Romeo and Juliet - Lesson 3 (WhatsApp Conversation)

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• Middelbare school
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• Leerjaar 2

Assignment 2: WhatsApp conversation: 

Modern people communicate in a variety of ways, WhatsApp being one of them. Imagine ordinary people, including the characters in Romeo and Juliet, were able to use WhatsApp in Shakespeare's days. What would they talk about? Would they use smileys? What abbreviations would they use? Would they use WhatsApp for gossip or arguments? Use your imagination in this assignment to create a WhatsApp conversation between two characters from the story!

Criteria:

Choose two characters from the story. Clearly indicate which two characters are messaging. 

• Explain the situation in short.
• Use at least 16 chat bubbles with text in total
• Include both text and emojis
• Save your document as PDF-file

Hand in your document through Google Classroom.

If you worked in pairs, please can you both hand in the WhatsApp Conversation so I can see that everyone is participating.

It doesn't have to be romantic!

Think about conflict situations!

• the two warring families: Montagues and the Capulets.
• between Tybalt and Romeo.
• conflict between Juliet and her father

Think about the family relationships

In Romeo and Juliet the Capulet and Montague families are presented as:

similar to each other

warring against each other

apologetic and repenting for their past behaviour

NURSE

Thou wast the prettiest babe that e'er I nursed.

An I might live to see thee married once,

I have my wish.

Act 1 Scene 3