ROMEO AND JULIET CULMINATING ACTIVITIES
CULMINATING ACTIVITY PROJECTS
You may complete your Culminating Activity Project alone or in a group. There may be up to six people in a group. Submit the names of your group members to Miss Pesch as soon as you know them.
For Culminating Activities that involve original writing (Options 2-5): the finished product must include twenty lines per group member. If you choose to work alone, you will submit twenty lines; a group of two will submit forty lines, etc. Costume and blocking are required for Option 1; a written copy of your work is required for Options 2-5.
A’s will be earned by the students who demonstrate originality and creativity, and strive to present their original and creative ideas via careful editing of their written submissions. Likewise, a good work ethic and a mature, focused delivery will result in a high grade for oral presentations. The Culminating Activity is not “curved;” you are not competing against each other, but against yourself and the excellent standards that you know that you can reach. There is no shortage of A’s!
We will begin presenting our Culminating Activity Projects on Tuesday, April 11. This will conclude our Romeo and Juliet unit; if we finish early with the Culminating Activity Projects, then we will view the Baz Luhrmann William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet.
OPTION 1. Perform a portion of Romeo and Juliet for the class. Use costumes and props. Recite ten memorized lines or recite twenty lines with the book in hand. It is suggested that you memorize your lines (you may certainly memorize twenty lines!), as holding a book will interfere with your blocking (stage movements) and use of props and thus detract from the realism of the performance.
OPTION 2. Rewrite a Romeo and Juliet scene in verse or modern English (it may be a soliloquy), and overturn a major act of loyalty or disloyalty. I.e., write a scene in which Juliet decides to marry Paris, or a scene in which Romeo decides, though he is attracted to Juliet, to be loyal to his affection to Rosaline. Make it clear what the characters are thinking about loyalty. Consider also writing an epilogue for the Chorus that will tell us how the situation resolves.
OPTION 3. Write a scene in verse or prose.
*A soliloquy of the Nurse. How does she feel about having advised Juliet to marry Paris? Explore her motivations. Is she pleased with the advice that she gave Juliet? Is she indifferent? What does she think about her influence over Juliet’s loyalties?
You may complete your Culminating Activity Project alone or in a group. There may be up to six people in a group. Submit the names of your group members to Miss Pesch as soon as you know them.
For Culminating Activities that involve original writing (Options 2-5): the finished product must include twenty lines per group member. If you choose to work alone, you will submit twenty lines; a group of two will submit forty lines, etc. Costume and blocking are required for Option 1; a written copy of your work is required for Options 2-5.
A’s will be earned by the students who demonstrate originality and creativity, and strive to present their original and creative ideas via careful editing of their written submissions. Likewise, a good work ethic and a mature, focused delivery will result in a high grade for oral presentations. The Culminating Activity is not “curved;” you are not competing against each other, but against yourself and the excellent standards that you know that you can reach. There is no shortage of A’s!
We will begin presenting our Culminating Activity Projects on Tuesday, April 11. This will conclude our Romeo and Juliet unit; if we finish early with the Culminating Activity Projects, then we will view the Baz Luhrmann William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet.
OPTION 1. Perform a portion of Romeo and Juliet for the class. Use costumes and props. Recite ten memorized lines or recite twenty lines with the book in hand. It is suggested that you memorize your lines (you may certainly memorize twenty lines!), as holding a book will interfere with your blocking (stage movements) and use of props and thus detract from the realism of the performance.
OPTION 2. Rewrite a Romeo and Juliet scene in verse or modern English (it may be a soliloquy), and overturn a major act of loyalty or disloyalty. I.e., write a scene in which Juliet decides to marry Paris, or a scene in which Romeo decides, though he is attracted to Juliet, to be loyal to his affection to Rosaline. Make it clear what the characters are thinking about loyalty. Consider also writing an epilogue for the Chorus that will tell us how the situation resolves.
OPTION 3. Write a scene in verse or prose.
*A soliloquy of the Nurse. How does she feel about having advised Juliet to marry Paris? Explore her motivations. Is she pleased with the advice that she gave Juliet? Is she indifferent? What does she think about her influence over Juliet’s loyalties?
*A conversation between Juliet and Rosaline – they talk about Romeo. What do they say? Present Juliet and Rosaline as having two different perspectives on loyalty.
*A conversation between Romeo and Rosaline – he asks her to marry him, and she refuses. Rosaline vows loyalty to her church, and Romeo tries to persuade her to be most loyal to her heart or her family. Show how Romeo and Rosaline’s loyalties are similar and different.
OPTION 4. Rewrite the Prologue in verse, getting the message essentially the same (i.e., offering a précis of the events of the play), but placing an emphasis on loyalty. (**In keeping with the original play, your Prologue need only be 14 lines long. You may write more than 14 lines!**)
OPTION 5. Write a poem about loyalty. You may reference Romeo and Juliet, but you don’t have to. You may use rhyming verse or “blank” or “free” verse. Loyalty issues that you’ve faced in your own lives are good subjects for these poems. Consider the relationships between family, loyalty, and love.
OPTION 4. Rewrite the Prologue in verse, getting the message essentially the same (i.e., offering a précis of the events of the play), but placing an emphasis on loyalty. (**In keeping with the original play, your Prologue need only be 14 lines long. You may write more than 14 lines!**)
OPTION 5. Write a poem about loyalty. You may reference Romeo and Juliet, but you don’t have to. You may use rhyming verse or “blank” or “free” verse. Loyalty issues that you’ve faced in your own lives are good subjects for these poems. Consider the relationships between family, loyalty, and love.
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