DRAMA UNIT PLAN
Embark on a timeless journey with your students into the world of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, exploring the enduring tale of two star-crossed lovers!
By William Shakespeare
ROMEO
Juliet
You want ready-to-use materials that require no prep but still engage your students in rigorous, standards-based content and highly engaging creative activities.
You are an English language arts teacher who will be teaching this play.
who this unit plan is for.
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SO, WHAT'S INCLUDED IN THE UNIT PLAN?
1. INTRODUctory presentation
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The slideshow will hook students into reading the play immediately, spark discussion, and provide students with useful information and practical context to prepare them to read.
Start the Romeo and Juliet unit plan with this 21-slide interactive PowerPoint presentation that includes pre-reading discussion questions, an interactive class activity, a biography of William Shakespeare, a fun review quiz, and context and background information on the play.
2. CLASSROOM POSTERS
This Romeo and Juliet poster display includes nine creative and funny posters to hook students into their reading of Romeo and Juliet!
This display comes with nine eye-catching posters, each with a funny statement related to the plot that allows students to connect with the play. There is also a title display banner to showcase the posters underneath that looks great on a classroom bulletin board.
3. Chapter Summaries
These summary cards are an excellent classroom reference for both teacher and student. The 24 printable act and scene summary cards outline the most important plot moments from Romeo and Juliet organized by scene.
Simply print and cut out the cards, and you have a resource available that can be used as a tool for struggling readers, as a quick way to find plot moments, as a tool to find text evidence during essay writing, or as a way to check student comprehension.
4. READING QUIZZES
Use these five reading quizzes to assess student comprehension of the play. Each quiz includes six multiple-choice questions and two important quotes that students must respond to by sharing context. For each quote, students are required to explain what is happening at that point in the plot with any relevant information.
Each quiz covers one act and includes a detailed answer key, which makes for easy grading or class review.
5. VIDEO JOURNALs
Help your students make connections to the play with these video journals. Students will watch a short video clip on YouTube related to a topic, theme, or idea presented in each act (there are ten videos in total - 2 videos per act). A related journal prompt is included, and students share their thoughts and ideas in writing. The videos are not specific to the play, but they relate in a way that allows students to make a text-to-self or text-to-world connection. Teachers should always preview videos to ensure they are appropriate for their particular students.
6. VOCABULARY
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This resource equips students with the skills to decipher the meaning of unfamiliar words in context. It supports students in improving their ability to use context clues to determine the meanings of new words as they are used within Romeo and Juliet. There is a vocabulary booklet organized by acts where students read the new word in a quote from the play and infer its meaning. Then, they look up the definition to see if they were correct. Presentation slides are also provided for easy class review or grading.
7. READING QUESTIONS
Help your students examine the play more closely with these reading questions. Organized by act and scene, these questions will check your students' comprehension and challenge them to analyze literary elements in Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. This ready-to-use resource also includes a 74-slide PowerPoint presentation to review the answers with students. The answers are detailed and have text evidence from Romeo and Juliet for support.
8. ANALYSIS NOTES
This resource will help you review the most important literary devices in Shakespeare's most famous play! This 30-slide PowerPoint presentation shares some of the most important literary elements in the play organized by act and scene. The notes address characterization, theme, setting, and much more!
The notes can be used for students to copy, or they can be used as discussion starters. After using this presentation, your students will have a much deeper understanding of Romeo and Juliet.
9. ACTIVITIES & Assignments
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14 ready-to-use interactive activities or assignments to bring your unit for Romeo and Juliet to life. Students will absolutely love these activities that will allow them to form deeper connections with their own lives and the world around them, analyze characters, understand the plot, and immerse themselves in the text.
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9. ACTIVITIES & ASSIGNMENTS
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14 ready-to-use interactive activities or assignments to bring your unit for Romeo and Juliet to life. Students will absolutely love these activities that will allow them to form deeper connections with their own lives and the world around them, analyze characters, understand the plot, and immerse themselves in the text.
Using the long-standing conflict between the Montagues and Capulet families as inspiration, you will divide your class into two houses: The Montagues and The Capulets. After each act, the “families” will participate in activities where they can get points for their house in competition for a prize of the teacher’s choosing. If you choose to use this optional framework for the unit, there is an included slideshow that introduces the Family Feuds. There are also slides with poems and instructions that can be used before each act to hook students into the specific challenges. There is also a tally sheet to keep track of the points after each activity and a family-crest-making activity that students can complete to build team and family pride. This is optional in the unit.
Family Feuds: Montagues vs. Capulets
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9. ACTIVITIES & ASSIGNMENTS
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14 ready-to-use interactive activities or assignments to bring your unit for Romeo and Juliet to life. Students will absolutely love these activities that will allow them to form deeper connections with their own lives and the world around them, analyze characters, understand the plot, and immerse themselves in the text.
In this assignment, students are prompted to contemplate their ideal life partner and contrast it with the hypothetical partner their parents might select for them. This thought-provoking exercise is designed to pique students' interest in Shakespeare's tragic tale, fostering discussion and setting the stage for a deeper
exploration of the play's themes and characters.
The Perfect Partner
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9. ACTIVITIES & ASSIGNMENTS
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14 ready-to-use interactive activities or assignments to bring your unit for Romeo and Juliet to life. Students will absolutely love these activities that will allow them to form deeper connections with their own lives and the world around them, analyze characters, understand the plot, and immerse themselves in the text.
Students will take a step back in time and reimagine the iconic
prologue of the play in modern English with a ready-to-use, eye-
catching graphic organizer that includes the original text and
a space for students to rewrite a modern translation.
Prologue Paraphrase
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9. ACTIVITIES & ASSIGNMENTS
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14 ready-to-use interactive activities or assignments to bring your unit for Romeo and Juliet to life. Students will absolutely love these activities that will allow them to form deeper connections with their own lives and the world around them, analyze characters, understand the plot, and immerse themselves in the text.
Students will delve into Act 1 to decode and modernize the insults, gaining insights into how Shakespeare crafted his cutting words. The highlight of the day? A spirited classroom duel between Montagues and Capulets, where students can unleash their newfound wit in a friendly war of words. This Romeo and Juliet activity promises to engage even the most reluctant learners and equip them with a playful understanding of Shakespeare's language.
Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare Insult Battle
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9. ACTIVITIES & ASSIGNMENTS
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14 ready-to-use interactive activities or assignments to bring your unit for Romeo and Juliet to life. Students will absolutely love these activities that will allow them to form deeper connections with their own lives and the world around them, analyze characters, understand the plot, and immerse themselves in the text.
In this activity, students will reimagine the classic balcony scene exchange between Romeo and Juliet using the format of text messaging. By drawing on the play's original text evidence, they'll craft a modern text dialogue between
the star-crossed lovers for the digital age.
Star-Crossed Texting
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9. ACTIVITIES & ASSIGNMENTS
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14 ready-to-use interactive activities or assignments to bring your unit for Romeo and Juliet to life. Students will absolutely love these activities that will allow them to form deeper connections with their own lives and the world around them, analyze characters, understand the plot, and immerse themselves in the text.
In the play, the young lovers' wedding is an intimate and secret affair, hidden from the prying eyes of their feuding families. With this activity, students will imagine a Verona where their union was a public celebration attended by various characters from the play. After gaining some context on wedding speeches, students will write and present wedding speeches of their own from the perspective of various characters in the play at an immersive classroom wedding.
Romeo and Juliet Classroom Wedding
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9. ACTIVITIES & ASSIGNMENTS
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14 ready-to-use interactive activities or assignments to bring your unit for Romeo and Juliet to life. Students will absolutely love these activities that will allow them to form deeper connections with their own lives and the world around them, analyze characters, understand the plot, and immerse themselves in the text.
Engage your students in a poetry slam by teaching them Shakespearean sonnet writing and applying it to the play with the included assignments, handouts, and graphic organizers. With instruction on iambic pentameter, rhyme scheme, and what to include in each of the quatrains and final
couplet, students will be absolutely prepared to start writing their
poems about Romeo and Juliet.
Romeo and Juliet Sonnet Slam
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9. ACTIVITIES & ASSIGNMENTS
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14 ready-to-use interactive activities or assignments to bring your unit for Romeo and Juliet to life. Students will absolutely love these activities that will allow them to form deeper connections with their own lives and the world around them, analyze characters, understand the plot, and immerse themselves in the text.
Students will analyze Juliet's soliloquy in Act 4, Scene 3, just before she drinks
the fateful potion. They will then respond to a series of multiple-choice analysis questions that will test their comprehension and critical thinking. When they have all the answers correct, they will decipher the letters associated with the correct answers to reveal a mystery word related to the scene!
Juliet Soliloquy Mystery Word
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9. ACTIVITIES & ASSIGNMENTS
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14 ready-to-use interactive activities or assignments to bring your unit for Romeo and Juliet to life. Students will absolutely love these activities that will allow them to form deeper connections with their own lives and the world around them, analyze characters, understand the plot, and immerse themselves in the text.
Students will turn to the play to form a conclusion about what prevalent symbols like roses, stars, masks, fire and more represent in the text. They
will also provide text evidence in the form of a quote to support their choice. This assignment also comes with a detailed answer key that
will allow for easy class review or grading.
Romeo and Juliet Symbolism Assignment
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9. ACTIVITIES & ASSIGNMENTS
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14 ready-to-use interactive activities or assignments to bring your unit for Romeo and Juliet to life. Students will absolutely love these activities that will allow them to form deeper connections with their own lives and the world around them, analyze characters, understand the plot, and immerse themselves in the text.
A red flag is a warning sign of concerning behavior or characteristics that may indicate potential issues or problems in a relationship. Although Romeo is often hailed as a romantic figure, this resource invites students to explore a different facet of his character. Students will delve into the red flags that emerge throughout the story about Romeo and decide if they would recommend him as a potential partner for someone they know!
Romeo's Red Flags Character Assignment
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9. ACTIVITIES & ASSIGNMENTS
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14 ready-to-use interactive activities or assignments to bring your unit for Romeo and Juliet to life. Students will absolutely love these activities that will allow them to form deeper connections with their own lives and the world around them, analyze characters, understand the plot, and immerse themselves in the text.
What's remarkable about this play is that despite its wealth of events, the entire story unfolds within an astonishingly brief five-day period. Students will move small paper strips with key plot moments from the play to their correct days. Once they have accurately sequenced the events, a mystery phrase will be revealed! This alternative to the plot diagram assignment will hook your students and allow them to fully understand the plot's events.
Romeo and Juliet Plot Calendar Activity
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9. ACTIVITIES & ASSIGNMENTS
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14 ready-to-use interactive activities or assignments to bring your unit for Romeo and Juliet to life. Students will absolutely love these activities that will allow them to form deeper connections with their own lives and the world around them, analyze characters, understand the plot, and immerse themselves in the text.
This ready-to-use activity engages students in a classroom mock trial
to find a verdict as to whether or not Friar Lawrence should be held responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. After learning context about the courtroom trial, students will participate in a mock trial to defend or prosecute Friar Lawrence. This resource has absolutely everything you need to facilitate the mock trial so all your students are engaged.
Friar Lawrence Mock Trial
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9. ACTIVITIES & ASSIGNMENTS
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14 ready-to-use interactive activities or assignments to bring your unit for Romeo and Juliet to life. Students will absolutely love these activities that will allow them to form deeper connections with their own lives and the world around them, analyze characters, understand the plot, and immerse themselves in the text.
Students will be given the opportunity to create a newspaper called "The Verona Times", in which they act as journalists living in Romeo and Juliet's world. This project is an excellent final assessment for a unit on the play with the bonus of exposing students to some of the skills and terms used in journalism.
Romeo and Juliet Newspaper Final Project
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