Today students learned that Romeo and Juliet is actually a much older story than you’d think. It originated with Ovid’s Metamorphoses in around 8 A.D. and continued to change in form until Shakespeare wrote his version in around 1591. We even have new versions today (Romiette and Julio, for example).
1. Students turned in any extra sheets from their music video reviews.
2. Reflection on Stories through the Ages (download if absent). What kinds of teenage love stories do we have today? How do they usually end?
3. Share. We discussed similarities between typical teenage love stories and wrote up those similarities on the board, checking off which also appear in Romeo and Juliet.
4. Skits. Each group read a different source text for Romeo and Juliet and then presented a skit version of that story to the class. Read the stories here: Source Stories. Read about the stories here if you were absent: Romeo and Juliet: Something Borrowed, Something New
HW: If in Honors, get a paperback copy of Romeo and Juliet by Friday if you don’t want to lug around a textbook. I recommend the Yale Shakespeare, the Barnes and Noble Shakespeare, or the Arden Shakespeare. For websites, if you have an eReader or iPhone you want to read from, Shakespeare Navigators is the best. Otherwise, no homework.
ALEXA GARVOILLE 