Warm-Up(Low-Stakes Writing)

• Agree or Disagree: Love can blind you to reality

• Use rhetorical appeals to develop your position. Use examples and evidence to defend it.

• How might today’s warm-up connect to the objective?

Content Language Objective

• Students analyze in writing how and why characters behave as they do using citation language (Juliet says, Shakespeare writes, Romeo claims) after completing text-dependent questions

ACT II, Scene I

• Chorus• Romeo• Benvolio• Mercutio

ACT II, Scene I

• What does Romeo do to his friends?• What does Mercutio think is going on with

Romeo? Why is he annoyed?

ACT II, Scene II

• Romeo• Juliet• Nurse

Quotations

• “O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name. Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love And I’ll no longer be a Capulet.”

• Explain what Juliet is saying in this quotation

Quotations

• “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”

ACT II, Scene II

• Juliet is worried that Romeo will think she is _____________________.

• What plan do Romeo and Juliet make?

Quotations

• Find another quote that stuck out to you. • Explain what the quote means• Explain why you chose it• Share with a partner

ACT II, Scene III

• Friar• Romeo

ACT II, Scene III

• Who is Friar Laurence? What is his hobby?• Why is he angry with Romeo? Why does he

agree to help?

ACT II, Scene IV

• Mercutio• Benvolio• Romeo• Nurse• Peter

ACT II, Scene IV

• Why is Mercutio angry?• Why is the Nurse there?• How does Mercutio treat her?• What is the plan that Romeo tells her?

ACT II, Scene V

• Juliet• Nurse

ACT II, Scene V

• What does the Nurse tell Juliet?

ACT II, Scene VI

• Friar• Romeo• Juliet

ACT II, Scene VI

• What happens in this scene?

Quiz

“These violent delights have violent ends,And in their triumph die; like fire and powderWhich as they kiss consume:”

What is the meaning of this quote? What does it foreshadow? How does this show that Friar Lawrence is different than the rest of the characters in Romeo and Juliet?