| Performance Indicators:P.S. ELA-1 Language: Demonstrate command of the conventions of Standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
A. Notice and correct grammatical and mechanical errors in writing. P.S ELA-2 Reading Analysis: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain. A. Evaluate the relevant themes and synthesize how they are present in the novel in oral and written responses. P.S ELA-3 Reading Craft and Structure: Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is particularly effective, analyzing how style and content contribute to the power, persuasiveness or beauty of a text. A. Understand SOAPSTone: Speaker, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Subject, Tone |
Literary Terms Define the term and provide an example from the play for the following literary term:
Apostrophe (dramatic interpretation)
Questions Answer the questions according to the developments in the play
Scene 1:
1. At the beginning of the scene, why does Benvolio think that there will be a fight?
2. What does Tybalt call Romeo?
3. Why won’t Romeo fight Tybalt?
4. What does Mercutio think is the reason Romeo refuses to fight?
5. Why does Mercutio keep repeating, “A plague o’ both your houses”?
6. What does Romeo say that Juliet’s love has done to him?
7. When Benvolio relates to the Prince what happened, what does he say Romeo tried to do before Mercutio was killed?
8. What does Lady Capulet accuse Benvolio of? Why?
9. What is Romeo’s punishment for killing Tybalt?
Scene 2:
10. What piece of news has upset Juliet the most?
11. What does the nurse promise to do?
Scene 3:
12. Explain Romeo’s reaction to the news of his banishment.
13. What argument does Friar Laurence use to prevent Romeo from killing himself?
Scene 4:
14. What does Capulet tell his wife to say to Juliet?
Scene 5:
15. As Romeo is preparing to leave Juliet, what argument does she use to convince him to stay?
16. Later, why does Juliet think Romeo should leave?
17. When Lady Capulet threatens to send someone to Mantua to poison Romeo, what does Juliet say?
18. After Lady Capulet breaks the news about Paris, what is Juliet’s response?
19. If Juliet’s mother does not arrange to delay the marriage, what will Juliet do?
20. How does Juliet’s attitude toward the nurse change?
21. What “scheme” does Juliet devise to get rid of the nurse and to get out of the house?
Quotes Indicate who is expressing the indicated quote, what scene the quote is from and the significance of the quote according to the play.
“Romeo, the love I bear thee can afford no better term than this: thou art a villain.”
“Ay ay a scratch a scratch.”
“O! I am fortunes fool!”