Violent Delights and Violent Ends: Romeo and Juliet
Teacher Phil Coogan
| Year
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NCEA Level
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Duration
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| 12
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2
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4 weeks
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| Achievement Standard being assessed
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Achievement criteria
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| AS90374 (English 2.7): Deliver a presentation using oral and visual language techniques
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- Communicate straightforward ideas.
- Use appropriate oral and visual language and presentation techniques for a specific audience and purpose.
- Present material clearly.
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| Processes
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| Exploring Language
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Teacher background reading
Teaching and learning activities
Select and adapt these learning activities to best meet the needs of your students, and to fit the time available:
Learning task 1: Pre-reading
Learning task 2: During reading
Learning task 3: Post reading
Links for students
Webquests:
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Rewriting Romeo and Juliet
This webquest asks students to translate a scene from the play to one of these time periods - the Wild West, Mob-ridden Chicago, 50s Suburbia, and the 1960 Counterculture.
Assessment
Option 1
In groups students perform for an audience an extract from a scene. They should demonstrate their understandings of characters, ideas and language utilising visual, verbal and dramatic features. The assessment schedule provides explicit guidance to students on what is expected from them in this task.
assessment_activity (RTF 31KB)
assessment (RTF 7KB)
exemplars (RTF 200KB)
Option 2 - Rich talk
eng2_7Cv3_30april03 (PDF 137KB)
involves students preparing and delivering an important section of a play as a dramatic performance, highlighting a problem faced by a character.
Option 3 - Unit Standard 12425
This activity could also provide evidence for students to gain credit for Unit Standard 12425 Present Moving Images Combining Visual and Verbal Features. An assessment task for this unit standard, based upon the aspects of the curriculum which are the focus of this unit, is available in the Level 2 English Assessment Guide (Will Power Part 3: Performance).
Another model, for which partial evidence for unit standard 8827 Perform Interpretations of Poetic Text is generated, is Step Into Those Shoes, also in the Level 2 Assessment Guide.
This Assessment Guide contains other unit standard based assessment possibilities based upon studying either the play or the film of Romeo and Juliet:
- Stylishly Shakespearean
- Will Power Part 1: Close Reading
- Will Power Part 2: Essay
Option 4 - External Examination
If revising for an examination have students identify and comment on the importance of the list of important
quotations (RTF 6KB)
from the play.
RESOURCES
Electronic
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William Shakespeare: The Complete Works
This is a very comprehensive site with links to the complete works including background information, biographical information and pictures, information about Elizabethan theatres, a Shakespearean dictionary, the first folio, quotes, a quiz and a discussion forum.
- The Shakespearean Homework Helper
- Surfing with the Bard
- Cliffnotes Quiz
- Much Ado About Something
- Artsedge:Romeo and Juliet
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In Search of Shakespeare
A PBS resource to support the television series which includes, teaching resources, a playwright game and information on Shakespeare's life and times.
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Converse: Shakespearean Resources
Some excellent interactive resources to support the study of Shakespeare, including an animated depiction of the experience of viewing a Shakespearean play, an interactive 3D version of the Globe,plot questions on several plays, Shakespeare's insults and more.
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No Fear Shakespeare
A site which presents the language of Shakespeare's plays side-by-side with a facing-page translation into modern English.
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Shakespeare Games
Quizzes on Elizabethan English, Hamlet, memorable quotes and what's in a name?
Print
- Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet
Other
- Film version(s) of Romeo and Juliet.
Follow up
This unit could lead into (or be substituted by) a film study of either or both the Zeffirelli (1968)
or the Lurhman (1997)
films based on the play. Many of the activities in the English Level 2 Assessment Guide would be particularly suitable for this. A useful introductory resource is Shakespeare Illustrated
- a selection of paintings and drawings based upon Romeo and Juliet.
