Literature Reader Romeo and Juliet

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This lesson contains 33 slides, with interactive quizzes, text slides and 7 videos.

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Young blood: Romeo and Juliet

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Lesson aim
- Introduction to Shakespeare
- Romeo & Juliet - Synopsis
- Task 2 - Balcony scene
- Task 3 - Apothecary scene
- Task 4  - Dramatic Irony
- Task 5 - Shakespeare's idiom
- Task 6 - Star cross'd
- Task 7 - Your song!

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What can you expect about Literature in the test in TW 1?
You should ...:
  • ... be able to explain what the English Renaissance was.
  • ... be able to explain what Dramatic Irony is.
  • ... be able to explain what Interpretation is.
  • ... know the basic storyline of Romeo & Juliet

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What do you know about Shakespeare?

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Write down in English what you know about Shakespeare.

Slide 5 - Open question

Slide 6 - Video

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Slide 7 - Video

00:46
What records have historians found relating to Shakespeare?
A
His birth certificate
B
His marriage certificate
C
His death certificate
D
His children's birth certificates

Slide 8 - Quiz

01:35
Why is Shakespeare considered to be a shrewd businessman
A
He was the first playwright to copywrite his works
B
He built London's biggest amphitheatre.
C
He paid his actor's set wages
D
He acted in his own plays to save money.

Slide 9 - Quiz

03:22
Why did Shakespeare write many more sonnets later in his career?
A
The plague meant the theatres were closed
B
He ran out of ideas for plays.
C
His wife passed away and he poured his grief into his work
D
They made him more money than running the plays

Slide 10 - Quiz

04:38
Why was there a theory that Shakespeare did not write his works?
A
He did not attend higher education
B
A number of his contemporaries claimed they wrote his work under a pseudonym.
C
There few details about his life
D
His plays were similar to his contemporaries work

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English Renaissance 1500-1670
During the 16th century, many English playwrights and
poets used Italian stories and poetry as an inspiration.
The term Renaissance means ‘rebirth’. Before this period,
during the Middle Ages, writers used to focus on the
absolute power of God. The classical Greek and Roman
stories were strictly forbidden as sources of inspiration.
Huge cultural shifts occurred in Elizabethan England. The
Catholic Church became less powerful and people became
more tolerant.
Erasmus, a Dutch Renaissance humanist, had already
published books about this way of thinking at the very
beginning of the 16th century. In England, William
Shakespeare started to create more ‘human’ characters in
his plays and was the first writer to bring these
Renaissance characters into the theatres.

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What do you know about Romeo and Juliet?

Slide 13 - Mind map

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Romeo and Juliet
In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare pictured two warring families from Verona in the north of Italy; the Montagues and the Capulets. It is the year of 1302. Teenagers Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet met at a party and fell in love. Because of a family feud they had to meet in secret. In Verona, these two important families fought over religion and politics: the Montagues supported the Holy Roman Emperor and the Capulets supported the Holy Pope. In 16th century England people were also divided by religion and politics: Catholicism and Protestantism. Religion was very important and people were prepared to die for their beliefs. Hiding your religion was part of everyday life, because it was not always safe to make your beliefs known. Many spectators who watched Romeo and Juliet at the Globe Theatre would have been familiar with warring families.

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Slide 16 - Video

The Balcony Scene

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Slide 18 - Video

The famous balcony scene

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What it really looks like!

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Task 2
Now go to your English studyplanner in  Magister.me.

Click on Unit 1 - Young Blood and try 'Opdracht 2' about the balcony scene.

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But what happens next
and how it ends ...
... spoiler alert!

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Slide 23 - Video

Apothecary scene
In the fifth act Romeo, who is banned from Verona after he ended up killing a Capulet named Tybalt, is waiting for news. Juliet was supposed to marry Paris, another Capulet, but had already married Romeo in secret, with help from friar Laurence. She has taken a sleeping potion to avoid the forced marriage. Now Balthasar, Romeo’s servant, delivers the news that Juliet’s ‘body sleeps’. Tragically, Romeo thinks Juliet is dead. He decides to buy poison.

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Now go to Magister.me > Young Blood and try 'Opdracht 3' about this scene

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Slide 27 - Video

Slide 28 - Video

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Which words did shakespeare invent? 
Bandit
Critic
Lonely
Swagger
Unreal
Uncomfortable
Puke
Hurry
Eyeball
Bedazzle

Slide 30 - Drag question

Match the Dutch translations to these famous sayings invented by Shakespeare!
In een notendop
Doet er niet toe
Dwaalspoor
Te veel van het goede
Neither here nor there
Wild goose chase
Too much of a good thing
In a nutshell

Slide 31 - Drag question

Tasks 4 and 5
Now go to your English studyplanner in  Magister.me.

Click on Unit 1 - Young Blood and try 'Opdracht' 4, 5 and 6 about Dramatic Irony, Shakespeare's words and Interpretation.

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Now find your own favourite (love) song and copy a part of the lyrics. Use Shmoop to translate these lyrics into Shakespearean English.

Remember it so you can post it on the next slide

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