Directions: In Romeo and Juliet, the title characters fall in love and have many obstacles to overcome, ultimately leading to their tragic deaths. Their deaths unite the feuding families, however, making the ending both sweet and sorrowful. For your Performance Task, write a personal narrative in which you tell a story which happened to you (or someone you know), relating to the topic of love and “Sweet Sorrow.” For this personal narrative (story), choose to represent love through one of the following themes:

Love as a fairy tale or fantasy

Love as loss or rejection

Love as security and safety

Love as a positive (or negative) force

Love as a roller coaster ride

Use the information that you have gathered throughout this packet to help you complete your Performance Task. If you are stuck or need additional help, please see your site’s

teacher or tutor.

Performance Task Brainstorming

Which theme relates most to you? Highlight or underline one option. Love as…

A fairy tale or fantasy

Loss or rejection

Security and safety

A positive force

A negative force

A roller coaster ride

Who are the main characters in your story? Describe them.

1.

2.

3.

When did this story take place?

What happened?

Beginning

Middle

End

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Pl read these paragraphs from the excerpt. every great play teaches many lessons and touches nearly all social problems. but the great play does this by indirection. every beautiful thought is a teacher; every noble line speaks to the brain and heart. beauty, proportion, melody suggest moral beauty, proportion in conduct and melody in life. in a great play the relations of the various characters, their objects, the means adopted for their accomplishment, must suggest, and in a certain sense solve or throw light on many social problems, so that the drama teaches lessons, discusses social problems and gives intellectual pleasure. the stage should not be dogmatic; neither should its object be directly to enforce a moral. the great thing for the drama to do, and the great thing it has done, and is doing, is to cultivate the imagination. this is of the utmost importance. the civilization of man depends upon the development, not only of the intellect, but of the imagination. most crimes of violence are committed by people who are destitute of imagination. people without imagination make most of the cruel and infamous creeds. they were the persecutors and destroyers of their fellow-men. by cultivating the imagination, the stage becomes one of the greatest teachers. it produces the climate in which the better feelings grow; it is the home of the ideal. all beautiful things tend to the civilization of man. the great statues plead for proportion in life, the great symphonies suggest the melody of conduct, and the great plays cultivate the heart and brain. which statement describes how ingersoll uses a literary technique in his response? a-by using symbols, ingersoll explains the role of artistic expression, which engages readers. b- by using a metaphor, ingersoll explains how artistic thoughts address social issues, which clarifies his idea. c- by using allusion, ingersoll emphasizes the continued growth of artistic expression, which is relatable to readers. d- by using alliteration, ingersoll emphasizes the role drama plays in society, which evokes strong emotion.

Read this excerpt from "hope, despair, and memory" and answer the question. and yet it is surely human to forget, even to want to forget. the ancients saw it as a divine gift. indeed if memory us to survive, forgetting allows us to go on living. how could we go on with our daily lives, if we remained constantly aware of the dangers and ghosts surrounding us? the talmud tells us that without the ability to forget, man would soon cease to learn. without the ability to forget, man would live in a permanent, paralyzing fear of death. only god and god alone can and must remember everything. which of the following demonstrates one of the metaphors and its meaning in the above excerpt? forgetting = a divine gift forgetting = danger remembering = ability to learn remembering = a divine gift

Need ! compare and contrast your independent reading selection with one or two other selections you have read in this unit. support your response with at least two pieces of evidence from your independent reading selection. be sure to give the title and author of your selection.