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Good Day to thee thou
clouted tickle-brained
baggage!
It’s Tuesday. We are
almost ready for the
play… woohoo!
Today’s Classroom Learning
Objectives
 Students will be able to write 5 lines in
response to a prompt.
 Students will write two new words in their
study guide composing an original
sentence for each word and will identify
meaning, antonyms, and synonyms for
each word.
 Students will identify the terms soliloquy,
aside, and stage terminology as it relates
to Romeo and Juliet.
Do Now
Watch the video clip from the
play Macbeth. Would you have
like to see a play such as this
in the Elizabethan period, why
or why not?
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 New Vocabulary Unit
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 Figurative Language Assignment
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Today’s Classroom Learning
Objectives
 Students will be able to write 5 lines in
response to a prompt.
 Students will write two new words in their
study guide composing an original
sentence for each word and will identify
meaning, antonyms, and synonyms for
each word.
 Students will identify the terms soliloquy,
aside, and stage terminology as it relates
to Romeo and Juliet.
Console – (v.) to comfort; (n.) keyboard of an
organ, a control panel for an
electrical device
Synonyms – (v.) soothe, solace, alleviate
Antonyms – (v.) distress, torment, vex
Dilate – (v.) to make or become larger or
wider; to expand upon
Synonyms – enlarge, expand, swell, prolong
Antonyms – contract, compress, constrict
Do Now
Watch the video clip from the
play Macbeth. Would you have
like to see a play such as this
in the Elizabethan period, why
or why not?
Literary Terms- On the Stage
Act- 1. Subdivision of a play
2. Chapters in a book
Scene- 1. Subdivision of the act
2. Similar to textbook
sections
Props- stage furnishings that add
reality to the play
Literary Terms- On the Stage
Dialogue- conversation between two or
more characters
Soliloquy- A dramatic speech given by a
character revealing his or her thoughts
without addressing a specific listener.
Aside- a part of an actor's lines supposedly
not heard by others on the stage and
intended only for the audience
Literary Terms- On the Stage
Stage Right- Right Side of the Stage from
actor’s point of view
Stage Left- left side of the stage from the
actor’s point of view
Upstage- 1. Back part of the stage
2. area of the stage farthest from
the footlights
Literary Terms – On the Stage
Downstage- 1. nearest the audience
2. area of the stage away from
the footlights
Audience- people watching the play
Literary Terms- On the Stage
Today’s Classroom Learning
Objectives
 Students will be able to write 5 lines in
response to a prompt.
 Students will write two new words in their
study guide composing an original
sentence for each word and will identify
meaning, antonyms, and synonyms for
each word.
 Students will identify the terms soliloquy,
aside, and stage terminology as it relates
to Romeo and Juliet.
Shakespeare’s Plays
Tragedies- 1. roots in greek tragedy
involving a hero, 2. often with a fatal
flaw (pride, obsession), 3. leads to
the hero’s death
Comedies - On the note sheet
Histories – Sometimes considered
Tudor propaganda
Freytag’s Pyramid
Plot Elements
- this is something we have talked about
constantly
 Without a plot there is no….
- ??????
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Plot Progression
Exposition – Romeo and Juliet
Setting- Includes time & place
Situation- Explanation of the play or piece of
literature
Characters: Capulets & Montagues,
servants, Townspeople within the city of
fair Verona (Italy)
Plot Progression
Rising Action
Series of events
leading to a high
point of action
Falling Action
Series of events
following the climax
Resolution
Final revelation or
Inciting Incident
outcome of a tragedy
Initiates action of the
Dénouement
play
any remaining secrets,
Climax
questions or mysteries
after the resolution
Highest point of the
action in the play
Today’s Classroom Learning
Objectives
 Students will be able to write 5 lines in
response to a prompt.
 Students will write two new words in their
study guide composing an original
sentence for each word and will identify
meaning, antonyms, and synonyms for
each word.
 Students will identify the terms soliloquy,
aside, and stage terminology as it relates
to Romeo and Juliet.