Romeo & Juliet: Analyzing Staging in Act 2 - Beginning of Balcony Scene

St Valentine 2014 (4 ESO)
One of the most famous lovers of all time are Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare wrote about them centuries ago, but their love story is eternal.
The many different adaptations that has been made of this play prove it.
In the video below, you can watch some of them. All of them show the beginning of the Balcony Scene (Act 2 Scene 2), also perhaps the most famous one from the play.

I hope you LOVE it!

Can you do these activities?

Romeo and Juliet (Act 2, Scene 2 Balcony Scene )

Juliet.

O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore (a) art thou Romeo?

Deny thy ________¹ 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 _______² more, or shall I speak

at this?

Juliet.

'Tis but thy name that is my enemy

Thou art thyself, though not a Montague. (b)

What's Montague? It is nor _______³, nor _______⁴,

Nor _______⁵, nor _______⁶, 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 call'd,

Retain that dear perfection which he owes (c)

Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name, (d)

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 baptis'd;

Henceforth I never will be Romeo.

Juliet.

What man art thou that, thus bescreened in night,

So stumblest on my councel? (e)

Romeo.

By a name

I know not how to tell thee who I am:

My name, dear saint, is hateful to myself,

Because it is an enemy to thee.

Had I it _______⁷, I would tear the _______⁸.

why (a)

But only your name is my enemy; you would be yourself even if you had some other name. (b)

owns (c)

discard your name (of Montague). (d)

Discover my secret. (e)

A.- Complete the text with these cues.

1. a member of the family. 7. read and …

2. See, smell, taste, feel and …. 8. Sentences are a group of … (sing.)

3-6 Parts of the body

B.- The words in bold were used in Shakespeare time, but not today. Can you translate them to modern English?

C.- This is one of the most famous lines of all times. Change the underline words to make other meaningful lines.

What's in a name? That which we call a rose

By any other name would smell as sweet;

D.- Write 5 sentences comparing the 5 scenes you have seen. You can use some of these adjectives:

modern / old-fashioned // beautiful / handsome / ugly // young / old // static / dynamic // believable / unbelievable / good / bad // natural / artificial...

Examples: Scene 1 is more old-fashioned than the rest.

The best actor is Romeo in Scene 1.

E.- Write 4 sentences with the Connectors of Contrast that we have studied (but / although / however / on the one hand / on the other hand) to give your opinion.

Examples: I liked scene 1 although it is very old-fashioned.

I don't like Juliet in scene 2, however she is beautiful.

You can watch the video again in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py5YPJGCtpg

You can read the text from the whole scene here http://www.shakespeare-online.com/plays/balconyscene/romeoandjulietbalconyscene.html

HALLOWEEN!!!! 4 ESO

We've watched in class the scary film "The Tell Tale Heart" adapted from Edgar Allan Poe's short story of the same title.

This is the video and, also, some of the activities we have done.

 You can also find here other other animated adaptations of it and a link to the whole text, just in case you would like to read it. Give it a try! It's not long and very scary....

Activities -->

What do you expect to find in a horror story?

Watch the adaptation from Poe's tale and order the sentences as they appear in the film.

_____ True, I'm nervous , very very dreadfully nervous, but why would you say that I am mad?

_____ Yes, yes, I did it.

_____ He had never harmed me.

_____ A scream, my own gentlemen, a childish dream. But, come in, please.

_____ I think, I think it was his eye.

_____ Nothing out of place here.

_____ For an hour I didn't move a muscle.

_____ Of course I had to get rid of the eye.

_____ But there were still work to be done.

_____ Still I waited while time slowed, stopped, end out.

Write a sentence with each word relating it to the story.

Example: old man The narrator lived with an old man.

gold                                                           eye                                           seven days

the beating of the heart.                       a scream                                  the police

floor                                                         jail                                            mad

Poe was a symbolist writer. What do you think the beating of the heart stands for?

Voluntary work: Write a short horror story (about 100 -150 lines)

Write a summary of “The Tell Tale Heart” (about 100 -150 lines)

Poe's biography

"The Tell Tale Heart"

Other adaptations of "The Tell Tale Heart"

And now you can have FUN watching poor Edgar Allan Poe's auditions for his own TV show. Humiliating!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke5KQ-MMGjg 

HALLOWEEN!!!! 3 ESO

HALLOWEEN PROJECT

3rd ESO

INTRODUCTION

Halloween is an old tradition from north of Europe (Ireland and Europe). The pumpkin, costumes and sweets sometimes have a strange origin.

TASK

It is Halloween next week and you want to explain your friends this tradition. To do that, you have to find information to know as much as possible about this foreign tradition. You have to include:

1. A Halloween glossary. (15 words)
2. When is Halloween celebrated?
3. Where this word derives from?
4. What do children do with pumpkins in Halloween?
5. The origin of the tradition ‘Trick or Treat’.

PROCESS

• You can work in groups of four.
  

• Select from the web pages only the appropriate information demanded.

• Use images and pictures.

• Present your task in a written dossier.

RESOURCES

http://www.halloween-website.com/history.htm

http://www.jackolanterns.net/historyofhalloween.htm

http://www.kico4u.de/english/topicotw/halloween.htm

http://www.isabelperez.com/pdf/HalloweenVocab.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween

(en castellano) http://www.portalmix.com/halloween/calabaza.shtml
(en castellano) http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween#Truco_o_trato

EVALUATION

For the final evaluation, the teacher will take into account the following points:

	POOR	GOOD	EXCELLENT
WRITING	You have a lot of important grammatical and spelling errors	You have an average number of grammatical and spelling errors. Some of them are important.	You have very few grammatical or spelling errors. None of them are very important.
PRESENTATION	The project doesn't look nice. You have organized the information in a messy way. You haven't included any pictures.	The project looks nice. You haven't organized the information very clearly. You have included some pictures, but they aren't very well situated or selected.	The project looks nice and well presented. You have organized the information in a good manner and you have included some pictures that make your project more attractive.
GROUP WORK	Your work shows that you haven't cooperated and supported each other.	Your work shows that you have cooperated with each other, although it is obvious that some of you have worked less than others.	Your work shows that you have cooperated very well and that you all have supported each other.

CONCLUSION

By doing this Webquest you should have learnt:

• To use the Internet to search information.

• To work in groups and share information to reach an agreement.

• New vocabulary related to Halloween.