Category: Reading
Hugo’s Dramatic Monologue. Friar Lawrence
As part of our study of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the students learned and performed a soliloquy or dramatic monologue from the play. Here’s an example of this work by Hugo Darby.
Assessment: “I am Fortune’s Fool” – Fate and Free Will in Romeo and Juliet
A culmination of our longitudinal study of the action of fate in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. This collection of board captures records the students’ observations and supports the writing of a literary essay expanding on their ideas of the action of fate in the play and how it is revealed by Shakespeare via the means of Plot, Language, Dialogue, Structure and Dramatic Devices.
Romeo and Juliet – Soliloquy Schedule
Everyone in the class is presenting a soliloquy that they’ve learned by heart live to class. Each period for the next fortnight will include three of these, according to the following schedule.
Romeo and Juliet, Act 1, Scene 3: Metaphor
We explore Shakespeare’s use of metaphor when having Lady Capulet describe Paris in Act 1 Scene 3 of Romeo and Juliet.
Romeo and Juliet Modernisation
Your homework is to complete your modernisation of the script ready for performance next English period. The Script