Pre-reading: shakespeare research
Reading Shakespeare begins with knowing who Shakespeare was. Use the ThingLink Webquest to access the resources you need to successfully complete your Shakespeare Research Quest.
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Romeo & Juliet - character and theme analysis
While reading, you're completing LRJ style notes to analyze for Character and Theme. Choose one of the forums below. Once you're in that forum, choose "Start a Topic." You must identify the character or theme you're addressing, and you must USE a piece of textual evidence in your posting. You may NOT repeat text used in previous postings. There are multiple characters you can focus on, so find something significant elsewhere if what you had in mind has been used!
This means, you must:
Your choices for focusing your analysis include:
Character Analysis
Theme Analysis
This means, you must:
- NAME the character analyzing
- IDENTIFY the specific THEME you're addressing
- Lead into the text
- Use the text
- Cite the text
- Explain why the text is significant to what you've chosen to focus on
Your choices for focusing your analysis include:
Character Analysis
- Internal conflict
- External conflict
- SIGNIFICANT character relationships
Theme Analysis
- State the theme ("People should..." or "People should not...")
- It should be relevant to the story as a whole up to the point you've read.
Romeo & Juliet Smore Page analysis
By the end of our reading of "Romeo & Juliet," you'll have looked at various characters and themes in a multitude of ways. You will be assigned a specific aspect of a character to analyze throughout the play, while assigning a theme to your analysis and locating textual evidence to support each part. With this information, you will create a Smore page for your character and theme.
Below are the instructions for completing the Smore, once you've received your assigned character, and you'll find an example for Prince Escalus: External Conflict. Clearly, this will not be one of your options, but you can see how the instructions transfer to the product!
Below are the instructions for completing the Smore, once you've received your assigned character, and you'll find an example for Prince Escalus: External Conflict. Clearly, this will not be one of your options, but you can see how the instructions transfer to the product!
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