Download Romeo and Juliet - Act I: Scene 1 Passages

Student__________________________________________ Section B SHAKESPEARE READING DO NOW
Continue to read Romeo and Juliet in the textbook , this time not aloud. This begins on page 307. Read in the textbook, not just the words on this packet.
As you read, answer the questions in the space below. Passages are marked for Act:Scene:Lines.
QUESTIONS
ROMEO
O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear;
Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!
So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows,
As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.
The measure done, I'll watch her place of stand,
And, touching hers, make blessed my rude hand.
Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight!
For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.
(I:5:45-54)
Find three things Romeo compares Juliet to to show how
beautiful she is.
What does Shakespeare mean by “ne’er” in line 54?
Why does he write it that way?
TYBALT
This, by his voice, should be a Montague.
Fetch me my rapier, boy. What dares the slave
Come hither, covered with an antic face,
To fleer and scorn at our solemnity?
Now, by the stock and honour of my kin,
To strike him dead, I hold it not a sin.
(I:5:55-60)
In this passage from textbook page 307, where Tybalt
overhears Romeo talking and recognizes his voice, underline
the sentence that shows that Tybalt sends a servant to get his
sword.
Draw an arrow from this pencil icon to the line that shows
Tybalt feeling that Romeo is at the party to mock (and thus
disrespect) the Capulets.
Draw an arrow from this pencil icon to the line that shows
what Tybalt will probably do with his sword (rapier) once he
has it.
Act I: End of Scene 5 Activity Packet
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You should be reading all the lines in the textbook, not just reading the passages on this sheet.
CAPULET: Content thee, gentle coz, let him alone;
He bears him like a portly gentleman;
And, to say truth, Verona brags of him
To be a virtuous and well-governed youth:
I would not for the wealth of all the town
Here in my house do him disparagement:
Therefore be patient, take no note of him:
It is my will, the which if thou respect,
Show a fair presence and put off these frowns,
And ill-beseeming semblance for a feast.
Capulet does not want Tybalt to disrupt his party.
Draw an arrow from this pencil icon to the words that
show Capulet does not want to insult Romeo.
TYBALT: ...I’ll not endure him.
CAPULET He shall be endured:
What, goodman boy! I say, he shall: go to;
Am I the master here, or you? go to.
You'll not endure him! God shall mend my soul!
You'll make a mutiny among my guests!...
You are a saucy boy...
Be quiet, or... For shame!
I'll make you quiet.
ROMEO
If I profane with my unworthiest hand
This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this:
My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.
(I:5:94-97)
At the end of Capulet’s angry reaction to Tybalt, as you see
on page 308, he actually, in lines 86 to 89, keeps switching
between yelling angrily at Tybalt and turning to encourage
the dancing guests.
Draw an arrow from this pencil icon to the words that
show what the last angry thing is Capulet threatens to Tybalt.
To what does Romeo compare Juliet (what does he call her),
to show that he worships her?
Pilgrim comes from the same root as the word pilgrimage,
which is a journey to a religious goal. (For example, Muslims
are instructed by their religion to make a pilgrimage to holy
Mecca at least once in their lifetimes.) What part of Romeo’s
body does he say are pilgrims, and where (specifically) do
you think he wants them to make a pilgrimage to?
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ROMEO
Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take.
Thus from my lips, by yours, my sin is purged.
JULIET
Then have my lips the sin that they have took.
ROMEO
Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged!
Give me my sin again. (Kiss)
According to line 108, what will purify Romeo’s sin? (Be
careful of the inversions in the line; you might have to switch
some word order to figure it out.)
According to line 109, after Romeo kisses her, what has
gotten on her lips?
(I:5:107-111)
In the box at the left, write the sentence from page 309 that
shows the nurse commenting that whoever marries Juliet will
get rich.
In the box at the left, write the sentence from page 310 that
shows Juliet sends the nurse to find out who the guy was that
Juliet was just kissing.
In the box at the left, write the sentence from page 310 that
shows Juliet wants to marry Romeo, and would rather die
than not be with him.
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SHAKESPEARE READING DO NOW for ACT II:SCENES 1 AND 2.
Continue to read Romeo and Juliet in the textbook, beginning on page 313 , but not aloud.
As you read, answer the questions in the space below. Most quoted passages are marked for Act:Scene:Lines.
QUESTIONS
In the box at the left, write the line from the prologue to Act II
that shows Romeo’s new love does love him back (unlike
Rosaline did).
Into the box at the left, copy the two lines from the prologue
that show Shakespeare using an accent mark to instruct the
actor to say a word differently than it would normally be
pronounced.
For each of the two lines you copied, write in parentheses how
many SYLLABLES there are in the line.
In this scene, Shakespeare uses the words “go forward” to
mean, “go away from here.”
Into the box at the left, copy the sentence from page 313 that
shows Romeo is looking up at Juliet’s bedroom and feels the
room contains his loved one.
On page 313, Benvolio and Mercutio are looking for Romeo,
so Romeo steps upstage into darkness to hide where he can’t
be seen by them.
When Romeo doesn’t answer Mercutio’s calls and silliness
(“he heareth not, he stirreth not”), Mercutio says he will have
to conjure (use magic words) to lure him out.
Into the box at the left, copy from page 313 the phrase he then
uses to try to lure Romeo.
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Pick three more things Mercutio uses on page 314 to try to lure
Romeo, and write each in the box at the left.
Into the box at the left, copy the sentence that Romeo says after
Mercutio and Benvolio leave and Romeo steps back downstage
so the audience can see him.
Then underline the three-word part of that sentence that shows
Romeo feels that Mercutio was making jokes about Romeo’s
emotional pain.
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[JULIET appears above, on a balcony outside her bedroom. She does not see
Romeo or hear him speaking. He is speaking his thoughts for the audience.]
ROMEO:
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief,
That thou her maid art far more fair than she:
Be not her maid, since she is envious;
Her vestal livery is but sick and green
And none but fools do wear it; cast it off.
It is my lady, O, it is my love!
O, that she knew she were!
She speaks yet she says nothing: what of that?
Her eye discourses; I will answer it.
I am too bold, 'tis not to me she speaks:
Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven,
Having some business, do entreat her eyes
To twinkle in their spheres till they return.
What if her eyes were there, they in her head?
The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars,
As daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven
3
Underline in lines 3 and 4, the two different
things (two different words) to which Romeo
compares Juliet, each a very positive
comparison.
10
Underline the two word phrase that shows
Juliet must have made a sound in the middle of
this speech of Romeo’s.
15
Underline each of the six words from lines 15
to 22 that has anything to do with light or
brightness.
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Would through the airy region stream so bright
That birds would sing and think it were not night.
See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand!
O, that I were a glove upon that hand,
That I might touch that cheek!
(II:2:3-26 )
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You should be reading all the lines in the textbook, not just reading the passages on this sheet.
QUESTIONS
JULIET :
O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,
And I'll no longer be a Capulet.
ROMEO [Aside]
Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this?
JULIET : 'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What's Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo called,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name,
And for that name which is no part of thee
Take all myself.
ROMEO:
I take thee at thy word:
Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized;
Henceforth I never will be Romeo.
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In the space below, explain what Juliet means by what she says
in line 34.
Consider what Juliet says in lines 39 to 48 to further figure out
what Juliet’s topic is here.
That will allow you to infer what “doff” (in line 48) probably
means. Write two different possible synonyms for “doff” here.
Copy the phrase from page 316 that shows Juliet suddenly
knows Romeo is there (because in the lines at left he actually
speaks TO her).
(II:2:34-52)
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QUESTIONS
Into the box at the left,
copy the pair of lines from
page 316 that shows it is
not safe for Romeo to be at
that place.
JULIET:
Underline the phrase that shows what Romeo says he used to
How camest thou hither, tell me, and wherefore?
get over the walls of the Capulet orchard.
The orchard walls are high and hard to climb...
ROMEO:
With love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls;
For stony limits cannot hold love out,
And what love can do that dares love attempt;
Therefore thy kinsmen are no stop to me.
JULIET: If they do see thee, they will murder thee.
ROMEO: Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye
Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet,
And I am proof against their enmity.
(II:2:63-74)
JULIET: By whose direction found’st thou out this place?
According to what Romeo says on page 317, what gave
him directions to the property outside Juliet’s bedroom?
(answer is one word)
JULIET:... Dost thou love me? I know thou wilt say “Ay,”
And I will take thy word: yet if thou swear'st,
Thou mayst prove false; at lovers' perjuries
Then say, Jove laughs. O gentle Romeo,
If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully:
Or if thou think'st I am too quickly won,
I'll frown and be perverse an say thee nay,
So thou wilt woo...
(II:2:91-98)
Jove is a Roman name for Zeus. What story do you remember
from mythology that explains what Shakespeare is making an
allusion to when he has Juliet say lines 93-94? (Hint: It
involves Hephaestus and a net.)
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ROMEO Lady, by yonder blessed moon I swear
That tips with silver all these fruit-tree tops-JULIET:
O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon,
That monthly changes in her circled orb,
Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.
ROMEO What shall I swear by?
JULIET Do not swear at all;
Or, if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self,
Which is the god of my idolatry,
And I'll believe thee.
ROMEO If my heart's dear love-JULIET Well, do not swear: although I joy in thee,
I have no joy of this contract to-night:
It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden;
Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be
Ere one can say 'It lightens.' Sweet, good night!
This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath,
May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.
Good night, good night! as sweet repose and rest
Come to thy heart as that within my breast!
ROMEO: O, wilt thou leave me so unsatisfied?
JULIET What satisfaction canst thou have to-night?
ROMEO:The exchange of thy love's faithful vow for
mine.
JULIET I gave thee mine before thou didst request it:
And yet I would it were to give again.
(II:2:108-130)
At first, what object does Romeo say he will swear on to
pledge his love for Juliet?
What does Juliet say she prefers that swear on?
What “contract” could Juliet be referring to in line 118?
Romeo, ten lines after that, also makes a reference to a similar
idea. Underline at the left what he says that could be
interpreted as referring to marriage.
When Juliet exits on page 318 (because the nurse is calling
her), sentence shows her telling Romeo to wait because she
will come back? (Copy that sentence into the box at left.)
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After Juliet comes back in, the gives Romeo instructions. What
does she tell Romeo to do the next day if he decides he wants
to marry her?
In the box at left, write words from the play that are evidence
of what you wrote above.
JULIET :
'Tis almost morning; I would have thee gone:
And yet no further than a wanton's bird;
Who lets it hop a little from her hand,
Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves,
And with a silk thread plucks it back again,
So loving-jealous of his liberty.
Finish reading the scene. Then, in the box at left, underline the
sentence from page 320 that shows where Romeo plans to go
next.
ROMEO I would I were thy bird.
Shakespeare uses the word “would” to mean the verb “wish.”
Write the word “would” and that Shakespearean definition on
your pink Shakespeare words page in the Reading section of
your binder.
JULIET Sweet, so would I:
Yet I should kill thee with much cherishing.
Good night, good night! parting is such
sweet sorrow,
That I shall say good night till it be morrow.
[Exits]
ROMEO Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy
breast!
Would I were sleep and peace, so sweet to rest!
Hence will I to my ghostly father's cell,
His help to crave, and my dear hap to tell.
(II:2:177-190)
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