english_9_lm_draft

YOUR DISCOVERY TASKS
Task 8: SGD
Group yourselves into five and do the following activity
A. News Flash: Suppose you were a reporter and your beat is to cover a crime
report and you decided to make a news report about the Tragedy in Verona
concerning the ill-fated lovers Romeo and Juliet.
B. Dance: Design a costume, select the music and perform an interpretive dance
about a secret wedding. Turn in a paragraph explaining what you are trying to
convey (how does your costume, music and choreography capture important
events and themes of the act?).
C. Song performance: Write and perform an original rap or song, including lyrics
and music for the wedding of Romeo and Juliet.
D. Mural Painting: Create a timeline highlighting the feud between the two
families resulting in the untimely death of the two young lovers.
E. Push A Pencil: Reorganize the summary of the last scene of the play,
“Romeo and Juliet.” Write it in a different form like a newspaper article, a novel
chapter, a diary entry, a sonnet, or a letter.
YOUR FINAL TASK
Task 9.Director’s promptbook
SGD
Group 1 Act Three, Scene One: More Trouble
Group 2 Act Four, Scene One: Father Lawrence’s Medicine
Group 3 Act Three, Scene Four: Lord Capulet’s Plan
Group 4 Act Five, Scene One: News from Verona
Group 5 Act Four, Scene Three: Juliet Drinks the Medicine
DRAFT
April 10, 2014
Photocopy the scene and write specific stage directions onto it. These
should include choices for directing actors’ sound (emphasis, volume,
pacing) and movement (gesture, posture and stance, blocking).
Write 2-3 paragraphs (“A Note to the Actor Playing Romeo,” for example)
as if you are a director of a scene to give general guidelines about the
performance of these characters.