an essay.
National Standards help
Standard 3. Students apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate, and appreciate texts. They draw on their prior experience, their interactions with other readers and writers, their knowledge of word meaning and of other texts, their word identification strategies, and their understanding of textual features (e.g., sound-letter correspondence, sentence structure, context, graphics).
Standard 5. Students employ a wide range of strategies as they write and use different writing process elements appropriately to communicate with different audiences for a variety of purposes.
Standard 9. Students develop an understanding of and respect for diversity in language use, patterns, and dialects across cultures, ethnic groups, geographic regions, and social roles.
Standard 12. Students use spoken, written, and visual language to accomplish their own purposes (e.g., for learning, enjoyment, persuasion, and the exchange of information).
Standard 5. Students employ a wide range of strategies as they write and use different writing process elements appropriately to communicate with different audiences for a variety of purposes.
Standard 9. Students develop an understanding of and respect for diversity in language use, patterns, and dialects across cultures, ethnic groups, geographic regions, and social roles.
Standard 12. Students use spoken, written, and visual language to accomplish their own purposes (e.g., for learning, enjoyment, persuasion, and the exchange of information).
Pre-requisite Skills help
Student must be able to read and write, basic computer skills
and understand the process of writing an essay.
and understand the process of writing an essay.
Student Activity help
Students crteate a Communication Map, which lists the names of all main
characters in the play. A line is drawn between characters
that communicate through out the play as follows:
A solid line connects characters that communicate with a sense
of emotional awareness and bonding for each other.
A broken line connects characters that communicate without
any sense of emotion or internal connections.
Those characters that never communicate will not be
connected.
Once the map is completed the students answer the following:
-Who communicates in an emotional manner? Who does not?
-Who doesn't communicate in an emotional manner
but should?
-What can you conclude about how communication takes place
through out the play?
Once answered the students write an essay on the following
prompt:
Write an essay in which you analyze Romeo & Juliet on
the basis of communication, or the lack there of.
How does the manner in which the main characters
communicate affect the action of the play?
Would better communication between the characters
change the final outcome?
Teacher corrects the first draft and then students re write
the essay incorporating the corrections.
The second draft is to be word processed and saved in a disk.
characters in the play. A line is drawn between characters
that communicate through out the play as follows:
A solid line connects characters that communicate with a sense
of emotional awareness and bonding for each other.
A broken line connects characters that communicate without
any sense of emotion or internal connections.
Those characters that never communicate will not be
connected.
Once the map is completed the students answer the following:
-Who communicates in an emotional manner? Who does not?
-Who doesn't communicate in an emotional manner
but should?
-What can you conclude about how communication takes place
through out the play?
Once answered the students write an essay on the following
prompt:
Write an essay in which you analyze Romeo & Juliet on
the basis of communication, or the lack there of.
How does the manner in which the main characters
communicate affect the action of the play?
Would better communication between the characters
change the final outcome?
Teacher corrects the first draft and then students re write
the essay incorporating the corrections.
The second draft is to be word processed and saved in a disk.
Assessment help
*Communication Map Criteria- All main characters from the
play must be included. All actual communication patterns
must be drafted in an easily understandable and neat
manner.
*Communication Map Essay Criteria,
1st Draft- Multi paragraphed, coherent and
insightful conclusion from map.
*Essay Final Draft Criteria- Word processed, saved on disk,
free of spelling and grammar errors, multi paragraphed.
play must be included. All actual communication patterns
must be drafted in an easily understandable and neat
manner.
*Communication Map Essay Criteria,
1st Draft- Multi paragraphed, coherent and
insightful conclusion from map.
*Essay Final Draft Criteria- Word processed, saved on disk,
free of spelling and grammar errors, multi paragraphed.
Technology Requirements/Integration help
Students will understand the basic operation of a word
processing application, typing, spell checking editing
and saving on a disk.
processing application, typing, spell checking editing
and saving on a disk.