Thursday March 28 th 2019 Common Core Standards

Thursday, March 28 th, 2019 Common Core Standards: RL. 9 -10. 1, RL 9 -10. 3, RL 9 -10. 4, RL 9 -10. 5, L 9 -1. 5 a Aim: How can we analyze the actions of both Romeo and the friar in Act II, Scene III ? Objective: Students will be able to evaluate the character of Friar Lawrence and his importance in the play. Do Now: Answer one of the following questions. 1. ) What are the responsibilities of a priest? What do they do? OR 2. ) What role do your friends and family play in your friendships/relationships, if any?

Thursday, March 28 th, 2019 Common Core Standards: RL. 9 -10. 1, RL 9 -10. 3, RL 9 -10. 4, RL 9 -10. 5, L 9 -1. 5 a Aim: How can we analyze the actions of both Romeo and the friar in Act II, Scene III? Objective: Students will be able to evaluate the character of Friar Lawrence and his importance in the play. Agenda 1. ) Do Now: Answer one or both questions, turn and talk with your tablemates. Captains will prepare to share with the class. 2. ) Mini-Lesson: Recall important events that will affect the action of today’s reading. Together we will finish up Act II, Scene III of Romeo and Juliet. We will be stopping occasionally to decipher important passages, character choices, and events that take place in order to get a better understanding of the complex text. 3. ) Reflection: Group Questions, choose 3 out of the 5 questions to reflect upon today’s reading.

Literary Techniques - What literary techniques has Shakespeare used so far? - Foreshadowing (Death of Romeo and Juliet) - Metaphors (Romeo calling Juliet a shrine, extended metaphor) - Similes (“My bounty is as boundless as the dea, my love as deep) - Imagery ("With purple fountains issuing from your veins") - Personification (“old desire doth in his deathbed lie”) - Dramatic Irony (We know Romeo doesn’t like Rosaline anymore) - If you were arranging a secret marriage, who would you go to first? Why would you go to these people? - In today’s scene we meet Friar Lawrence, the person Romeo goes to.

Enter Friar Lawrence - If you answered the second do now question tell me again, what does a priest do? - Friar Lawrence is a member of a religious group that usually gave up material possessions, lived in simple houses/monasteries, and grew their own food. The friars served as priests to the Montague and Capulet families; they would hear confessions, perform marriages, and conduct funerals. - We are first introduced to Friar Lawrence, a minor character who will have a great role in the play. What can we learn about him and his personality? - Friar Lawrence speaks with contradictory statements such as “smiles” and “frowns”, “streaks of light” and “flecked darkness”, and “tomb” and “womb”. When he is doing this it is to bring attention to the duality of nature and human-nature, that it can both give life and destroy it. Take a look at the last lines “Stumbling on abuse. Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, ”

Nature Talk - Friar Lawrence seems to be talking a lot about nature, duality, and good and evil. What is the point of this? - In lines 24 - 30 the friar is talking about how plants are capable of both good and evil, that they can heal with their medicinal powers, but also capable of hurting you with its poison. What does this reveal about the friar? What does it reveal about how he thinks of people? - With this information we can assume that the friar is very spiritual as he believes in the powers of goodness and evil, he must be spiritual as he is a friar, and he must be quite knowledgeable in terms of his understanding of plants/nature. He says that good can lead to bad if it loses its purpose and evil can sometimes be good. How can this warning be applied to Romeo and Juliet? - He may be foreshadowing that the love between the two might seem like a good thing at first (the good of the rose), but it might have consequences (its poison).

Enter Romeo - What is the immediate reaction Friar Lawrence has upon seeing Romeo? - Friar Lawrence asks Romeo what’s wrong. “Young son, it argues a distempered head so soon to bid good morrow to thy bed. ” If you’re up this early getting out of bed to see me something has to be the matter. What does it suggest? - “You’re right I am troubled, ” responds Romeo and says that he enjoyed a sweeter rest than sleep. Friar Lawrence mentions Rosaline. What does this imply and what is this an example of? - - It shows us that Romeo and Friar Lawrence know each other and are friends, and Romeo felt comfortable telling the friar about his feelings. The friar clearly knew that Romeo had feelings for Rosaline and he thought he was with her. We know more than the friar does. This is an example of what? What is Romeo’s reaction up hearing Rosaline’s name? “Rosaline? No. I don’t remember that name and the sadness it brought me”

The Truth is Out! - The friar is confused since Romeo isn’t talking about Rosaline and asks that he explain himself. - Romeo doesn’t make things any clearer for the friar. Romeo says he has been “feasting with the enemy” and that he has been “wounded” by that said enemy. To the friar, Romeo has been speaking in riddles, and he seems lost because he doesn’t know what we know. - Romeo comes clean and reveals his intentions in being there. He states how he has fallen in love with the daughter of Lord Capulet, that she loves him, and that he is there because he wants the friar to marry them. - The friar is initially shocked because of how devoted Romeo seemed to be towards Rosaline and how sad Romeo was over the fact that she didn’t return his feelings, yet Romeo comes in here asking him to marry the two. Understandable. - Identify the lines where the friar makes his decision and what reasons does he say he’ll help. “In one respect I’ll thy assistant be/ for this alliance may so happy prove/ to turn your households’ rancor to pure love. ” Apart from wanting to help Romeo he thinks that the marriage might end the family feud!

Group Work Choose and answer three questions in complete sentences. 1) What is Romeo’s purpose in going to see Friar Laurence? 2) What is the Friar's attitude toward life and nature? 3) Give two reasons the friar decided to marry Romeo and Juliet. 4) How did he react upon hearing Romeo’s declaration of love? 5) What themes are developing and plot developments have occured in this scene? Provide textual evidence.