Romeo & Juliet 6-Week Unit (Y8)

Romeo and Juliet full scheme of work for Year 8. This is a 6-week unit which covers all acts.

The lessons are comprehensive and differentiated. They include starters, main activities and plenaries.

Activities also correlate with Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo and Juliet.

These lessons include the following:

• Context
• Setting
• Order the events activities
• Transactional and creative writing tasks
• Character exploration
• The Prologue
• Act 1 Introduction to characters
• Act 2 (‘The Balcony Scene’)
• Act 3 chain of events
• Act 3 Mercutio vs Tybalt
• Act 3 Tybalt’s death
• Act 4 Friar Lawrence’s plan
• Act 5 the theme of fate
• Act 5 Romeo’s/Juliet’s soliloquy
• Themes
• Peer assessment
• Formative assessment
• Summative assessment
• Scheme of Work