05.21 - Romeo and Juliet: On the Balcony

We started class today with the following writing prompt:

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After everyone had a chance to respond to this prompt, I listed various ages and people moved to one side of the room or the other based on whether they agreed or disagreed that that was an acceptable age to be married. I recorded the different groups' positions (see chart below).

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Following this discussion, we discussed the following two questions (class response data below):

How long is a good amount of time to date before getting married?

What age is the best to start focusing on getting married?

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Following this discussion, we transitioned to these ideas in Romeo and Juliet where Juliet is nearly 14 and Romeo is a little older (he is described by other characters as "young") and the two don't really date. Juliet and Romeo don't date given the situation between their families, but also because the idea of romantic love vs. arranged marriage was not as significant as it is in our culture today. With this background information we began looking at the balcony scene from Act II, scene ii of Romeo and Juliet.

Everyone then had a few minutes to meet with their partner and refresh the lines from their portion of Act II, scene ii that they worked on in class. Partners read these lines through together three times. We then went out in the hall and used the back stairwell as a balcony and began doing a run through of this scene.

Homework:

Review and become familiar your selection of Romeo and Juliet. We will be acting these scenes out tomorrow in class.

Complete or revise any assignments scoring below a 3.

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