Romeo and Juliet Lesson

This lesson is on Act 1 Scene 1.

It involves a starter task looking at the tragic arc to introduce them to the idea of tragedy as a genre. It also involves reading the first scene as a class and then looking closer at language. The lesson focuses on practicing skills like exploding quotations to closely analysis language and looking through an extract to find good quotations.

Students are also prompted to think about the scene as part of the whole play, so why is it significant to the plot and the rest of the play? The concept of foreshadowing is introduced as well as the characters of Benvolio and Tybalt.

At the end of the lesson they have an opportunity to write formally in a PEAL paragraph to show off what they have learnt and answer the question: Why is the scene so significant?

(It’s a long lesson- may take two lessons if you spend more time writing and editing/evaluating.)