DC Exploration Series Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet Study Guide with Resources
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Discover the Ultimate Study Guide for Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
This comprehensive resource is designed to bring Shakespeare’s timeless play to life, offering everything you need to study Romeo and Juliet intensively:
- Full Text of the Play: Immerse yourself in the complete text of Romeo and Juliet
- Extensive Introduction to Shakespeare: Gain a deeper understanding of the Bard and his works.
- Guide to Shakespearean Language: Navigate the complexities of Elizabethan English with ease.
- Detailed Literary Content: Explore rich analyses and accessible summaries.
- Diverse Content-Related Questions: Engage with short questions and literary essay prompts, both act-specific and general.
- Challenging Enrichment Tasks: Push your understanding further with thought-provoking activities.
- Workbook: Includes highly engaging worksheets on every scene in Romeo and Juliet.
Layout of This Resource Book
The book begins with a Synopsis and Timeline of Romeo and Juliet, providing an overview of the entire play. We then delve into various Themes, Figurative Language, Characters, Symbols, and Motifs. Additionally, we explore how Romeo and Juliet relates in a South Africa context.
This is then broken down in the various Acts within Shakespeare.
Each Act starts with a Summary of each Scene, followed by the Full Text of the Play for that Act, and then a comprehensive Analysis of the Act.
This is then be followed by a Workbook for each Act which features highly engaging worksheets on every scene in Romeo and Juliet, divided into sections that invite students to engage with the text in various ways:
- Passage Analysis: Analyse key passages from each scene.
- Evidence Hunt: Answer interpretive questions by finding the best textual evidence.
- Comparing Quotations: Make connections between quotations from different scenes.
- Discussion Questions: Foster lively discussions and interpretive debates.
- Quick Writes: Compose short arguments supported by textual evidence, leading to keen interpretive insights.
- Figurative Language Quiz: Identify types of figurative language used across quotations from Romeo and Juliet, with a glossary and answer key included.
Following the workbook sections, you’ll find:
- Analytical Writing Assignment with a Sample Essay: Challenge students to write an analytical paper on Romeo and Juliet, with sample topics, a writing schedule, an outline template, and a grading rubric.
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