Romeo and Juliet Key Scenes

Ten fully differentiated and resourced lessons that focus on key scenes from William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.

1. The Prologue (Key themes. Language and structure analysis)
2. Act 1 Scene 1 (Language analysis. Context Elizabethan dueling)
3. Act 1 Scene 2 (Language analysis. Exam question and model paragraphs. Elizabethan gender roles)
4. Act 1 scene 4 (Petrachan lover)
5. Act 1 scene 5 (Light and dark imagery)
6. Act 2 scene 2 (Language analysis. Context: The Copernican Theory)
7. Act 2 scene 3 and 6 (Character analysis. Context fate)
8. Act 3 scene 1 (Character analysis)
9. Act 3 scene 5 (Language analysis. Context Patriarchal gender roles)
10. Act 5 scene 3 (Concepts of love. Exam question)

Aimed at the new AQA specification for English Literature.