Romeo and Juliet Act 3 Post-Reading Creative Writing Prompts

Enhance your study of Act 3 of Romeo and Juliet with these stimulating and thought-provoking creative writing prompts. Tailored for classroom engagement, these work great as homework assignments, writing assessments, extension tasks, cover lessons, and filler activities. With a variety of prompts, these will ignite your students’ imagination and deepen their understanding of themes and characters in the play. From the intense street fight resulting in Tybalt’s death to Romeo’s banishment and Juliet’s despair, these prompts foster critical thinking and encourage creative storytelling.

This resource is ideal for English classrooms, offering a range of prompts that cater to different levels of ability, ensuring that students remain engaged and challenged throughout their exploration of Act 3. Don’t miss out on this invaluable tool for teaching Shakespeare’s timeless tragedy, Romeo and Juliet.

The download includes the following:
★ A list of all 10 prompts for Act 3
★ Individual handouts for each prompt on which students can write or plan their creative pieces.

Some examples of the prompts are:
➤ Write a monologue based on Act 3 Scene 2 from the Nurse’s perspective. You should consider how she would feel about telling Juliet of Tybalt’s death and how she would now feel about helping Romeo and Juliet.
➤ Write a monologue from Lord Capulet’s perspective after his argument with Juliet in Act 3, Scene 5. In the monologue, he could express his frustration with his daughter’s disobedience, and share his reasons for wanting her to marry Paris.