Romeo & Juliet Summaries and Close Readings

Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet has been a staple in English classes for years. This classic tale of forbidden love resonates with teens over 400 years after its publication. While full of beautifully written lines and witty puns, Romeo and Juliet can be difficult to understand, especially for students with learning disabilities or for whom English is not their first language, making teaching it difficult. Shakespeare Simplified to the rescue!
This resource is ideal for struggling students, or for units with time constraints.
Included:
✪ Character Map: to keep characters’ relationships to one another straight
✪ Prologue translation and annotations exercise
✪ Each act includes:
⇝ scene summaries
⇝ side-by-side original and modern translation of a selected scene
⇝ annotations, focuses, and questions
✪ Fillable PDF - can be uploaded to Google Classroom™, Schoology™, or the LMS of your choice, or sent to students to complete remotely.
**** Note: students may need to either (a) download the PDF and fill it out then reattach it or (b) use an extension such as Kami to “write” on the PDF. ****