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Romeo and Juliet Acts 4-5 Reading Guide Notebook Check Name _________________#_____ Due Date________________ 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Eulogy (40 points)
Romeo and Juliet Acts 4-5 Reading Guide Notebook Check
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ROMEO AND JULIET Character List Character List Act 4 Scene 1
Stage Directions Friar Laurence Paris Juliet Character List Act 4 Scene 2
Stage Directions Capulet Second Servant
Nurse Juliet Lady Capulet Character List Act 4 Scene 3
Stage Directions Juliet Lady Capulet Character List Act 4 Scene 4
Stage Directions Lady Capulet Nurse Capulet First Servant Second Servant
Character List Act 4 Scene 5
Stage Directions Nurse Lady Capulet Capulet Friar Laurence Paris First Musician Peter Second Musician
Character List Act 5 Scene 1
Stage Directions Romeo Balthasar Apothecary Character List Act 5 Scene 2
Stage Directions Friar John Friar Laurence Character List Act 5 Scene 3
Stage Directions Paris Page Romeo Balthasar Friar Laurence Juliet First Watchman Second Watchman Third Watchman Prince Capulet
Lady Capulet Montague
Notebook Check 1 ROMEO AND JULIET Act IV Reading Guide
I. LITERARY TERMS: Define each term. Be sure you can identify them in the text.
1. Dramatic Irony: _________________________________________________________________________
2. Comic Relief: __________________________________________________________________________
3. Puns:_________________________________________________________________________________
II. QUESTIONS: Answer the following questions. Scene 1: 1. Why is Friar Laurence reluctant to marry Paris to Juliet? 2. How does Paris explain the sudden haste of the marriage plans? 3. What is ironic about the conversation between Juliet and Paris? 4. If Friar Laurence cannot help her, what does Juliet threaten to do? 5. Why does Friar Laurence think that Juliet will accept his plan? 6. Describe the friar’s plan for Juliet. Scene 2: 7. What does Juliet say that makes her father happy? 8. How does Capulet change the wedding plans? What implication does this have? Scene 3: 9. How does Juliet show her maturity and independence in this scene? 10. If the potion does not work, what will Juliet do? 11. What are some of the fears Juliet has about the potion? Scene 4: 12. What is happening in this brief scene?
Scene 5: 1. Describe the imagery Shakespeare uses in describing Juliet’s “death”? 2. What does Friar Laurence say to comfort the Capulet family? 3. What event are the Capulet’s now preparing for?
Romeo and Juliet Act IV Character Quotes
Act IV Timeline
Who Said it in Act IV?
“The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade
to wanny ashes, they eyes’ windows fall
like death when he shuts up the day of life…”
“ My heart is wondrous light,
since this same wayward girl is so reclaimed.”
“I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins
that almost freezes up the heat of life.”
“Death lies on her like an untimely frost
upon the sweetest flower of all the field.”
“O day, O day, O day! O hateful day!
Never was seen so black a day as this.
O woeful day! O woeful day!”
Act 4
TUESDAY MORNING
TUESDAY NOON
TUESDAY NIGHT
EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING
Notebook Check 2 ROMEO AND JULIET Act V Reading Guide
I. LITERARY TERMS: Define each term. Be sure you can identify them in the text.
1. Tragedy: ____________________________________________________________________________________
2. Fate: _________________________________________________________________________________________
3. Motive: ______________________________________________________________________________________ II. QUESTIONS: Answer the following questions. Scene 1: 1. What news does Balthasar bring Romeo?
2. What does Romeo mean when he says, “Then I defy you, stars!”?
3. What actions does Balthasar’s news prompt Romeo to do?
Scene 2: 4. What does Friar John tell Friar Laurence?
5. After hearing this news from Friar John, what does Friar Laurence intend to do?
Scene 3: 6. Why is Paris at Juliet’s tomb?
7. Romeo gives Balthasar two reasons for entering the Capulet’s tomb. What are those two reasons?
8. Why does Paris think that Romeo has come to the tomb? 9. Paraphrase: ROMEO In faith, I will. Let me peruse this face. Mercutio's kinsman, noble County Paris! What said my man, when my betossed soul Did not attend him as we rode? I think He told me Paris should have married Juliet: Said he not so? or did I dream it so? Or am I mad, hearing him talk of Juliet, To think it was so? O, give me thy hand, One writ with me in sour misfortune's book! I'll bury thee in a triumphant grave; A grave? O no! a lantern, slaughter'd youth, For here lies Juliet, and her beauty makes This vault a feasting presence full of light. Death, lie thou there, by a dead man interr'd. [Laying PARIS in the tomb] How oft when men are at the point of death Have they been merry! which their keepers call A lightning before death: O, how may I Call this a lightning? O my love! my wife! Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty: Thou art not conquer'd; beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advanced there. Tybalt, liest thou there in thy bloody sheet? O, what more favour can I do to thee, Than with that hand that cut thy youth in twain To sunder his that was thine enemy? Forgive me, cousin! Ah, dear Juliet, Why art thou yet so fair? shall I believe That unsubstantial death is amorous, And that the lean abhorred monster keeps Thee here in dark to be his paramour? For fear of that, I still will stay with thee; And never from this palace of dim night Depart again: here, here will I remain With worms that are thy chamber-maids; O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest, And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss A dateless bargain to engrossing death! Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavoury guide! Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on The dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary bark! Here's to my love! [Drinks} O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die. [Dies]
a-)Summarize the lines
b-) Who are the speakers?
c-) What are the stage directions?
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10. What is it about Juliet that should have told Romeo that she was not dead?
11. Why doesn’t Friar Laurence stay in the tomb with Juliet after she awakens?
12. Paraphrase: JULIET Go, get thee hence, for I will not away.
Exit FRIAR LAURENCE
What's here? a cup, closed in my true love's hand? Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end: O churl! drunk all, and left no friendly drop To help me after? I will kiss thy lips; Haply some poison yet doth hang on them, To make die with a restorative.
Kisses him
Thy lips are warm. First Watchman [Within] Lead, boy: which way? JULIET Yea, noise? then I'll be brief. O happy dagger!
Snatching ROMEO's dagger This is thy sheath;
Stabs herself there rust, and let me die.
Falls on ROMEO's body, and dies
a-)Summarize the lines
b-) Who are the speakers?
c-) What are the stage directions?
13. Why does Juliet kiss Romeo after he is dead?
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14. When Montague first arrives on the scene, what does he tell those gathered?
15. Relate the events that lead to Romeo and Juliet’s death as they are told by Friar Laurence near the play’s end. 16. What information does Romeo’s letter give?
Enter Watch, with the Page of PARIS PRINCE This letter doth make good the friar's words, Their course of love, the tidings of her death: And here he writes that he did buy a poison Of a poor 'pothecary, and therewithal Came to this vault to die, and lie with Juliet. Where be these enemies? Capulet! Montague! See, what a scourge is laid upon your hate, That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love. And I for winking at your discords too Have lost a brace of kinsmen: all are punish'd. CAPULET O brother Montague, give me thy hand: This is my daughter's jointure, for no more Can I demand. MONTAGUE But I can give thee more: For I will raise her statue in pure gold; That while Verona by that name is known, There shall no figure at such rate be set As that of true and faithful Juliet. CAPULET As rich shall Romeo's by his lady's lie; Poor sacrifices of our enmity! PRINCE A glooming peace this morning with it brings; The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head: Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things; Some shall be pardon'd, and some punished: For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
Exeunt
a-)Summarize the lines
b-) Who are the speakers?
c-) What are the stage directions?
17. How do Montague and Capulet plan to honor the memories of their children?
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ROMEO AND JULIET ACT V Character Quotes
Act V Timeline
Who Said It in Act V?
“O comfortable friar! where is my lord?
I do remember well where I should be,
And there I am. Where is my Romeo?(155)”
“Is it e'en so? Then I defy you, stars!
Thou knowest my lodging. Get me ink and paper(25)
And hire posthorses. I will hence to-night.”
“Unhappy fortune! By my brotherhood,
The letter was not nice, but full of charge,
Of dear import; and the neglecting it
May do much danger. Friar John, go hence,(20)
Get me an iron crow and bring it straight
Unto my cell.”
“This is that banish'd haughty Montague
That murdered my love's cousin—with which grief(50)
It is supposed the fair creature died—“
“As I remember, this should be the house.
Being holiday, the beggar's shop is shut.
What, ho! apothecary! “
Act 5
THURSDAY LATE AT NIGHT
Notebook Check 3 Analyzing Theme/Decision Making in Romeo and Juliet
Examine the situations below and list other choices that Romeo or Juliet could have made. In the third column, list the results of their actual choices.
After examining Romeo and Juliet’s decisions, what pattern or consistent course of action do you notice? Do you think that Romeo and Juliet are in part responsible for the tragedy that befalls them? Explain.
Situation and Choice Character’s Other Options Direct Result of Character’s Choice
Tybalt challenges Romeo to a duel. Romeo refuses to fight and then tries to prevent Mercutio and Tybalt from killing each other
Romeo could have:
Juliet is told that she must marry Paris. To prevent this, Juliet follows the Friar’s advice and fakes her own death.
Juliet could have:
Romeo hears a report of Juliet’s death. He rushes to her tomb to commit suicide.
Romeo could have:
Theme To understand what insight about haste or urgency can be found in the play, add four additional examples of characters speaking or acting hastily to the cluster. Review your details, then write a single sentence that expresses Shakespeare’s
theme about haste in Romeo and Juliet.
What do the characters think and say about love? How does their haste affect the action and the outcome of the play. Write the theme about haste below.
HASTE
Romeo falls in love with Juliet
and forgets Rosaline in an
instant.
Lady Capulet insists that it is time for Juliet
to marry.
Tybalt wants to kill Romeo the instant he sees
him.
Notebook Check 4 Journal Entries Act IV
Act V
Notebook Check 5 The Court of Verona: Some Shall Be Punished
In the last speech of the play, the Prince announces that “some shall be pardon’d, and some punished.” Soon the day of reckoning will come, and the Prince has ordered that all in Verona prepare for testimony that answers the question: who killed Romeo and Juliet?
Step 1: Brainstorm a list of all who played a role in Romeo and Juliet’s death and why they have responsibility.
Step 2: Create a pie chart in the circle below indicating what proportion of the responsibility for The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet you would assign to fate and what proportions you would assign to Romeo, Juliet, and other characters.
Step 3: After hearing all of the evidence presented, who do you feel is the most to blame for the outcome and why? Be thorough. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Notebook Check 6 The Eulogy Project In light of the recent tragedy, we have all been asked to attend a mass funeral for the deceased. Six characters have died, and we must honor their memories. Not only have we been asked to attend the funeral, we have been asked to deliver their eulogies. A eulogy is a speech or writing that shows high praise for someone. Content: The eulogy should discuss things like:
How he/she died Why we should miss him/her How he/she was wronged. What he/she represented in life
Personal Information
Person’s Age
Family – marriage(s), children, parents, pets
Work/Career
Hobbies and free time activities
Places lived
Offices held in government, professional or community organizations
Military service
Special life events
Special accomplishments, achievements and awards
Additional Notable Information
Beliefs, cherished values
Life philosophies
Poems, quotes, or letters written by the deceased (as a way of bringing her or her own voice into the service)
Special poems, quotes, passages or verses Reminisces and Recollections
Family and friends’ stories and anecdotes
Colleagues’ stores and anecdotes
Favorite quotes, expressions of the deceased
Tips:
o Talk about the deceased in an honest and loving way o Try not to be negative o Have water/tissue on hand o Be uplifting, inspiring and even humorous o Check your facts o Speak slowly and clearly o Have a thoughtful, uplifting ending
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