Help with romeo and juliet What did you like about the play “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare? What did you not like? What about the two film renditions, Zefirelli’s “Romeo and Juliet” from 1968 and the one directed by Baz Luhrmann (1996)? What did you like and not like about each?

If you could change the play’s ending, would you do that and if so, how?

Do you think you have learned more facts or more vocabulary during this unit? Explain.

Do you feel you have improved any reading skills during this unit? Examples of reading skills: skimming, scanning, (reading for) language analysis, (reading for) understanding effects.

Did you have any problems or difficulties and how did you solve them?

Did this unit give you any new ideas about yourself? Did you discover something new about yourself by completing this unit?

If you could change something about the unit, what would it be? Any new ideas for related activities?

Match each excerpt to the correct stanza structure. 1. it was many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea, that a maiden there lived whom you may know by the name of annabel lee; and this maiden she lived with no other thought than to love and be loved by me. (from "annabel lee" by edgar allan poe) 2. o thou, new-year, delaying long, delayest the sorrow in my blood, that longs to burst a frozen bud and flood a fresher throat with song. (from "in memoriam" by alfred lord tennyson) 3. nature’s first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold. her early leaf’s a flower but only so an hour. then leaf subsides to leaf. so eden sank to grief,; so dawn goes down to day. nothing gold can stay. (from "nothing gold can stay" by robert frost) 4. at sestos hero dwelt; hero the fair, whom young apollo courted for her hair, and offered as a dower his burning throne, where she should sit for men to gaze upon. the outside of her garments were of lawn, the lining purple silk, with gilt stars drawn; (from "hero and leander" by christopher marlowe) quatrain couplet octave sestet