Hello English 1 students!

Here is the agenda for today:

1.  Folder set up and instructions

2. Act I vocabulary

3. Romeo and Juliet: prologue reading and discussion

HW: Please respond to the following nine questions on the prologue for Romeo and Juliet: 

Romeo and Juliet: The Prologue       DUE WEDNESDAY

1.              What is the setting of the play?

2.              How do the two families feel about eachother?

3.              What does Shakespeare mean by “star-crossed lovers”?

4.              What happens to the lovers?

5.              What is the play going to be about?

6.              What does the chorus ask the audience to do in the last two lines?  Why?

7.              What is the name of the poetic form that Shakespeare uses for the prologue?  How many lines are there?

8.              What is the rhyme scheme?

9.              Give me three examples of alliteration (the repetition of consonant sounds in a line of poetry).